Hi Paul, i played with apple tv already, but this means more fun. The airplay functions in mountain lion are better then before... Thx Egbert
Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone Op 6 aug. 2012 om 11:01 heeft Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
