Airplay connections lost after sleeping in Tahoe Mac OS 26

[whitby]

I have a fairly large collection of Airplay devices (7 HomePods, 3 pairs of Sonos speakers and a Naim MuSO II). I have a 24" M1 iMac that is used as our music server is configured to use a number of these devices by default. I play using Apple Music when using this machine. In Sequoia and before I could leave them configured and when I slept the machine and then woke it up later, the Airplay configuration was intact and music would play through the devices without any issue.

Under Sequoia, when I wake the machine and go to Apple Music , the Airplay speakers are shown as connected but when I play the music selected, it plays through the iMac speakers even though they are not shown as selected. In order to get it to work, I have to deselect the Airplay speakers, reselect the iMac and then select the Airplay devices I want to use again. I have tried with and without the Sonos speakers and all HomePods are on the latest release. I complained about this in the beta and it has not been fixed. The behavior is identical on any of my MacBook Pros and Mac Mini M4 Pro. The problem does not occur on my iPhone or iPads. This is a Mac OS issue.

Has anyone else seen this? It has long worked under Sequoia and before with no issues whatsoever.

 

[whitby]

I have filed a bug report with Apple, as I have noticed the same issue on 3 of my friends systems so allowing me to discount local network oddities. Apparently (as of this moment) no one on MacRumors either has the issue or noticed anything.

 

[Imperial926]

I have filed a bug report with Apple, as I have noticed the same issue on 3 of my friends systems so allowing me to discount local network oddities. Apparently (as of this moment) no one on MacRumors either has the issue or noticed anything.

Yes, same here. Thank you for posting. If anything it's even worse after the HomePod firmware update and 26.0.1 minor Tahoe update. Lots of restarting and still defaults to the Mac instead of the chosen AirPlay destination. Since this badly undermines the Apple Music experience I assume it will get sorted fairly quickly.

 

[webbga]

My issue is not with airplay, but air tags. I have seven of them and I have to restart my iPhone before the will search inside the house. If my wife is using the car and has the car keys with her I can see her location, but inside the house i continually get the message to move to a different location even when I am right overt the air tag. A hard reset temporarily fixes the situation, but it returns within a short period of time.