[gui-talk] Fwd: Create a stream inside your home

[Steve Pattison]

This isn't mentioned in the message but this product can be downloaded
from www.rogueamoeba.com.  -Steve.

 From:    Dane trethowan dane.trethowan at me.com
 To:      VIP L vip-l at softspeak.com.au

Howdy!

I purchased a handy piece of software called Airfoil  yesterday and  
thought I'd give it a mini review as people may find it handy, the  
purpose of Airfoil is to enable the easy streaming of audio - and  
optionally video - from a computer to another device.  This may  
normally be another computer - say a Netbook, - you can let your  
imagination run free however as other devices are available for the  
Airfoil to stream audio to and I'll cover one of those in a few moments.

Airfoil is available for both Mac and Windows and - if you plan to use  
it on both Windows and Mac machines - then the "bundle" pack at $48.00  
is certainly worth the buy for both flavours of the software and a  
single user licence for each and that's what I've done.

So how to set Airfoil up? Its pretty much the same for both versions  
of the software, run Airfoil, select a source of audio for  
transmission, select your target and hit the transmit button, audio  
will start streaming from your source and about 2 seconds later you'll  
hear the audio through your target device or computer. The source can  
be a sound device or you can "Hijack" an application such as Winamp,  
Itunes, VLC, Windows Media Player and so on.

The target can be another computer running the company on "Airfoil  
Speakers" software or a completely independent device which hangs off  
your wired or Wireless network and such a device is an Apple Airport  
Express, you may find it advantageous to use An Airport Express  or  
similar device if you're planning to stream to a Hi-Fi set up or  
speaker system somewhere in the house, its cheaper than purchasing  
another computer or using another computer because you're using far  
less power <smile>.

The Mac version of Airfoil was perfectly accessible however the  
Windows version required me to do some tweaking with Window-Eyes, some  
re-classing of custom controls and some further labelling of controls,  
after I'd done that everything was perfectly accessible and easy to use.

This is just a brief explanation of the Airfoil software and the Apple  
Airport Express so I'll be happy to answer further questions if need  
be, I haven't purchased the Apple Airport Express as yet but I do plan  
to and I'll write a mini review of that when I get it.





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Dane Trethowan
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Regards Steve
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