but you have to have a computer where you want to hear your music right? I
think that might be the advantage of an fm transmitter. Let's say i have a
radio in my bathroom. With an fm transmitter i can still listen to the
audiobook I was reading on my computer while I get ready for work.
Maybe that's a strange scenario but there you go.
bb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 9:51 AM
Subject: airport express and airfoil was question about ccrane transmitter
Hi Everyone!
Upon reading other posts here there seems to be quite some confusion as to
what I'm talking about, perhaps I didn't explain it correctly so I'll give
it another try.
The original question was from a list member regarding volume levels for
his FM transmitter and I suggested an Airport Express as an alternative,
other people have suggested other alternatives.
Now I'm not exactly sure what people are thinking here because an Airport
Express really has nothing to do with Itunes, yes! you can use Itunes with
an Airport Express but more of that in a moment.
An Airport Express is in fact a small Wi-Fi base station which can be used
that way or an extension to a network, i'll give the web site address out
later so you can find out more information about its network capabilities
suffice to say that its incredibly versatile.
Anyway, the Airport Express is a box about 3 inches square that plugs into
the AC power, it has 2 sockets on it, one being a 100MBPS ethernet socket
and the other being a 3.5MM analogue/optical digital audio out jack and
here's where the fun starts, you can stream to this Airport Express and by
using the audio out jack, have your audio piped to whatever device you
prefer, a set of computer speakers, the aux in of a boom box, the digital
in of a surround-sound system etc.
Now back to Itunes - which incidentally the blind can use on both Windows
and Mac machines without sighted help - it will detect these Airport
Express modules, in fact you can have more than one in your system, I have
3 and each is in a different room connected to different audio devices so
Itunes can stream your audio to these but it doesn't stop there so now we
come to the software Airfoil.
Airfoil takes or rather "Hijacks" the audio source of applications - say
Winamp or Windows Media Player - and streams this to the Airport Express
or to a separate software application called Airfoil Speakers, this
software is used on another computer somewhere in the house thus turning
it into a pair of remote Speakers.
So that's about all for my explanation and I hope I've painted a better
picture but as you can see, the Airport Express has several great
advantages over FM transmission which is why I opted for it in the first
place, no interference problems, crystal clear sound, you can transmit
surround-sound audio if you need to and so on and the price of one of
these things? Well I don't know what the price of the Ccrane transmitter
was but I'd be willing to bet the Airport Express would be about the same
price.
You can find out more about Airport Express at
http://www.apple.com/airportexpress and yes, its not computer specific
meaning that its a network device so you can configure it with whatever
operating system takes your fancy.
For more information on Airfoil for Mac and Windows go to
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/ this company also make a nice
product called Radio Shift but more about that in another post.
Cheers
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