On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Scott Rutkowski wrote:
Firstly does the airport express recieve it's power via a plugg pack
which you plugg in to the wall outlet near your stereo to recieve
power?
It is the power brick itself, the express is about 4 inch by 4 inch
and about an inch thick.
Secondly once you have used the airport utility to configure the
device, I assume you simply use the remote speakers option in iTunes
and the music you select in iTunes simply streams over your network
to the airport express which is located near your stereo?
Yes. once the express is on the network when you launch itunes there
will be a new pop up menu in the lower right area of the itunes
browser that you could select as many "airtunes" express connected
speakers you desire. With the addition of a software called Air Foil
you could stream any audio from your computer
Also there's no way to somehow use the iMac remote to control iTunes
out near the stereo is there?
You could not control the speakers beyond volume issues.
The stereo is about 20 metres away in another room.
There would be no way of using a macbook to control the iTunes
library on the iMac to which the airport express is connected would
there?
The airport express is connected to the network not a computer. iTunes
allows the sharing of libraries on other computers, all computers can
take turns using airtunes.
I am thinking the macbook could be near the airport express and the
music would stream via the macbook and this would also work.
Is there any kind of lag or any brake up while the music is being
streamed via airport express?
All computers should be on your local area network. All computers
should have access to airtunes. Connected is connected. Streaming of
audio should be fine if your network is healthy.
Woody
