Duplicate AirPlay receiver

[UKenGB]

I have many AirPlay devices on the LAN, Apple TVs, Amplifiers, HomePods etc. and actual Macs. My wife and I both use Mac Minis and MA shows both as available AirPlay receivers, but my Mini is listed twice. Why?

They have different IDs but otherwise nothing to distinguish between them. I tried to delete one, but in each case, they replied "No" AirPlay won't allow it" (or words to that effect).

After messing around disabling one or another, switching AirPlay off/on on the Mac and RAOP pairing with one of them, I was eventually allowed to delete the other. Which promptly then re-appeared shortly later, but with no settings available, like it was non-functional. So I renamed it (for clarity) and disabled it. But it's still there and I'd rather not have spurious duplicates in the player list.

My Mac Mini is not (AFAICT) advertising 2 AirPlay devices so what can be causing these duplicates in MA?

[OzGav]

You will need to look at the top of each players settings at the unique identifiers and see what is different between them.

[UKenGB]

Is this what you mean?


The first one is fully functional and I just captured the top end of the window. The second one is the complete window and is missing almost everything so not usable.

In fact I just deleted that second one (without complaint), to see it reappear. It has not yet, but I'm not holding my breath.

However, I've just noticed these:-

They are all similarly limited in their own page display and do not appear in the list of players to use when clicking on speaker icon to show list in Right Hand panel, so not usable.

What I can use is this:-

So the duplication only seems to occur for this Mac, which I am currently using to access MA, in a Safari window (and to type this). My wife's identical Mini shows no such aberration, but then MA is not open in any Safari window on that Mac.

Let me know if you need any more detail.

[OzGav]

Has this been resolved in the latest versions?

[UKenGB]

Updated to 2.8.6 this morning and just had a look at AirPlayers and there are no duplicates showing. So looking good. 😊