Hi listers interested, In case you did not yet come across it, here's something to try. Itunes airplay is usually the only way to stream music and other audio to your airport express, or to your airplay speakers. Outside itunes, you're out of luck. Your iphone can do more as far as I have experienced, but not your mac.
Well here's a solution. It's not in the app store, because these are things Apple doesn't want you to do. It's called airfoil. I picked up that name in the mac power users podcast. If you google it you'll find it. So what does it do? Basically, it lets you choose your sound output to play music on, as if airplay restrictions just were not there. So if you have a stereo connected to an airport express, just turn that on, start airfoil, choose your airport express as the destination inside airfoil, and choose the audio source, in my case that is the vlc media player also from the airfoil program window, and start playing. Rather than the sound coming from your internal mac speakers, it now sends it to the airport express. Any file can thus be played, without bothering with itunes and its library. But there's even more. I tried it, and it is a perfect solution if you want to hear what goes on in the room that the mac is sitting in, all around your house, as long as you have a windows or mac computer, or airplay speakers where you are listening, because airfoil can also take your internal mac mike, and transmit that off to an airport express. Even better, to another mac in the same lan. This is done by running a supplementary little app called airfoil speakers, on the mac that you would like to listen on. So, you can have a mac transmiting music from any media player, or from its internal mike, and have it sent to another mac, or airplay devices. There is also an airfoil speaker app available for windows, so that even a windows computer can become a destination for your audio. I thought that was just awesome. It just works. The airfoil interface is not accessible everywhere, but if you study it for a minute or five you'll probably love it. Airfoil is not free. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
