Spotify Connect cannot cast to Airplay group.

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What version of Music Assistant has the issue?

2.4.0rc7

Have you tried everything in the Troubleshooting FAQ and reviewed the Open and Closed Issues and Discussions to resolve this yourself?

• Yes

The problem

Casting using Spotify Connect to an Airplay group does not work.
Casting using Spotify Connect to an Airplay player does work (although occasional restart of music-assistant server is required as sometimes it does appear to cast but no audio/no error logs)

How to reproduce

Restart (optional) music-assistant server and attempt casting from Spotify app to a Spotify Connect Airplay group.

Music Providers

Spotify

Player Providers

Airplay

Full log output

ma_spotify_connect_00.log

Additional information

N/A

What version of Home Assistant Core are your running

2025.2.5

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

On what type of hardware are you running?

Linux