DTS Play-Fi Now Supports AirPlay 2 and “Works with HomePod”
AirPlay 2 works in conjunction with Amazon Alexa and DTS Play-Fi for an integrated multi-assistant control experience.
DTS, a global leader in high-definition audio solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of Xperi Corporation (Nasdaq: XPER) (“Xperi”), is pleased to announce the availability of AirPlay 2 in select DTS Play-Fi products. AirPlay 2 support is now available on the McIntosh RS200 and Arcam rPlay, with additional products to be announced this year.
AirPlay 2 opens a world of multi-room streaming possibilities. Music playback on AirPlay 2 products can be started via spoken commands to Siri or to a HomePod. Alternatively, users can use spoken commands to add AirPlay 2 speakers into a group with a HomePod or even transfer music playback from the HomePod to other AirPlay 2 products in the home. Apple users have a variety of other ways to access their AirPlay 2 products, including direct streaming from iTunes, iOS, MacOS and AppleTV. The additional network buffering in AirPlay 2 provides greater transmission reliability in cases where Wi-Fi connections are temporarily unavailable or unstable.
“We are thrilled to bring AirPlay 2 into the DTS Play-Fi experience,” said Dannie Lau, general manager, DTS Play-Fi. “With this new ability, our partners can better service Apple users with a feature set that meets their expectations for interoperability with the products they love.”
DTS Play-Fi products supporting AirPlay 2 are also Works with Alexa compatible, allowing household users to choose between Siri or Alexa voice assistants to control the same product. All these features work in conjunction with DTS Play-Fi’s broad array of capabilities, including on-product music presets, wireless surround sound, whole-home TV audio streaming to any DTS Play-Fi product and/or the DTS Play-Fi Headphones app, and 24/192 Hi-Res Audio streaming.
“AirPlay 2 brings multi-room music playback to the Apple ecosystem,” said Nicholas Clarke, senior director, global engineering, luxury audio at Harman. “Combining AirPlay 2 with DTS Play-Fi gives Arcam rPlay customers even more ways to access their product while providing the hi-res streaming audio support they demand.”
Charlie Randall, chief executive officer (CEO) at McIntosh commented, “Supporting AirPlay 2 and Works with Alexa in the RS200 offers choice to our customers with music assistant control. Integrating these protocols with DTS Play-Fi gives the RS200 a sophisticated set of streaming capabilities unmatched by our competitors.”
DTS Play-Fi technology enables lossless multi-room wireless audio streaming on any supported product from the world's most popular music services including Amazon Music, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Juke, KKBox, Napster, Pandora, Qobuz, QQ Music, SiriusXM, Sound Machine, Spotify and TIDAL, thousands of Internet radio stations, as well as personal music libraries. In addition, DTS Play-Fi features advance streaming functionality like wireless surround sound, stereo pairing, music station presets, and audio/video synchronization.
The DTS Play-Fi ecosystem features the largest collection of products in the whole-home wireless audio space, with more than 200 interoperable speakers, sound bars, set-top boxes, and A/V receivers from the top names in premium audio including Aerix, Anthem, Arcam, Audiolab, Definitive Technology, DISH TV, Elite, Integra, Fusion Research, Klipsch, MartinLogan, McIntosh, Mission, Onkyo, Paradigm, Phorus, Pioneer, Polk Audio, Quad, Rotel, Sonus Faber, Soundcast, SVS Sound, Wharfedale, and Wren Sound.
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Comments
Rongdong Feng 08-02-19
hi,
You may want to do something in China like partnering with Xiaomi if you wanted to increase the market share.
Smart speakers are very hot in China but none of them support play-fi. And a search with keyword play-fi on taobao.com - one of the biggest online shopping website in the world - return nothing.
Regards,
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JS Arcand 09-07-19
Great news! Do you know when the Paradigm speakers will be updated?
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Robert Gonzalez 09-15-19
I would also like to know of this is in the works as well. T
I have missing the Apple Music experience on my whole house setup with paradigm p-600’s. Best sounding speaker out there; even prefer to my 800fs only because they remind me of my old 11se mkIII
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DTS Play-Fi 09-16-19
Hello Gents,
We’re in talks with Paradigm on this subject right now for the products that could support it (specifically the units that already support AirPlay 1), but the very next group two brands that should get support will be Rotel and MartinLogan. We’ll provide an update for when this time comes.
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JS Arcand 09-25-19
what’s funny is that the user manual of the pw600 has a mention of the use of the shairport library in the licences page at the end, which would have enabled airport on the devices. There is also an airplay configuration when connecting directly to its ip address, but the airplay functionality was never enabled, or removed in its development. alas…
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DTS Play-Fi 09-25-19
Some Paradigm products do support it, including some PW600s. But as you’ve probably already sussed out, you’ll have to ask them to find out more information.
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Nathan 05-22-20
Paradigm is now advertising support for Airplay on their playfi devices. However, it is not actually working. They seems to indicate it is an error with the play fi app on iOS. Is there a timeline for when that will be fixed? Is this related to the bug whereby playfi devices no longer connect to dlna servers like Plex with dlna enabled?
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DTS Play-Fi 05-24-20
Hey Nathan,
Some sets of the Paradigm products have AirPlay, and some do not. If you don’t see AirPlay selectable in the normal way for the product, and its fully up to date via the Play-Fi software, then it doesn’t support it. This is a essentially a hardware limitation in that some units just weren’t equipped with the AirPlay component needed to activate.
I don’t know how to identify which units have it and don’t unfortunately. I believe there is a serial number range you could potentially ask them about.
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Piotr 07-07-20
Do you know if Definitive Technology is working on AirPlay integration? I have whole home system based on their “W” line of products but it seems that the company forgot about multi-room system.
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