airtunes, frontrow and volume

Same here! (aka bump...)

FYI: changing volume with remote works when the sound is playing through my computer's speakers.

Is your AirPort Express connected via analog (headphone to RCA) cables? Or is it connected with a digital optical audio cable? You can't change the Front Row/system volume when it's connected via digital audio.

-Doug

Since I'm in the same boat. If the Airport Express is hooked up to a DAC via the digital optical out the Front Row volume will work?

Actually, volume control is still present via iTunes when using the digital (optical) cable from your AirPort Express. (I'm doing it now - you just need the volume control enabled in your AirPort Express settings.) The issue isn't iTunes, it's that OS X doesn't pass the instruction for volume control to iTunes, but handles it itself by adjusting your system volume, which has no affect on your AirPort Express.

(The same goes when you use the RCA cables, I might add. You can't control iTunes volume with the remote, only the system volume.)

I came across a fix using a little program called Bytecontroller: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15170 . It's designed to control itunes from the menubar.

In its preferences you can set hotkeys. Set F4 (i.e., Fn+F4, remember "volume down" is the default, you have the hold Fn to get the F4 key) to be decrease, and F5 to be increase volume. Newer keyboards have different locations for volume up and down, I believe.

To control Airtunes speakers, you then just hit Fn+F4 or Fn+F5. Hitting F4 or F5 without holding Fn still controls the system volume. You don't even have to alt-tab to itunes, it works from whatever program has the focus.

Hope this helps - I'm happy with it.

~Ste