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I have 1st generation Apple TV with speakers hooked directly. I'm also trying to stream to remote Airport Express
speakers at same time. The music I want to play is from iPod or ipad via AirTunes.
I cannot seem to stream to the airport express as its not showing up. Is this because 1st generation doesn't support?
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Yes that's correct, the Apple TV uses AirTunes and iOS devices use AirPlay, they aren't the same.
I can stream music from iOS to Apple TV but was under the impression that Apple TV can push to other "speakers" (Airport express as an example). Is that not true?
Even so I cannot get the airport express to show in speaker section on my Apple TV.
They both show on my iOS as options to stream to.
Would be great if I could just choose 2!
Any suggestions on tying the two sets of speakers together?
Macdermant wrote:
I can stream music from iOS to Apple TV......
How do you do that.
iPhone - using Pandora app go to volume section choose Apple TV as speakers and the music starts playing. I just want it to play in 2 places at once.
Perhaps that is a unique feature of that app, I don't have it and wouldn't know, Are you sure you don't have a black Apple TV.
Actually works with all apps.
No it's white as snow and much larger than the black ones.
I didn't know if anyone with black Apple TV had been able to stream to a remote airport express.
It may depend which Airport Express you have.
I'm fairly certain I used to be able to send to my old b/g Airport Express from AppleTV1 but may be wrong as I've not tried recently.
The old Express and AppleTV 1 used Airtunes protocol and I had assumed that Airplay was a superset of that and that Airtunes like functionality would still work over Airplay for audio. Video Airplay does not work with AppleTV 1 as far as I'm aware unless there's be a recent iOS change that somehow allows it on old AppleTV software.
A new or recent Airport Express probably uses the newer Airplay protocol for audio and may not be detected by the original AppleTV. I don't have one to test (new Express).
Apple have mucked up somewhere along the line with retaining backwards compatibility for some of the newer devices with older peripherals. My b/g Express isn't even detected by Airport Utility on OS X these days - I've had to install an old version of Airport Utility to use it.
AC
I'm also not certain that AppleTV 1 will allow you to stream to it via Airplay/Airtunes AND relay it to another speaker - synced material would work fine, can't recall about streaming audio shared from itunes, but relaying an iOS stream to another device might be one step too many.
AC
Apple TV send to Airport Express Speakers?
