There must be a way I must be somehow holding it wrong. But I’m persistent and refused to believe that Apple would abandon me like that. Find your new headless Mac under ‘Network’ For access using a non-Mac PC, download a VNC client of choice and follow the instructions on the VNC client to connect to the remote Mac. I ddg’d about a bit and found that I was certainly not the only person to be frustrated by this. So after the upgrade, I was upset to find that the Remote app did not support the new Music app on macOS, and insisted on wanting to talk to iTunes.

Playing music off the iPhone will playback fine on the HomePod and AppleTV, but won’t allow me to playback to the Airport Express as well because it doesn’t support AirPlay 2. I do this because I know all my music is downloaded on the iMac, and iTunes has no issues playing music via my HomePod, my AppleTV, and my ancient stereo that’s plugged into an old Airport Express, all at the same time. Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl).

However, I’m one of many people who used to use the Remote app on iOS to drive the playback of music on my iMac’s iTunes. Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Remote for mac music