bigbossman wrote: > Actually, if you have iTunes open (PC or Mac) and home sharing on you > should be able to stream your entire library via Airplay using your iPod > Touch (go to 'more' in your iPods menu and select 'shared' - any > libraries that are home share enabled will show up here). > Just don't expect sound quality to match that of the SB Touch, or any SB > IMHO.
If you're playing the music from your home library on the iPod Touch itself, via Home Sharing, that's not using Airplay. If you're sending the audio from the iPod Touch to a receiving device like an Airport Express, Apple TV, or third-party AirPlay receiver, that's using Airplay. The audio you're sending could be from files stored on the iPod itself or from files stored on the computer and accessed using Home Sharing. But in the latter case you could also play the files in iTunes on the computer itself, under the control of Apple Remote on the iPod, and send the audio from iTunes to your receiver via AirPlay. (At least you can for a Mac, I still don't know if this is available on PC's.) If you're playing music on the iPod through a dock that takes the digital audio from the iPod then the sound quality should be however good the DAC etc in the dock is, subject to the 'limitation' of 16 bit / 44.1 kHz. Similarly the quality from an AirPlay receiver should be whatever its DAC and output circuitry provides, given a lossless source file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nekomatic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96726 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
