Tuesday’s Apple announcement held many goodies, but Apple seems to be going nowhere on Airtunes. Airport Extreme had been updated, but no Audio Out. And with my Airport Express, I cannot simply add more Airport Expresses to play the same set of music in every room of my house: Because iTunes and the Express use Apple Lossless compression to encode music (rather than native MP3 or AAC), you can stream audio to only one unit at a time (source). Dear Apple, wouldn’t you make a nice little plug-this-adapter-in-the-wall-and-get-audio-out Airtunes device that I can put in every room of my house with a stereo, and throw in a remote control or two in the package?
Get Well Tempered
Twitter: niklassaers
- Friday morning espresso. It's been a good week so far. Good morning, world. :-) #helloworld about 22 hours ago from Twitter for iPhone ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @basilshkara @akosma @iamleeg @0xced Cool, now I have no excuse not to endulge my wish for playing more with node.js ;-) 11:34:37 PM February 09, 2012 from Twitter for iPhone in reply to basilshkara ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @paulkent @GlennF That depends, was coffee included? :-) 10:49:44 PM February 09, 2012 from Twitterrific in reply to paulkent ReplyRetweetFavorite
- RT @standupmaths: My online mission to identify a phone thief is gaining some momentum! Blog-post with full story and video+photo here: ... 10:39:00 PM February 09, 2012 from Twitterrific ReplyRetweetFavorite
- I'll second that! :-) RT @whilethis At the risk of sounding like @dlpasco - I really love my job. 10:18:52 PM February 09, 2012 from Twitterrific ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @pinkcadillac Peis, whisky og nyinstallert dusj. Du må heller komme en tur forbi i Danmark, Jane :-) 10:18:05 PM February 09, 2012 from Twitterrific in reply to pinkcadillac ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @tonyarnold Been there, done that. ;-) Breakie sounds like a good idea. Go coffee! ;-) 10:15:20 PM February 09, 2012 from Twitterrific in reply to tonyarnold ReplyRetweetFavorite
- RT @jalada: How fucked is my NoSQL database? http://t.co/RBi7qiDl 10:13:17 PM February 09, 2012 from Twitterrific ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @djspiewak And you'll always wonder what thse complicated words really mean ;-) 10:11:50 PM February 09, 2012 from Twitterrific in reply to djspiewak ReplyRetweetFavorite
- RT @akosma: The C++0x version of Node uses lambdas. I expect someone to come up with "NodeObjC" using blocks. Like @iamleeg or @0xced #j ... 10:10:32 PM February 09, 2012 from Twitterrific ReplyRetweetFavorite
Get it here
I’m equally sad there’s been no Airtunes in the Extreme, but since iTunes 6.0.2 (and with up to date firmware) it has been possible to send the same music to multiple AEX units in addition to playing on your Mac/PC’s speakers.
There’s even a remote control available, though I’m not sure I can see the benefit. And compatibility with the Apple remote might be a neater solution.