iPhone Remote App with Airtunes
There’s no doubt that Apple’s Remote application for the iPhone is pretty nifty. It lets you control your iTunes from anywhere within your house or wherever you’re connected to the same WiFi point, giving you a really cool smart remote. (It even lets you control the playback of video, give ratings, etc.)
One thing that I think many people haven’t yet seen is that it has full support for Apple’s AirTunes technology – that is, where you have an Airport Express connected to a pair of speakers anywhere within the WiFi network, and iTunes will relay the audio through those speakers wirelessly.
So, using the Remote app, as you can see above you can choose the (truly geekily named) Airport Express to pump out your audio, disable the Computer audio output, and take a book and your iPhone to relax with your music away from the computer. Nice.
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Good observation, I haven’t seen this mentioned yet! I recently bought a linksys router, but an express would be a good addition to my setup. How spoiled are we?! This is awesome! I’m posting this to primitivemachine.net.
John
I have an airport express hooked up to my amp in the living room, my music library on the iMac upstairs, and use Remote to control it all from any room in the house using my iPod touch. What I can not do, however, is directly route music from my iPod to my stereo through the Airport Express. If I could, I would control playback on my home stereo of Pandora, Rhapsody and Last.FM from my iPod apps. Now that would be super cool. And kill off any need for iTunes and buying music, which is why I can’t see Apple ever approving a true Airtunes app for the iPhone or touch.
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