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- Price: Free to try $25.00 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 PPC/Intel/10.6 Intel
- Date added: December 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 6,746
- Downloads last week: 33
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 5 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on November 16, 2009
An Airport Express will let you listen to iTunes over your home stereo speakers. Airfoil is an application that takes that simple functionality and (as it were) turns it up to 11. The iTunes-Airport Express combo is perfect for listening to iTunes on your nice stereo--but what if you want to hear music from a browser-based app like Pandora? Or Sirius Radio through an app like StarPlayr? Airfoil lets you send audio from any application (or even your system audio) to your Airport Express, so you can use your stereo for anything from RealPlayer and QuickTime to browser apps like Pandora. When you option-click the source menu, you can choose from all background processes, including virtualization programs like Parallels or VMWare. If you have Airfoil for iPhone, you can even send audio to your iPhone.
Airfoil also lets you send synched audio to multiple Airport Express units all over your house, as well as to Apple TVs and even other local computers (Mac or PC, all you have to do is install the free Airfoil Speakers mini-app). On top of that, Airfoil comes with a built-in video player that lets you play video on your computer with synched audio--so you're no longer stuck with using headphones or your built-in computer speakers to watch movies. Unfortunately, the trial version only gives you a draconian 10 minutes of playback. That's enough to show you what Airfoil can do, but it might not be enough to convince you that it's an app you can't live without.
Publisher's description
From Rogue Amoeba Software :Send any audio to AirPort Express units, Apple TVs, and even other Macs and PCs, all in sync! It's your audio everywhere! With Airfoil you can take audio from any application and send to your AirPort Express units, as well as Apple TVs, and even other Macs and PCs running Airfoil Speakers! Transmit audio from RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, and other media players. Send audio from web-based applications like Pandora, Last.fm, and other to the AirPort Express. You can even stream audio from audio devices like RadioSHARK, XM and Sirius radios, around your house.
What's new in this version:
- Airfoil and EyeTV from Elgato now work great together - when transmitting audio from EyeTV, Airfoil will adjust the local video to play in sync with remote audio!
- Pulling audio from VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop is now much simpler - simply set Fusion or Desktop as the source in Airfoil's Source pop-up, and Airfoil will handle the rest.
- A bug where transmitting Front Row without Instant Hijack installed would fail silently, instead of presenting an error, has been ... see all new features
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