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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. Sync issues by KoopaTroopa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Has anyone used this? Are there any sync issues if running audio from (as an example) VLC from a video file?

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    1. Re:Sync issues by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 3, Interesting
      There's probably nothing they can really do about this.
      I said that, but it's not true. They could write software that would buffer everything coming out of the compositing engine, or perhaps just one window, and play it back a second or two later. Obviously this would be resource intensive and prone to annoyances, but it could work on big, burly machines.
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  2. Still not the only feature I want by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I want to be able to use my computer as an AirTunes sink, not a source. I'm not about to buy an Airport Express, but I'd like to be able to pipe audio from my girlfriend's iBook to my desktop's speakers.

    Then yeah, I'd like to be able to do it with DVD Player.app as well as iTunes.

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  3. Will the foil fly? by erick99 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Airfoil looks like a great product,however, I can't quite tell if it is something that Apple will dislike given how proprietary Apple can be.

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    1. Re:Will the foil fly? by beej69 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      huh? do you have any URL's to back up your claim? afaik, apple purposefully used a proprietary algorithm. Jon Lech Johansen (yes... DVD Jon) was the one to reverse-engineer it:
      http://nanocrew.net/blog/apple/revairtunes.html

    2. Re:Will the foil fly? by isa-kuruption · · Score: 5, Interesting

      My claims? Considering Apple uses RTSP for it's Quicktime streaming it would only make sense for them to use the thing they know for their other products. Any more proof? Shall I telnet to port 554 on my Airport Express and show you the RTSP signature? How about a Apple Press Release in which they updated RTSP in the Airport firmware. I'm sure Apple always updates protocols not supported by their hardware!

  4. Audio Hijack by mailman-zero · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do they accomplish this? Is there any sort of conversion on the fly being done to the audio? Are they piping it through iTunes somehow or implementing this on their own? Does this involve encryption algorithms?

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