AirPlay audio is pants in macOS 26 Music App. It regularly "forgets" that it should be sending audio to remote HomePods.
I so want to downgrade to macOS 15. (the previous version, before they went to including the year in the version).
@ianRobinson Let us know if you find a way to downgrade. I opened a support issue with #Apple for the well-documented #iPad Air scrolling bug, and they just put me off with a silly task of rebooting while plugged in the next time it happened. That didn’t fix it, of course. So I just upgraded my tablet…to a #Linux one.