i don’t know if i’m missing anything but i couldn’t find a media player that just outputs audio to the local machine that runs HA. i can of course set up audio out with shell commands that trigger aplay or afplay on a mac.
but if i want to output TTS, i need to configure a media player. vlc would be a possibility, but i failed to set it up correctly on my mac.
on the other hand afplay on mac fails to stream http, don’t know about aplay. for mac you can work around the afplay limitation with something like this: