Music through AirPort Express without iTunes

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Music through AirPort Express without iTunes

I've been playing iTunes to my stereo through AirPort Express for a while now -- it's great. I would now like to play music from other applications through AirPort Express, e.g., on the Internet there is a great site called Pandora that's essentially a radio station. Since Pandora plays on a web browser, I don't think I can hear it through AirPort Express.

But I heard about a piece of software that will do this -- I can't find it now that I have the time to deal with it. Anyone know what this might be?

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PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Dec 19, 2005 7:02 AM

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HD

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Dec 19, 2005 8:06 AM in response to GJM-B

Was it Airfoil?

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vondy

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Dec 19, 2005 8:53 AM in response to GJM-B

I was wondering the same thing. I listen to my old college radio station through realplayer and would love to broadcast it to my home stereo.

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iFelix

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Dec 19, 2005 9:04 AM in response to vondy

I was wondering the same thing. I listen to my old
college radio station through realplayer and would
love to broadcast it to my home stereo.

Use Airfoil as already mentioned.
http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/

iFelix

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jensendk

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Dec 19, 2005 1:09 PM in response to iFelix

I know airfoil can do the trick but that is for mac only. Do anyone know if there is anything similar for a pc (windows XP).??

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iFelix

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Dec 19, 2005 2:17 PM in response to jensendk

As far as I am aware there is nothing similar for Windows.

iFelix

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Dec 19, 2005 11:41 PM in response to jensendk

On a Mac, VLC can be used to stream the audio to iTunes while playing a movie, and iTunes then pushes it to the Express. This may work for peecee too.

It goes along the lines of:

1. In VLC edit the 'stream output chain' to be:

#transcode{acodec=mpga,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http,mux=raw, url=:8080}, select=novideo, dst=display, select=noaudio}

2. Start playing the movie

3. In iTunes, open a stream to icy://localhost:8080

See http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20041023154910602 for more info.

Mac OS X (10.4)

Mac OS X (10.4)

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