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iPad question
Posted by Brianr on 26 December 2010 - 11:30pm.
Having discovered the remote app this evening I am on a roll. Is it possible to have my mac on in one room but play the songs on my iPad in another? What kit do I need to achieve this?
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Couple of good apps for this...
...are AirVideo or StreamToMe. They each work on iPad and iPhone and each require you to run a small server process on the Mac to serve up specific directories of content (though the StreamToMe server, ServeToMe, finds your iTunes content by itself). Also, you're not limited to be on the same home network, you can be anywhere in the world and stream from your home over the Internet (so long as you configure your home router accordingly). Hope this helps!
Would you recommend stream
Would you recommend stream to me as the best option then? Also I have an orange live box but this is a wireless router Would I need and airport express to send the music out of the mac wirelessly?
Ditto!
My iPhone just got 25% more amazing.
Thanks for StreamToMe
Awesome App.
Stream to me
Works a treat for £1.79! Technology is great isn't david
thank you so much - you have just made a small man very happy!
Have you noticed it doesn't
Have you noticed it doesn't stream all tracks from iTunes though? I have some artists with stuff missing or is it me doing something wrong?
Content that ServeToMe won't serve up...
...is, I think, basically just iTunes video and audio that has Apple's DRM (i.e. copy protection) on it -- anything that shows up in iTunes that has a 'Kind' value that contains the word 'Protected'. This is because Apple doesn't let any third parties integrate its DRM. AirFoil (as mentioned by tonyg below) wouldn't, I believe, have this problem because it integrates into the OS at a lower level.
Airfoil
I am using Airfoil for this. It will transmit audio from iTunes, Spotify Safari Last FM etc to my Airport Express as well as to the iPhone or iPad. Another useful tool for the iPad is Rowmote which I use from anywhere on the wireless network (usually the kitchen) to wake up the Mac and launch iTunes. I then use Apple's Remote to control the Itunes library. Rowmote also acts as a wireless trackpad to control the Mac - a much cheaper alternative to the Magic Trackpad. It seems to do all the same things - providing you've already got the iPad of course.