Using iPod Touch to hear mac's audio

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Using iPod Touch to hear mac's audio

Hi,

I would like to watch movies on my mac and listen to the mac's audio via my ipod headphones. I have tried Airfoil, but it lags by a second when I use their player, so I'm looking for something else. I have mac pro with bluetooth, and so does the ipod, is there any way to use my ipod as bluetooth headphones?

Thanks,
Zevie

Mac Pro 8 core-----MacBook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.5.6), Mac Pro 8 core, 10 Gb Ram, 750 GB/////MacBook Pro 15"

Posted on Sep 4, 2009 1:50 AM

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Answer 1

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Julian Wright

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Sep 4, 2009 8:16 AM in response to Zevie Tannenbaum

Bluetooth in the iPod touch is only for connecting to Bluetooth Stereo headphones. It can't connect to a Mac.

To be honest, I think you'll always get a bit of audio lag trying to stream audio over Bluetooth or Wifi to the iPod touch and then ot through headphones (even if its possible).

At the risk of asking a silly question, why can't you just connect your iPod headphones to the headphone port on your Mac (with an extension cable if its too far away), or get some Bluetooth headphones to connect to your Mac?

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Answer 2

Sep 5, 2009 2:13 PM in response to Julian Wright

I guess I'll go with bluetooth headphones, I just wanted to listen to my music library everywhere in the house and for the movies, I would rather listen to them wirelessly. I'll wait a couple days before marking as solved to see if anyone else has any other ideas.

Thanks a lot Julian,
Zevie

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MacBart

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Sep 14, 2009 4:10 AM in response to Zevie Tannenbaum

It can be done via WIfI with Airfoil and VLC video player.

VLC has the option to desynchronize audio and video by a specific amount of milliseconds.
VlC Preferences -> Audio (check advanced) set the desired time in the last box. For airport express -2000 works fine, but your millage may vary.

Works like a charme 🙂

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