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.

July 28, 2008 | Filed Under Writing

Comments

John Elliott on August 6th, 2008 7:35 pm

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

primitive machine on August 12th, 2008 3:45 am