Hi!
Yes, true.
But i am out of money so i have to have them for a while.
/A
> 5 jan. 2017 kl. 18:23 skrev Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>:
>
> Yes the Extreme does but the Express doesn’t, one handles audio and the other
> doesn’t but regardless of all that, Apple don’t even make them any more.
>
>> On 6 Jan 2017, at 1:19 am, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>> Oh, thats nice.
>> But i still enjoy my airport devices.
>> The extreme i have has ac support.
>> /A
>>> 4 jan. 2017 kl. 04:23 skrev Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>:
>>>
>>> Yes, that problem hit me fair and square when I removed my Airport Express
>>> but I found a way around it and I’m glad you mentioned this as I had
>>> intended to dedicate a post to this problem.
>>> All one has to do to stream Apple Music to a Chromecast is to use the
>>> Airfoil App, both Windows and Mac versions recognise the Chromecast.
>>> There are other options as well but Airfoil is by far the easiest and most
>>> configurable.
>>>
>>>> On 4 Jan 2017, at 2:14 pm, Mary Otten <maryot...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nice idea. But if you have a Mac and a bunch of music in the Apple cloud,
>>>> it's not practical. You can't Chromecast anything from Apple
>>>> unfortunately.
>>>> Not that you can't use an Apple device with the Chromecast audio. It's
>>>> just that you can't Chromecast anything from Apple Music or your Mac
>>>> running iTunes. Since that's where a whole lot of my stuff is, I still
>>>> have my airport expresses working fine if a bit old. Mary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 3, 2017, at 6:03 PM, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep, time to say goodbye to the Airport Express units which I've been
>>>>> using for so long - well one far longer than the other actually -.
>>>>> I bought my first Airport Express -first generation - in 2009 and the
>>>>> newer generation in 2013 and that's the latest and last Airport Express
>>>>> generation to be made.
>>>>> Unfortunately the Airport Express has not kept up with current Wi-Fi
>>>>> trends or perhaps the simple answer is that it can't? We now have Wi-Fi
>>>>> AAC for example which is a huge step forward.
>>>>> Once aupon a not so long ago, I used the Airport Express as a router
>>>>> however what the Airport Express was capable of then has now been totally
>>>>> eclipsed by other routers from the big names such as Asus and so on.
>>>>> So what am I using in the place of the Airport Express to receive audio
>>>>> streams? The new Google Chromecast Audio which arrived today.
>>>>> Its simple to set up thanks to the Google Home App on both Android and
>>>>> IOS, I used Android for the setup Operating System this time and found
>>>>> the Google Home App easy to navigate.
>>>>> Only thing that does worry me is how good the receiver in the Chromecast
>>>>> Audio is as it described the Wi-Fi network I connected to as having a
>>>>> "Weak Signal" and I was advised to connect to another with a stronger
>>>>> signal, well we'll find out later today just how robust the connection
>>>>> really is when I put the Chromecast Audio through its paces.
>>>>> The Chromecast Audio looks very similar in size to the current generation
>>>>> of the Chromecast but instead of a HDMI port it has a 3.5MM audio port
>>>>> which is capable of providing both analogue and digital output, if the
>>>>> Chromecast were only an analogue output device then I would never have
>>>>> considered purchasing one.
>>>>> I paid $60 Australian for the Chromecast Audio and that to me represents
>>>>> excellent value, I don't expect top notch audio for my $60 but I'm quite
>>>>> sure I'll get reasonable - if not very decent - audio when I connect the
>>>>> Chromecast Audio to my Rotel DAC, I might even connect the Chromecast
>>>>> Audio to my new MM1 Speakers.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> are the solution.
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