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AirPort Express Streaming Audio From Any Program

Posted by Zonk on from the showing-off-my-tmbg-collection dept.

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."

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  1. Okay... by Delta2.0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That will work nice for those who have airport express, but when will other hardware makers put the ability to stream music to a stereo on their routers so the price won't be such a factor?

  2. Re:Sync issues by KoopaTroopa · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I figure hopefully there's a kind of standard delay in the Airport Express decoding so, even if you have to manually sync, maybe it's not a trial-and-error process.

    Thanks for reading the FAQ for me (page didn't load for me, apparently it wasn't /.'d yet though.

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  3. Re:Apple's not going to like this. by useosx · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple never had a problem with Audio Hijack. I really see no reason that they're going to think anything other than "Oh, now we'll sell more Airport Expresses."

    This is much different than, say, cracking their DRM. I really can't think of a single reason they would disapprove of Airfoil.

  4. Re:Sync issues by pancakegeels · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Easy peasy? I can't get this to work from any command line app. Any ideas?