Multiple problems in Music after Sequoia upgrade

I have a Macbook Air M2 with 16 GB of Ram. I have a local set of speakers connected to the headphones port as well as two pairs of HomePods in different rooms connect one WiFi. Everything was working fine with the old system software. However, since "upgrading" to Sequoia I have multiple playback issues.

1) The playback periodically breaks up, stutters, etc. Disconnecting the affected speaker and immediately reconnecting fixes it temporarily but a few minutes later it will happen again.

2) I can only connect to one set of HomePods at a time. Previously, I could select any set of speakers I wanted to.

3) Occasionally, play back on the local speakers and a selected set of HomePods will lose sync so that there is a slight delay between what is playing on each speaker.

I had none of these problems before. I have done multiple restarts of Music and system restarts but nothing helps. Any suggestions?