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another question form me.. (surprise surprise)
some of you maybe aware i be moving house soon...
and in my new house my hifi and my mac are going to be a good 10-15m apart but all my music is on my mac...
is there anyway of streaming audio from my mac to my hifi?
I see the airport with itunes will do itunes but what about VLC/QT/any other audio that might come out of my mac?
or do i really have to buy a big ol' phono to 3.5mm cable???
ano no. I can't use the inbuilt speakers in my mac, they are shockingly bad to say the least.
danke
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Posted: 2007-07-01 13:08:58
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I believe the onl way is to use a 3.5 cable, I use a airport express for my music, but all sound comes out of my mac other then music. The same with the roku I had
As you have a imac its probally best to just use a phono cable
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Posted: 2007-07-01 14:22:21
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Oh joy...
*looks for a big ol' phono cable*
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Posted: 2007-07-01 14:30:10
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You can use AirFoil to stream any audio to an Airport Express
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/
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Posted: 2007-07-01 14:30:26
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ahh coolio cheers jools..
I'll have a wee look into that then...
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Posted: 2007-07-01 14:43:03
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When using airfoil you will find that you will have to tweak the audio delay in vlc as it does not sync well with the video its got a lag of a couple of seconds.
I just use a media server for all my video etc and leave my express just for itunes. Well worth the buck if you ask me, actually if you going to buy an express you might just want to buy this.
http://www.kjglobal.co.uk/acatalog/TVIX_PVR_M-5030P.html
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Posted: 2007-07-01 14:49:37
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hmmmmmmmm.....
I'll have a look at that too...
cheers themarques
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Posted: 2007-07-01 15:00:27
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How about something like this?
http://store.apple.com/Apple/[....]/RSLID?mco=94606497&nplm=T8541
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Posted: 2007-07-01 18:49:01
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That will only transfer his audio in low sound quality (FM) you really want to look at the express or the media server I linked you too, I have a similar version and I use it to stream, if you have the 802.11N on your mac you should be good to stream HD to the box alternatively DVD's and other lower bitrate stuff can be streamed at pretty much 802.11G Speeds. Well worth it plus you can use the hard drive to back up but dont quote me on that yet as the guys are working on ftp transfer.
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Posted: 2007-07-01 19:17:22
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Ok I am after adivce for the best way to get my house system setup. I currently have a macbook and am going to get an imac (waiting for updated version). I want to be able to share all my media between the two (movies in a variety of formats, itunes library & photos) I also want to be able to display all of the above on my lcd tv.
Now I was thinking of doing this by getting an airport extreme base station with an external harddrive attached to this & then apple tv for the lcd. So three questions: 1) will this setup do what i want? 2) is there a cheaper way to acheive this setup? 3) is there a better way to acheive this setup?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
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Posted: 2007-07-03 12:14:33
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