Can you use multiple speakers option on itunes using both an airplay speaker and a bluetooth speaker simultaneously?

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Can you use multiple speakers option on itunes using both an airplay speaker and a bluetooth speaker simultaneously?

I currently have the Bose Airplay speakers in my living room. I wish to purchase another speaker for the kitchen but don't want to spend a whole lot so am looking at Bluetooth options.

If I wanted to stream my music simultaneously to both speakers via my desktop, will I be able to choose the multiple speakers option and stream to both airplay and bluetooth speakers?

Thanks!

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Posted on Dec 4, 2012 10:32 AM

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Tesserax

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Dec 4, 2012 10:55 AM in response to mac2lad

I believe the answer is going to be no. The reason is that iTunes can only stream to a single or multiple AirPlay "speakers." As you can imagine AirPlay and Bluetooth are two different technologies and only AirPlay is supported via the AirPlay icon within iTunes.

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Oct 12, 2013 2:02 PM in response to mac2lad

Bose is expensive! I have one, but just bought the Philips Fidelio airplay. It looks very similar and it works very well and I bought to it for about a third of the price of the Bose. Amazon had a special price, not sure if it's still that low. You might want to check that out.

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Answer 3

Jan 16, 2014 10:05 PM in response to mac2lad

You can do it but there is a delay from the bluetooth speaker. You'll need an iphone or ipad using the Apple app "Control", airplay setup, bluetooth speaker, and an Apple laptop or desktop.

I used my laptop to connect to my bluetooth speaker so that sound streams to my bluetooth device. Then, on my iphone I opened Control and connect the music to my airplay and my laptop at the same time. The music goes to your airplay speaker, and then to my laptop which then blue tooths it to my speaker. But, as I said the bluetooth takes an extra step to stream it and so the music is not in sync. Its like a second and a half delay....

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