Comments on: Introducing Airfoil Speakers Touch!

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:57:48 +0000

Okay, scratch that last idea. Setting all the output devices in Airfoil back to “Available” does not stop the Live365 player from playing. So the Mac will stay awake and stream the music indefinitely. I will just keep using the iTunes Timer widget to put the computer to sleep after a designated period of time. But at least I can stream right to the Touch now. :)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:41:14 +0000

Thank you for the Airfoil application. I use it almost every day to stream my Live365 Radio application to my Apple TV and/or Airport Express. It will be great to be able to stream to my Touch as well. As far as remote capability, I can see where a simple feature would be useful. It would be handy if the Airfoil Speakers Touch program could tell the Airfoil application (on the computer) to stop transmitting and set all the devices back to available status. I listen to music on the first and second floors of my home, and the computer is in the basement. If I am leaving the house, or if I am nodding off in bed, it would be helpful to stop Airfoil remotely. Then the computer would go to sleep on its own due to the Energy Saver settings. Again, that is just something to put on a wish list. Please keep up the great work!

By: Paul Kafasis

Paul Kafasis — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:43:23 +0000

Apoorv Khatreja: Only the Touch can run apps, so that's something to consider. As for Airfoil on the iPhone, please see this in-depth post Tim de Ville: By that same logic, when would you ever use an AirPort Express, or stream audio at all? Airfoil Speakers Touch lets you send audio to your iPhone - how you use it is up to you, but as you can see, plenty of people are excited. The AirPort Express is great, but it's not portable - you can't wander the house with it in your pocket. As for an Airfoil remote, that's a very different set of functionality from Airfoil Speakers. It's something to consider, but it's not the focus here, currently. Phil Bridges, Aaron, Marco Arment, Alex Fajkowski, spungee, William, Brad, Kevin, Alan Rothberg, tcb: Enjoy, tell your friends, and leave a positive review in the App Store! Logan, sibe jan: Get in touch with us directly for support, and we'll go from there. Matt: Airfoil works with AirTunes devices - a BlueTooth device wouldn't fit with that at all. As for sending from the iPhone to your Mac, via BlueTooth, the app still doesn't have the needed access to audio. olivier: Unfortunately, Airfoil Speakers won't be recognized by iTunes, and that's on Apple. That said, you can certainly use all this with iTunes. Set iTunes as your source in Airfoil, then transmit to Airfoil Speakers Touch. With the "Automatically transmit to" preference in Airfoil, you can have audio sent any time Airfoil Speakers Touch launches.

By: olivier

olivier — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:52:46 +0000

Hello, thank you for this great app!

A little off topic but I have a feature request : it would be awesome if Airfoil speaker can be decteted as an Airport Express by iTunes and so by the iPhone & iPod Touch app “Remote”. Like that, I can choose to which speaker in my house is sended iTunes music directly from my iPhone via Remote.

Thank you!

By: tcb

tcb — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:27:29 +0000

This is a great app. Works great for me! I can stream to AppleTV, Airport Express, Other Macs, and now iPhone. Thanks for such a great app.

PS/ Please take all the criticism/suggestions with a grain of salt. Some of these commentors will never be satisfied. They are already complaining about features they would like to see in the app. It has only been out for a few days. Theyre will be future versions with more functionality, be happy with the features provided. This is an awesome app, and you cant beat the price!

By: sibe jan

sibe jan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:58:41 +0000

hmmm – doesn’t work for me (iPod touch 2nd gen.) when i connect my headphone to my touch, and stream from my macbook, touch tells me he is transmitting, but my earphones don’t give any sound…

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:53:50 +0000

This might be a completely stupid but i know the new iphone update supports AD2P so couldnt it be possible to make a program for the mac that acts like a bluetooth speaker? Then you could select that app on airfoil and you would be playing your music from your iphone over the airport express.

By: Logan

Logan — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:38:45 +0000

Great app but using it with my itunes it skipping every 2 mins or so. Using an ipod touch, macbook pro and a time capsule. Even when using a computer to computer network I’m still having the same problems.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:46:42 +0000

Ryan – As far as iTunes control, you can go into the Airfoil preferences on your computer and tell Airfoil to automatically transmit to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Once that’s done you can utilize the Remote app that Apple released like you stated to change the songs within iTunes, and then relaunch the Airfoil Speakers app and it will then automatically connect.

Obviously you miss the first like 3 or 4 seconds of the song, but whatever.

Anyway, this program is awesome. Thanks guys!

By: Alan Rothberg

Alan Rothberg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:37:11 +0000

Thanks guys, this is great! This is why I own several of your products – you never stop improving them. Thanks also for making it free, that’s just icing on the cake.