Airfoil + (n * Airport Express) + PDA = Poor Man’s Sonos? January 16, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : apple, gadgets , trackbackRogue Amoeba recently updated Airfoil to version 2. One of the big additions in this release is the support for streaming music from any application (inc. iTunes) IN SYNC to multiple Airport Express’. Now this got me to thinking, “I wonder if a combination of Airfoil (running on a Mac natch, the Rogue Amoeba lads are exclusively OS X), multiple Airport Express’, and a PDA running the Salling Clicker remote control software could be cobbled together to make a poor man’s Sonos Digital Music System?”
Significantly, Airfoil won’t send separate audio streams out at the same time (I believe), but still,
it got me to thinking it would be very cool if it could!
Of course, all the newly minted Web 2.0 millionaires out there who can afford houses big enough to require multi-zone audio systems are probably just going to spring for the real thing, but it ain’t cheap at $1199USD for the introductory two player bundle.
BTW, check out Audio Hijack if you don’t already use it, it rocks.
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