topic Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay in Desktop (Mac)

Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

blacknotes — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:25:33 GMT

I'm trying to play music on an Apple TV via AirPlay (audio only, not mirroring). The audio often stutters. I'm using Spotify Premium.

The Mac and Apple TV are connected to the same home WiFi network. The WiFi network is not busy and my broadband is quite fast (>50Mbs download speed). I don't think it is a network issue because things work fine if I use Spotify on my iPhone.

My computer is a mid-2009 MacBook Pro, 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 8GB RAM. It is not busy with CPU or swapping.

Please can anyone suggest how I might fix this?

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

ach247 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:30:34 GMT

Having the same issue when pushing from iPhone app. Spotify support was not able to provide a fix when I contacted them on twitter. I'd really like to get this sorted as using Airplay is a big part of my home audio setup.

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

TECH101 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:41:00 GMT

It works fine here.

The only difference is my Apple TV is canled to my router, but the Mac is on Wi-fi.. No skipping here..

802.11g should be fast enough.

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

prunier84 — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 09:04:59 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone have an update on this?

So annoying! any help welcome. spotify stuttering on airplay from iphone but other airplay apps fine.

was fine on previous ioS

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

Jester6969 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:25:34 GMT

My system worked perfectly for over three weeks, no stuttering. Problem now makes the app useless.

Today have updated to iOS7.0.4, it doesn't seemd to have helped.

Any other ideas

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

ollipuljula — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:46:04 GMT

Try to disable Wifi multimedia (WMM) from your router's WLAN settings

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

user-removed — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:26:36 GMT

I was just about to purchase a subscription when I came across this issue as well. FOr this reason alone, Spotify will not get my loot.

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

emaw — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:52:43 GMT

+1 for a fix

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

tolsky — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:29:15 GMT

I had this problem - fixed it after reading this guide

there are lots of potential fixes in this article, what worked for me was simply turning OFF bluetooth (System preferences) on my mac - the stuttering went away.

Am using MBPr 2012 running Spotify Premium, I'm selecting my AppleTV by option-clicking on my speaker icon, as Spotify on a mac doesn't let you use Airplay like an iOS device can.

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

voidhawker — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:55:40 GMT

I've had problems with streaming audio to my AppleTv, either from a Macbook Pro or from an iPhone. The quality is very very low, and it oftens stutters for the first 10 - 20 seconds. It's the only option I've found that works with spotify though. Previously I used Chromecast + Google Music, and this was much more flexible, and the quality was better.

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

Zach3827 — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:24:27 GMT

Wow thanks!!! that Fixed mine!! the WMM is now disabled and no problems! thanks!!

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

undelete — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:54:56 GMT

My WMM was already disabled, however there was a setting called "Power Save Support" in the same page that somehow was related to WMM as well, so I disabled that and now it seems to work fine. However I guess that Spotify still have to reprogram this part since all other applications works fine with WMM (or any of it's sub settings) enabled. However, thanks for the tip ollipuljula!

Edit: 10 minutes after I wrote this...of course it started to stutter with Spotify again... 🙂

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

Jasper100 — Tue, 05 May 2015 23:04:43 GMT

The problem has eluded me for two years. This totally solved it. Thanks!

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

jmellars — Fri, 08 May 2015 20:18:06 GMT

@tolsky 's bluetooth tip worked for me perfectly! No idea how you figured that out. Nice.

@tolsky wrote:
I had this problem - fixed it after reading this guide

there are lots of potential fixes in this article, what worked for me was simply turning OFF bluetooth (System preferences) on my mac - the stuttering went away.
Am using MBPr 2012 running Spotify Premium, I'm selecting my AppleTV by option-clicking on my speaker icon, as Spotify on a mac doesn't let you use Airplay like an iOS device can.

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

acondiff — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 20:21:26 GMT

Thank you so much! I have been looking for a solution to that for a few years now. That did the trick. You are awesome! 🙂

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

mhlgoossens — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:24:00 GMT

thanks a lot!! been looking for a solution for a long time now and disabling QoS solved it for me 🙂

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

michaeldiener — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:26:29 GMT

I've had success with turning off WMM. I've also had success with changing my network on both my phone and my apple tv from the 5 Ghz band to the 2.4 Ghz band and have had success.

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

georgeboy1 — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 21:13:58 GMT

**bleep**, thank you sooo much for this tip!

Since weeks I tried to figure out where the heck this problem is.

From iPhone and iPad Airplay worked just fine, but from my Macbook Pro I had always this super annoying stuttering.

Your Tip solved it for me. I disabled "Mediaserver" in the settings of my router (FritzBox) and finally it works nicely and flawless...

thanx again.

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

Thehappybroker — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:40:32 GMT

Thank you this worked for me also 👍

Re: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay

lngwlk24vr — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:59:40 GMT

Thanks. Would have this same issue watching movies or playing music.... turning off Bluetooth fixed. Keeps it simple ...