Music Assistant’s AirPlay tool stops refusing older Apple TVs that allow unpaired playback. A device such as Apple TV 2 could be rejected before the connection even started because its advertised public key was mistaken for a requirement to pair.
Marvin Schenkel removes that initial check. Devices that require pairing still reject an unpaired connection themselves. The source identifies this as a regression from playback that worked in Music Assistant 2.9; Marcel van der Veldt reviewed the correction.