Airfoil for Windows 3.2
Released on 2/3/12
- Airfoil can now capture audio from Airfoil Speakers.
- Airfoil now uses a brand-new audio capture engine, for better performance.
- Airfoil's interface is now resolution independent, and fully compatible with Windows text scaling.
- Airfoil can now instantly mute all active speakers.
- Airfoil is now compatible with applications using the FMOD audio library, including Qobuz.
- Several small Equalizer bugs have been fixed.
- A bug where Airfoil would erroneously report a firewall issue has been corrected.
- A bug which could cause Airfoil to crash on machines that didn't have sound devices has been fixed.
Airfoil for Windows 3.1.3
Released on 11/17/11
- A bug that caused iTunes and iOS to not recognize Airfoil Speakers on machines with multiple active network interfaces has been fixed.
- A bug which could cause installation to stall (on "Installing Prerequisites") has been fixed.
- The Effects window is now available from the main Airfoil menu.
- The installer's size has been trimmed by stripping out unneeded parts of the SlimDBX library./li>
- A bug where Airfoil would immediately disconnect when a hardware device was the audio source has been corrected.
Airfoil for Windows 3.1.2
Released on 10/19/11
- Airfoil now works around an issue where pulling audio from Spotify could fail.
- A bug which caused certain unicode characters to display incorrectly in Airfoil has been corrected.
- Airfoil Speakers now has a manual Check for Update button in the Preferences.
- Airfoil Speakers now has a Statistics option in its menu, for debugging. Access it by shift-clicking.
Airfoil for Windows 3.1.1
Released on 10/12/11
- Airfoil now works around an issue where Internet Explorer playing Pandora would produce corrupted audio.
- A problematic memory leak in Airfoil Speakers has been fixed.
Airfoil for Windows 3.1
Released on 9/26/11
- Airfoil Speakers now has support for receiving audio from iTunes and iOS applications, via the AirPlay protocol.
- Airfoil now has full support for third-party AirPlay devices.
- An issue where Spotify might not properly transmit, caused by Spotify's silent auto-updating, has been worked around.
- Screen reader support is now much improved.
- Airfoil now features an in-app support form.
- A bug in the SSR parser which caused metadata updates to fail after a short time has been fixed.
- The installer has been completely re-written and is much friendlier.
- Airfoil Speakers now has its own stand-alone installer.
- Smarter errors are now shown for incorrect license keys.
- Airfoil can now send anonymous usage data.
- Airfoil now targets the .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile.
- Airfoil now installs the DirectX Runtime on computers that don't already have it.
- Airfoil now uses updated DirectX libraries, offering more memory efficiency and other performance benefits.
- Airfoil Speakers now requires a license key, and attempts to receive it from SSR senders.
- Airfoil's window positions are now remembered between launches.
- Airfoil Speakers will attempt to recreate its Bonjour record if Airfoil for Mac loses its connection.
- A bug in the installer that may have left files behind on uninstall has been fixed.
Airfoil for Windows 3.0.2
Released on 7/13/11
- The "Link Volume to System" feature has been fixed to work properly on all systems.
- Users on systems with incorrect settings causing Airfoil to draw incorrectly will now receive instructions to fix those settings.
- Several rare crashes will no longer occur.
Airfoil for Windows 3.0.1
Released on 7/11/11
- A problem where output devices would fail to properly appear in Airfoil has been corrected.
- A bug where audio would not properly transmit to some AirPort Express units and Apple TVs has been corrected.
- An issue with window resizing on certain graphics cards has been corrected.
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Airfoil for Windows 3.0
Released on 7/6/11
- A revamped interface makes Airfoil easier to use than ever!
- Airfoil Speakers can now initiate a connection to Airfoil - with one click, you can receive audio on a remote machine.
- Airfoil Speakers now offers remote control of some applications, enabling you to play, pause, skip forward, and skip back.
- Airfoil Speakers also features a greatly improved interface, showing track titles, album art and other metadata when available!
- Airfoil now sends track titles, artwork, and other metadata to Apple TV and Airfoil Speakers.
- Several icons from Airfoil, including the Windows source icon and the Windows monitor icon, have been improved.
- Many other small issues have been fixed.
Airfoil for Windows 2.8.3
Released on 4/1/11
- Airfoil once again fully supports pulling audio from Google Chrome, after automatic updates to Chrome 10 broke this functionality.
- Airfoil now accepts AFFP- license keys.
- A bug which could cause Google Talk to crash has been corrected.
Airfoil for Windows 2.8.2
Released on 2/2/11
- Airfoil can now hijack Google Chrome properly on Vista.
- If it's transmitting, Airfoil now warns before quitting.
- Skype 5 is now excluded from Airfoil's Instant Hijack, to fix a conflict.
- Outputs are now properly sorted alphabetically.
- Network troubleshooting messages have been improved.
- A crash that could occur if the computer was put to sleep in the middle of resolving a Bonjour service has been resolved.
- A crash that occurred for people running Airfoil with .NET framework 2.0 that didn't have SP2 installed has been fixed.
- A bug which could cause Airfoil Speakers to crash due to audio devices disappearing has been fixed.
- A bug that could cause Airfoil to crash related to sleep has been fixed.
Airfoil for Windows 2.8.1
Released on 12/10/10
- Airfoil's License window text has been updated.
- The Debug window now has a Factory Reset button.
- A crash caused by other programs locking the local audio output device has been corrected.
- Pausing the source for extended periods of time now works as expected, with audio flowing to remote speakers when the source is unpaused.
- It's now possible to auto-transmit to more than 10 sources if desired.
- A crash related to OnActivateWaitHandle has been fixed.
- Airfoil no longer crashes if a user's WMI permissions aren't adequate to enumerate sub-processes.
- Airfoil now handles restarting Spotify properly.
Airfoil for Windows 2.8
Released on 11/19/10
- Airfoil can once again capture audio from all major web browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Google Chrome.
- Airfoil now has full support for AppleTV v2.
- The device through which audio from Airfoil's Computer audio output plays can now be adjusted in Preferences.
- The device through which audio from Airfoil Speakers plays can now be adjusted in Preferences.
- Applications on Windows XP that used DirectSound, such as iTunes, now behave correctly when Airfoil stops hijacking.
- Airfoil Speakers now shows correct time when streaming past one hour.
- Airfoil's Installer now prompts for reboot only when necessary, rather than forcing it.
- A problem that caused warbling in local playback has been fixed.
- Windows XP users with Safari as default browser will no longer see error messages when checking for updates.
- Various minor crash bugs have been corrected.
Airfoil for Windows 2.7.8
Released on 7/22/10
- Several issues with the licensing system have been addressed.
- Remaining issues with browser opening code have been fixed.
- The error message for banned keys has been updated.
Airfoil for Windows 2.7.7
Released on 7/1/10
- Airfoil's networking code has been improved for stability and better error reporting.
- A crash which could occur when the computer running Airfoil went into hibernation and then woke has been fixed.
- A crash caused by corrupt user settings file has been fixed.
Airfoil for Windows 2.7.6
Released on 4/7/10
- Airfoil now has full support for Airfoil Speakers Touch running on the iPad.
- Airfoil now properly remembers passwords for password-protected AirPort Express units.
- An occasional crashing bug seen when connecting to AirPort Express devices has been fixed.
Airfoil for Windows 2.7.5
Released on 9/24/09
- Airfoil now has initial support for the forth-coming Windows 7.
- Several minor issues with the installer have been rectified.
- An issue where audio devices would not be properly remembered has been fixed.
- A problem with the resampler, causing rare audio corruptions when hijacking non-44.1 khz audio streams , has been fixed.
- A conflict between Windows Genuine Advantage and Instant Hijack has been fixed.
- Applications providing multi-channel audio can now be properly hijacked (receiving the first 2 channels).
- A problem where hijacked applications were unable to launch 64-bit child processes has been fixed.
- Windows Media Player can now be hijacked in Windows 7.
- An issue where some computers (particularly EEEpcs) would have unreliable playback, due to audio skipping because of drifting clocks.
- Error handling for firewalls and dropped connections has been improved.
- Airfoil now suggests restarting after Instant Hijack is disabled.
- Resampling has been added to local playback, to account for sound cards with bad clocks.
Airfoil for Windows 2.7.1
Released on 6/25/09
- Airfoil is now compatible with AirPort Express 7.4.2 firmware and Apple TV 2.4 firmware.
Airfoil for Windows 2.7.0
Released on 4/17/09
- Airfoil now supports Airfoil Speakers for iPhone - transmit audio to your iPhone or iPod Touch!
- A problem where Airfoil would not connect to a password-protected speaker if the password was entered in-correctly on the first connection attempt has been corrected.
- An issue where an erroneous 'Speaker Error' messsage could appear has been fixed.
- A problem where Airfoil could become unstable after the computer hibernated has been fixed.
- Several other bugs and crash fixes have been made.
Airfoil for Windows 2.6.5
Released on 2/27/09
- Airfoil Speakers has been updated with minor interface changes and other fixes.
- A crash that could occur if no local speakers were available (if not sound card was present, for example) has been corrected.
- A crash when a "speaker removed" message was received over Bonjour has been corrected.
- A socket error-based crash that could occur when Airfoil received 'Speaker Error: error sending audio' has been corrected.
- Hijacking Internet Explorer on Windows Vista now functions fully.
- A bug where speakers could be improperly removed without disconnecting has been corrected.
- Several power management issues have been resolved.
- Audio no longer loops with Direct Sound applications and Instant Hijack.
- Airfoil no longer attempts to hijack 16-bit applications.
- Airfoil is now properly limited to one running instance.
- Many rare crashes and bugs have been fixed.
Airfoil for Windows 2.6.2
Released on 9/23/08
- Speaker passwords now saved correctly between Airfoil sessions
- Speaker effects settings now saved correctly between Airfoil sessions
- Speaker volumes now saved correctly between Airfoil sessions
- Speed up connection to remote speakers
- Several crashes fixed
- Improved Hijacking, including, but not limited to, Media Monkey, Rhapsody, and J. River Media Center.
Airfoil for Windows 2.6.1
Released on 9/23/05
- Removed an erroneous expiration date
Airfoil for Windows 2.6
Released on 8/12/08
- Entirely recoded in .NET for easier updates in the future
- Support for additional audio players, including foobar2000
- Improved Apple TV support, with better metadata
- Improved sync of local audio playback
- User interface improvements
- improved handling of firewall problems (IPv6)
- DCOM API for automation
- Uses DirectSound for audio device input
Airfoil for Windows 2.5.1
Released on 3/18/08
- Now supports transmitting audio to 802.11n AirPort Express units!
- Several minor bugs in Airfoil Speakers for Windows fixed.
Airfoil for Windows 2.5
Released on 2/20/08
- Now supports transmitting audio to the Apple TV!
- Now includes Airfoil Speakers for Windows
- Now fully supports Airfoil Speakers for Mac
- Updated interface with icons for remote speakers
- Many minor bug fixes
Airfoil for Windows 2.0.2
Released on 10/25/07
- More reliable sync with local speakers.
- Fixed a bug where Airfoil would lose sync after disconnecting and reconnecting from remote or local speakers.
- Fixed a bug preventing auto-connection on startup from working properly
- Fixed a bug where Airfoil would occasionally fail to connect on slower computers
- Fixed a crashing bug
Airfoil for Windows 2.0.1
Released on 8/14/07
- Several major bug fixes for dealing with firewalls and networking
- Now properly sees Airfoil Speakers running on Mac OS X
Airfoil for Windows 2.0
Released on 7/26/07
- Now optionally sends audio to multiple AirPort Express units, in sync
- Now optionally plays audio locally, via Local Sync support
- Fully supports the AirTunes 2 protocol
- New Audio Effects to adjust audio
- Redesigned dialog boxes on Vista
Airfoil for Windows 2.0 Beta 3
Released on 7/18/07
- Bug Fixes relating to multiple units
Airfoil for Windows 2.0 Beta 2
Released on 6/30/07
- Audio Effects static fixed.
- Resampling (static on some computers) fixed.
- Several other bugs squashed
Airfoil for Windows 2.0 Beta 1
Released on 6/15/07
- Multiple Unit support
- Local Sync support
- AirTunes 2 Compatible
- Audio Effects
- Redesigned dialog boxes
- Support for AFS
- No longer improperly accepts SSME- license keys (Airfoil for Mac keys)
Airfoil for Windows 1.1
Released on 4/30/07
- Full Windows Vista support
- Added Exclude List to prevent hijacking of specified applications
- Added optional stat collection
- Minor bug fixes
Airfoil for Windows 1.1 (Vista Public Beta 3)
Released on 3/31/07
Airfoil for Windows 1.1 (Vista Public beta 2)
Released on 3/22/07
Airfoil for Windows 1.1 (Vista Public Beta 1)
Released on 1/8/07
- Preliminary Vista support
Airfoil for Windows 1.0.5
Released on 10/11/06
- Improved Hijacking with iTunes 7, Pandora, Last.fm, and Musikcube
- Pandora in Internet Explorer no longer cuts out after the first song.
- Fixed a menu-drawing bug
- Fixed several crashing bugs that were oddly preventing some applications to load.
Airfoil for Windows 1.0
Released on 8/14/06
- Improved support for pulling audio from many applications
- Added additional functionality to the System Tray menu
- Fixed static from cetain applciations
- Fixed rare crashing with odd audio formats
- Fixed audio capturing from sound card devices
- General user interface improvements and bug fixes
Airfoil for Windows 1.0 Public Beta 2
Released on 6/15/06
- Added "Minimize To System Tray" preference
- The source can now be changed on-the-fly, by adjusting the Source selection menu.
- New Audio Hijack backend, to improve hijacking from many applications.
- Fixed a bug causing Airfoil to not appear in some instances
- Force-restart of applications before hijacking, if Instant Hijack isn't enabled.
Airfoil for Windows 1.0 Public Beta 1
Released on 5/12/06
- First release - it's all new.