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AirPort Express Streaming Audio From Any Program
Foobaz writes "Until now, the only application that can play audio on Apple's AirPort Express has been Apple's own iTunes. But Rogue Amoeba, makers of Audio Hijack, just released Airfoil, a program that lets you redirect anything to your AirPort Express, like streaming audio from mplayer, RealPlayer, or VLC."
It emits noise after using for ten minutes, unless you purchase the "pro" version
They answer that question in the FAQ. Yes, the audio will be out of sync. This can be solved with VLC or MPlayer by manually synchronizing the video and audio. This cannot be solved with DVD Player.app, RealPlayer, or anything else that won't let you decouple audio from video. There's probably nothing they can really do about this.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
why not turn on sharing in both of your itunes? then you can access one another's libraries.
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That is dishonest marketing. JustePort has been doing that for quite some time. It's even more dishonest when Rogue Amoeba probably relied on JustePort to write the AirFoil.
It probably won't be a problem, for two reasons:
1. It's been in beta for a while, Apple could have easily done something about it earlier.
2. It still uses iTunes. The backend uses the iTunes API to add a local stream to the library and send it to the Airport Express.
What would really make Apple upset is if someone had discovered the key being used to encrypt the audio, but that hasn't happened here.
It's lossless, but there's lag.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
There is a sync issue with this. It's got to do with the APEX standard and nothing the DEV's can do about it.
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However. This is not a problem since VLC and MPlayer can move the sound all around. So just watch your torrents with VLC(which I guess you do anyway) and make the sound be a few seconds early. Easy peasy.
More info at http://www.rogueamoeba.com/forum/ubb/Forum7/HTML/
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Yes it involves encryption. The signal going to an Airport Express is encrypted Apple Lossless.
If Apple didn't like it and wanted to be proprietary, they wouldn't have used Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), which is a well documented and supported protocol, as the transport method.
they're the first high-profile implementation of the algorithm that Jon Lech Johansen reverse-engineered:
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(http://nanocrew.net/blog/apple/revairtunes.html)
and yes... this is THAT Jon... the one that got yanked into court for reverse-engineering the DVD encryption. all hail Jon!
what we need now is for mplayer and VLC and the others to implement airport express streaming directly in the media player...
I purchased Audio Hijack to rip AAR to my iPod (you know... before the election) It was crashing on my iBook however. Rogue's support was great, we went back and forth with emails of things to try for a few days. The conclusion was me getting a new build that cured the problem. YMMV of course, but I'd buy from them again.
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I've been using this solution for playing DIVX files from my laptop (which is connected to my projector, while the audio is routed to AirPort Express) for some time, and works well, thanks to the author's knowledge, and the power of VLC !
As explained in this blog:
RAOP protocol itself has already been analyzed by DVDJon and its implementation is availabe as an open source C# software called JustePort. RAOP protocol is based on RTSP wrapped with AES and RSA cryptography, on which Apple Lossless files are streamed.
AES and RSA are also open methods in conjunction with RTSP. Seems pretty open to me.
---But it requires iTunes, so there's one more thing that I'm not going to buy from apple.---
You do realize that iTunes is free, and works just fine with all sorts of file formats you can rip from your own cd's or buy elsewhere right? It'll even convert your WMA files to AAC.
---If I buy a Chevy vehicle, I want it to work with any gasoline that's been refined properly. I don't want to buy Chevy gasoline, or gasoline from an "approved Chevy distributor". Same goes for my music... If I buy something that plays music, I just want it to play my goddamned music... Not music from store A, or through service B.----
Sounds pretty much like iTunes fits the bill for you then, as long as you avoid buying music downloads from any seller with proprietary DRM (pretty much everyone selling major label songs for download, Apple included).
--- Until things change, Apple ain't seeing a dime from me.---
You should really stick it to them by downloading it and using it for free then.