Praise be, macOS 11.3 finally lets you use two HomePods as a stereo pair
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Yesterday saw the release of macOS 11.3 and it was a good day. Sure, it brought support for things like AirTags and whatnot, but more importantly, it fixed a huge oversight. It brings support for stereo pairs of HomePods to Mac for the first time. I ranted about this madness before. Up until yesterday, nobody could set a stereo pair of HomePods as the audio destination from within macOS. You could output music from the Music app, but you couldn`t select a stereo pair from the macOS system settings. And that was, as I`ve said previously, madness. The fact that macOS 11 didn`t support AirPlay 2 natively until macOS 11.3 still is, frankly. Especially with the $99 HomePod mini around. But if you try and select that stereo pair of HomePod minis from a Mac`s menu bar you`re going to be stuck because the audio will instead come from one HomePod mini or the other. No stereo. No fun. No sense as to why. And now it`s fixed. Here`s how to set that stereo pair up in the first place, by t...