There’s another way to make sure your music’s wherever you are in your house: go wireless with AirPlay. Formerly known as AirTunes, AirPlay lets you set up iTunes to stream your music library throughout a home network using a $99 AirPort Express.
Connect your AirPort Express to your receiver or powered speakers using cables like Apple’s $39 AirPort Express Stereo Connection Kit, which gives you the choice of either stereo RCA (analog) or optical Toslink (digital) connections. You can also install additional audio hardware or stream to an Apple TV for multi-room audio. The new black Apple TV can also stream video.
Apple’s AirPort Express Stereo Connection Kit connects your speakers to your AirPort.
Sign in here, AirPort Express.
Add the AirPort Express to your home network with AirPort Utility (under Applications > Utilities). Name the Express whatever you’d like and assign a password; for AirPlay, select “Join a wireless network” on the second and third screens, then select your network. A minute or so later, you’ll be ready to rock.
From iTunes 10.1 or later, click the AirPlay icon in the lower-right corner of the window (if it’s not there, turn it on by clicking the checkbox at iTunes > Preferences > Devices). Then just select the device you want to send your audio to. A TV screen icon indicates a video-capable device (like the new Apple TV); a speaker icon designates audio only. Choose Multiple Speakers to send music to several devices simultaneously. You can control the volume for each one with a slider.
This pop-up lets you choose where iTunes sends your music.
gryphster
February 14, 2011 at 7:22pm
Huh?
"So the easiest solution is to purchase an AirPort Extreme and a NAS (short for “network attached storage”) drive, keep your library on the NAS, and use MediaRover to make sure all your computers use that one central library."
Easy as pie.
JohnnyMan
February 10, 2011 at 10:25am
Thank you for these types of articles. I am a relatively new user (2 years) and I can't get enough of these "How to" types of articles.
Thanks again.
Dp aj4
January 26, 2011 at 4:56pm
After doing the 4th tip under "terminal tricks" to create a stack for recent items, my iMac won't respond. HELP!!! can anyone help me to recover. Did anyone actually test these "tricks".
Guess I should know that executing a command with'kill' in it wouldn't be a good thing
jerryfx
January 19, 2011 at 1:28pm
I have had a problem with the data on my Mac not synchronizing with the MobileMe site. Repeated resets did not seem to help. However, I have found that restoring my iCal data from the saved archive before resetting/restoring to MobileMe seems to do the trick. Very strange, but it seems to work.
Blskny
January 19, 2011 at 9:32am
Keep trying to put the spacers in the doc. Love the organization tool but it is not working. Here is the message I keep getting:
2011-01-19 11:24:13.499 defaults[43792:903] Could not parse: {"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}defaults. Try single-quoting it.
I changed the double quotes to single quotes but it is still not working. Would really appreciate clarification.
THANKS!!!
veri
January 15, 2011 at 3:37am
You forgot an easy fix for most software issues:
Delete (or better yet; rename) the applications settings folder from your library. This forces the application to rebuild it, and it usually fixes any issues with corrupted or obsolete settings.
In most cases, the application will start to behave properly again.
