28-Nov-2015, 20:03
(28-Nov-2015, 08:44)Bownose Wrote: AirPlay is easy enough with an airport express (costing $79 or so) and using the optical feed into any of the phantoms or dialog, phantom auto switches when you send music to it. I personally don't use Spotify but the optical in and Bluetooth means I never have to use the Spark app when using Raspberry Pi, AppleTV 4 via Aex and AirPlay also via Aex.
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I know an Airport express is yet another thing to buy but this has several advantages, firstly apple changes the protocols in the OS and in the receiver, so much so that unlicensed AirPlay implementations such as those in Kodi get broken, so if you are Apple end-to-end, the onus is on Apple to maintain stability and reliability.
Bownose, intriguing. Had not ida.
Quick questions if you don't mind.
1. How does this work. Does your Mac connect to the airport express wirelessly, and can broadcast all the computer sounds to the airport express? And then airport express output the music via optical to Phantom?
2 Does your description of how airport express work with Windows also?
Thanks!
