Wow so say I get a Mac and I put Mountain Lion on does that mean I will not
need Airfoil?
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From: "Mac Egbert" <dateq...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: here's a tip for audio lovers
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.
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