They’ve left Airplay out of their Mac app for the history of the company and I have no idea why. They have hundreds of engineers. I have airplay running on a raspberry pi since 2019.

The black and neon is truly a not-good choice for a UI. Nevertheless, they persist.

Apple Music has a much better UX. Things like “play next” when you want to play that song next but not clear your other queued up songs are little treats that Spotify took years to catch up to. Many of the other bugs—which people document for them!—go untouched for literally years.

It’s fascinating to me how companies like this ignore easy wins for their users. Have a couple engineers burn down all of those and you’ll win fans (or at least not create enemies.) Take the wins!

The Music app on my macOS Sequoia 15.7.5 has an airplay button on the top right, to the left of the lyrics button.