Hi scott,
Once the ae is setup, you can unplug it and move it. You should test
it first though with a headset to make sure it is connecting to
ITunes. To do this, connect it to the router you are using, which is
what? then start the airport utility and go through the setup as
described in the document following the instructions on the screen to
join a wireless network. when it is done, it will restart and if
successfull, it will show up in the airport utility. close airport
utility, start ITunes and make sure that in ITunes prefs, you are set
to look for remote speakers with airtunes. It is checked by default
but if you have unchecked it for some reason, you will want to make
sure it is checked.
Close the prefs window, find with vo and arrow keys where it says
computer. press space on this and youwill have three choices,
computer, multiple speakers and if it was successful, you will see the
name you gave the ae. if it is not successful, you won't even see the
computer icon. Choose your ae and press enter. It should then begin
streaming as soon as you start a song. If all is well, move it to the
stereo area and hook it up and test it again as above.
I've tried this with and without a password. ifyou choose to use a
password, if there is a connection interruption, you'll have to type
the password in to restart the connection. If not, all you have to do
is choose the ae again. My ae is named meowing but by default, it
will probably be scott's airport express or something, shorter is
better <g> It should work fine with your router, but I had to fiddle
with router settings to get it to work for me. It did not matter what
I did on the ae side, nothing worked till I got the router set up
right and I had little guidance that worked toward a solution although
there was a lot of info provided by esther an tim kilburn. I finally
just had to look and puzzle it out. My router is a netgear and I had
to change a setting I have not seen on any other router to get it to
work. Let me know if you run into essoteric issues and I'll try to
help f I can because I did a lot of trial and error before mine
worked. If when you are told the router will restart, you get a
message that airport utility could not find your airport express and
to close and restart and restarting does not find the ae, you'll have
to reset the ae and start over. You should not have this problem when
using the eternet for setup though. the other issue tha will cause
you to need to restart will be an error writing the configuration.
Reset and try again. I often used the manual setup to trouble shoot
before I finally got it right.
Enjoy and let us know if we can help further.
On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Scott Rutkowski wrote:
Hi again Esther.
Would anything happen if I firstly didn't connect an audio cable to
the stereo and the airport express and told airport express I just
wanted to use the airport express to stream music on my iTunes to a
stereo and then after the setup went and connected the cable?
Does it actually make a big difference having the audio cable
connected first?
I understand your instructions just wondered if anything bad would
have happened if just configuring the express first then connect the
audio cable once set up and updated if this would work or if I should
take the airport express to the other room, connect the audio cable to
the 3.5 mm jack and then walk back to the mac and run airport utility?
Any thoughts?
I could of coursse do all this on my macbook right near the stereo as
well couldn't I seen's both iTunes libraries are both synced on both
macs.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[email protected]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
by theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: Airport express configuration assistance please
Hi Scott R. and Scott H.,
The recommended sequence is to plug in your AirPort Express and
connect any devices (printers, audio equipment, etc.), then run
AirPort Utility. As David Poehlman mentioned in the earlier
discussion about the AirPort Express, you'll be informed updates
for the AirPort Express when you run AirPort Utility, and you'll be
asked if you want to download any updates then. As with most
Apple products, there's a product manual you can get as a PDF file
from:
http://support.apple.com/manuals
Just do a Google search for "Apple support manuals" if you need to
find that page again. Then type in "Airport Express" in the search
field. The first entry is for the AirPort Express Setup Guide
(Early 2008):
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/AirPort_Express_Setup_Guide.pdf
Here's the section on "Connecting to an Existing Wireless
Network" (pasted from that document):
<begin quote>
Connecting to an Existing Wireless Network
You can use AirPort Utility to join an existing wireless network.
When you connect your
AirPort Express to your home stereo, computers on your wireless
network can use
AirTunes to play music from iTunes on the stereo. If you connect a
USB printer to your
AirPort Express, all of the computers on the network can print to
the printer.
Make sure you connect the audio cable to your stereo and the USB
cable to your
printer before you use AirPort Utility.
To connect to an existing network:
1 Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the
Applications folder on a
Macintosh, or in Start > All Programs > AirPort on a Windows computer.
2 Follow the onscreen instructions to connect your AirPort Express
to your wireless
network.
<end quote>
You'll probably want to read the sections about
"Using AirPort Express on an Existing Wireless Network and Stream
Music to Powered
Speakers or Your Home Stereo" and the tips for placing your AirPort
Express to avoid
interference.
Also, the AirPort Express can be used for streaming music on PC
networks from computers running Windows with iTunes, and there are
instructions on how to do that as well (not necessary in your
case). Rogue Amoeba also makes a Windows version of AirFoil that
allows streaming audio content (not just from iTunes) using the
AirPort Express .
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 21, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
You will use AirPort Utility to accomplish these things. It takes
maybe all of ten or so seconds to boot, but of course your going
to have to open the utility and see if it appears in the table of
routers. It'll have a name like Apple some number. Not sure how
the new ones show up. It'll then allow you to configure it and set
it up not only to stream music, but to act as an extender as well.
hth
On Dec 21, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Scott Rutkowski wrote:
Hi all mac listers.
can anyone please advise i've just purchased an airport express
and i'm wondering i've connected power to the unit and am
wondering is the first thing I should do is open airport utility
and upgrade the firmware and then how do I just tell airport
express I want to stream music wirelessly using iTunes?
I thought I remember Esther or someone saying I can tell airport
express to then connect to my wireless router using 80211n and
then once configured take it in to the next room and connect it to
my stereo aux in.
Is this correct so far or have I missed anything important?
how long does an airport express take to boot up when power is
applied?
Does the firmware for airport express get upgraded only via the
airport utility and not via software update like other mac firmware?
Sorry for the questions am new to airport express and setting up
an airport device on a mac for the first time.
Thanks all for your assistance.
Scott Howell
[email protected]
