HT204289: How to AirPlay content from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Learn about How to AirPlay content from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
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Apr 1, 2014 12:32 PM in response to Dookie2014by diesel vdub,It is not possible to AirPlay content from a computer to an iDevice.
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Apr 1, 2014 1:49 PM in response to diesel vdubby Dookie2014,Ok, thanks for letting me know
Though I find it a bit misleading to say you can stream what you want to any device around the house.. Why would I want to sit in another room playing music in another, I can't exactly carry my mac around the house.
If you don't want to store loads of music or films on your phone or ipad that couldn't store all what I've got on my mac I'd say that would be the most useful feature, so you can play it on another device.
I live and work in a bar and sometimes DJ or just like to just pump music round the bar without messing about taking stuff on and off my ipad.
There just seems to be a lot of needless limitations, like you can't even get all the content you would watch ether... When you can get everything on a laptop and plug it into a TV and watch what you want and have a 500 to 1tb hard drive on it.
I really like the idea's their coming up with but their not quite there yet.
I often wonder why they just don't do a Full HD TV with a mac inside it and doubles up as a stereo and you can just stream everything from it.
Maybe in the future.
Cheers
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Apr 1, 2014 6:45 PM in response to Dookie2014by diesel vdub,Dookie2014 wrote:
Ok, thanks for letting me know
Though I find it a bit misleading to say you can stream what you want to any device around the house..
Apple has never claimed any such thing. I suspect that AirPlay and iTunes Match are being confused.
What would work better in the situation described above is Home Sharing.
Enable Home Sharing on the computer and link up to the library on the iOS device. Then play the content from the shared library. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
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Apr 1, 2014 7:06 PM in response to diesel vdubby Dookie2014,Ok
Cool, I,ve just signed up to Match a few days ago. I'm quite pleased with it but it can be a bit awkward with some albums, I find the titles have to be exactly the same as the one that being sold on iTunes.. Say if it's ripped of a cd you brought a long time ago it's not gonna match to the remaster deluxe there now selling in its place... Or if it's a Single track it has to have the information of the album it came from.
I just thought airplay worked independently of the internet so it was more reliable.
Thanks for your help.