I thought I could stream all of my music from my Mac to my AirPort Express, but I can’t send my Pandora music to it. I’ve looked all over my AirPort Utility settings and my System Preferences, but there’s no way for me to stream Pandora to it. What gives?
Out of the box, you can only stream iTunes music to your AirPort Express Base Station, which has an audio out port for connecting to a stereo or set of speakers. If you want to send Pandora to your AirPort Express, your best bet is to purchase PandoraJam ($15, bitcartel.com).
PandoraJam is the ultimate Pandora companion. One of its many features is the streaming your Pandora music to your AirPort Express.
PandoraJam is a native Mac OS X application that not only lets you stream your Pandora music to your AirPort Express, but also gives you dozens of extra features that you won’t get from the pandora.com website. For example, PandoraJam lets you record and tag your music for later playback on your iPod; it lets you use the Apple Remote to control your music; it gives you Growl notifications of your currently playing song; and it can update your Twitter/IM status as well.
Airfoil can stream any audio to your AirPort Express, Apple TV, and even other Macs.
If you want to take your AirPort Express streaming even further than Pandora, check out Airfoil ($25, rogueamoeba.com). Airfoil lets you stream any audio from your Mac to your AirPort Express, even audio output from websites and applications. You can even simultaneously stream audio to multiple AirPort Expresses, other Macs, or Apple TVs.
bfriesen
January 28, 2012 at 11:39am
Just recently discovered that Airfoil is no longer supporting "older" versions of Mac OS. Basically anything before Mac OS 6, they announced that they officially will not support.
CarlGAz
August 18, 2011 at 6:38am
I have found an easy and free solution for the Ipad - stream music to your airport express first through your ipod screen, then switch over to the pandora app - the ipad seems to leave the airport express selected as the destination without resetting back to the internal speaker or headphone jack.
jhcarter
August 01, 2010 at 9:43am
It should be noted that you can control Pandora with the Apple Remote (hardware) NOT the Apple Remote app for iPhone. It cost me $15 bucks to find this out.
