- AIRFOIL AUDIO FORM LAPTOP TO PHONE PORTABLE
- AIRFOIL AUDIO FORM LAPTOP TO PHONE PRO
- AIRFOIL AUDIO FORM LAPTOP TO PHONE TV
- AIRFOIL AUDIO FORM LAPTOP TO PHONE MAC
Using Airfoil and Airfoil Speakers, it’s possible to send audio from iOS to multiple outputs.ĭue to Apple’s restrictions, we can’t do anything directly in iOS to provide this functionality. However, if you’ve used this functionality, you know it has one big drawback – it can’t send to multiple outputs! After many requests for help with this, I’ve written up a great workaround for this shortcoming.
AIRFOIL AUDIO FORM LAPTOP TO PHONE TV
You can now beam music directly from most apps out to a stereo or TV and that’s very cool. With the latest versions of iOS, it’s possible to send audio directly from an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad out to AirPlay devices like an Apple TV or AirPort Express. However, you can always use Apple’s Remote app to choose and control iTunes’ tracks from your iOS device.Posted By Paul Kafasis on February 12th, 2012 (Unfortunately, these track-control features work only with the Airfoil Speakers application-Airfoil Speakers Touch doesn’t support remote control.
AIRFOIL AUDIO FORM LAPTOP TO PHONE MAC
You can’t view, on the “Speakers” Mac, playlists, or navigate to specific tracks, but you’re provided with enough control to skip songs you hate, thus avoiding a trip to the host Mac to do the job. I could even control playback: clicking Next or Previous let me move through an iTunes playlist, Play/Pause worked as expected, and I could see the playing track’s title and artist information at the top of the Airfoil Speakers window I could also adjust the track’s volume.
AIRFOIL AUDIO FORM LAPTOP TO PHONE PRO
Running Airfoil Speakers on my MacBook Pro and Airfoil on my Mac Pro, I was able to listen to the Mac Pro’s iTunes audio from my laptop. The new features perform largely as advertised. Granted, it’s an oddball setup and works only when I’m within range of my home Wi-Fi network, but it shows how flexible Airfoil can be.
AIRFOIL AUDIO FORM LAPTOP TO PHONE PORTABLE
When I choose that digital input as a source, I can then stream the Sonos’ music to my iPod touch running Airfoil Speakers Touch, effectively giving me a portable Sonos player that I can carry in my pocket-and control via Sonos’s own app. Sonos Multi-Room Music System) plugged into my Mac Pro’s digital audio input. For example, I have the digital output of a Sonos ZonePlayer 90 (part of the This is a compelling feature if configured correctly. Instead of audio from a specific application, you can select one of your computer’s audio sources-your Mac’s built-in analog or digital audio inputs, for example. Start the source playing and the audio streams to the enabled devices. From a pop-up menu at the top of the Airfoil window, choose a source-iTunes, Safari, QuickTime Player, or another application of your choosing (including Airfoil Video Player if you want to stream a video’s audio-as with Airfoil 3.1, you have to enable at least one destination before Airfoil Video Player streaming will work). (As with AirPlay in iTunes, this list also includes the host computer.) Select those devices you wish to send audio to and, if you like, adjust the volume for each device separately. Launch Airfoil and you’ll see a list of all Airfoil-compatible devices available on your local network, including computers and iOS devices currently running Airfoil Speakers or Airfoil Speakers Touch, respectively. Rather than regurgitate his words, allow me to sum up how Airfoil works and address version 4’s new features, confident that you’ll read Dan’s review for more information about previously existing features. My colleague Dan Frakes admirably explained Airfoil’s intimate details a few years back in his (Alas, you can’t use Airfoil to stream non-iTunes video to any of these destinations.) As with AirPlay from within iTunes, you can stream audio to multiple devices simultaneously, and using the included Airfoil Video Player, you can even stream a video’s soundtrack and-the tricky part-expect the audio and video to be in sync. But what about content that isn’t contained in your Mac’s iTunes library? For that, there’s Rogue Amoeba’s $25 Airfoil for Mac.Īirfoil lets you stream any audio on your Mac to a variety of devices, including Apple’s AirPort Express Base Stations and Apple TV units (any generation of either), other computers (Mac, Windows, or Linux) running Rogue Amoeba’s freeĪirfoil Speakers application, and iOS devices running the just-as-freeĪirfoil Speakers Touch app ( ). Whereas in the past you could stream audio from your iTunes library to an AirPort Express Base Station, Apple TV, or another Mac, iTunes can now stream audio and video to compatible iOS devices running iOS 4.3 or later, and those same iOS devices can stream their video to an Apple TV or other AirPlay-compatible device. AirPlay and Home Sharing support for iOS devices, streaming audio and video between your various computing devices is getting a fair measure of Apple’s attention.