AirPort Express doesn't stream music
Using an AirPort Express, an 802.11n, set up with an existing router (a Linksys), I don't see a setting for Cient mode to use it for streaming audio to my stereo. How do I do it?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Using an AirPort Express, an 802.11n, set up with an existing router (a Linksys), I don't see a setting for Cient mode to use it for streaming audio to my stereo. How do I do it?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Is client mode exclusively for cable-connected streaming? If it is, that's not what I want to do. I'm trying to use it in an existening network as a music streamer.
mgod99 wrote:
Is client mode exclusively for cable-connected streaming?
No, not at all, it's totally unrelated to Internet music. An Express in client mode will stream iTunes music from your Mac Pro just fine.
If you have a MacBook Pro (early 2011 or newer), or similar age iMac, Mini, or MBA, and you upgrade to Mountain Lion, all system audio can be directed to your Express using AirPlay Mirroring:
About AirPlay Mirroring in OS X Mountain Lion
... but anything running any recent version of iTunes can stream music to the Express.
Thanks, but soemthing appears to be missing. I'm running Snow Leopoard, 10.6.8, and although the Airport Setup Utility says, under music, that I can now select the Airport in the lower right window of iTunes, there's nothing there; nothing to select.
Also, how do I stream websites from my Mac to the stereo?
To stream sources outside of iTunes you will need a third-party solution, like Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil.
Have you tried to connect to the ape in router mode without it connected to the linksys? Have your Mac connect directly to the ape wirelessly. Then test airplay. It should work. After you prove the ape is functioning correctly then you will have to connect ape to linksys in bridge mode. With airplay all devices have to be in the same subnet range.
If you use a /16 subnet you may be able to have the linksys use 172.16.0.1 and the ape use 172.16.1.1--then the providers router as the gateway of 172.16.0.254
/16 is 255.255.0.0 subnet mask
/23 is 255.255.254.0 this might be even better.
Another possibility is to get a AirPort Extreme and apple has it set up easy for connecting an apexpress to a apextreme.
Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about. I have an Airport Express, and a Mac, and it doesn't work.
I guess first I need to know: in 10.6.8 is there supposed to be something in the lower right of iTunes? Because there isn't.
btw, my question isn't solved, I hit a typo.
Guess I'll go to a non-Apple site for help.
AirPort Express doesn't stream music