This is a problem caused by Apple, not by Rogue Amoeba - all apps do this when the remote is used - but that doesn’t make it any less annoying. Worse, the iPod will start playing the first track in its library. If you do, Airfoil Speakers Touch will quit and the music will start blaring from your laptop’s speakers instead. If you are using the Apple Remote, make sure you don’t press anything but the volume switch. That’s it for controls, and that’s where the annoyances start to creep in. You can control the volume using the on-screen slider and, if the iPod is in a dock you can use the Apple remote to control the iPod’s master volume, too. They can be switched off in the preferences, here: Those bars you see are level-meters which jump up and down, 1980s-style, in time with the music.
There’s also an icon to show you which application is sending audio (again, in this case it’s Spotify). The picture shows the correct model of the computer sending the audio and even a snap of the screen (here you see Spotify running). Notice, though, the neat touches that start even here. That’s pretty much it for the basic functions. Fire the application up and the iPhone is immediately recognized by the mother ship, like this: Enter Airfoil Speakers Touch, an iPhone version of the free Airfoil Speakers app which turns a Mac, Windows or Linux box into an audio receiver. It even does video, something even Apple can’t manage from iTunes. This is solved by an application called Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba (OS X and Windows), which takes the audio from any application and streams it to the remote speakers, or even another computer on the network. Get your music from anywhere else and you’re back to running cables. The trouble is, this only works with iTunes.
I have a couple of airport express units hooked up and either I or the Lady can send tunes to them. I’m a heavy user of Apple’s Airtunes, the magic which lets me stream music to multiple speakers around the house. Essentially, this application turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into an Airport Express. To owners of Apple Airport Express users, this might seem familiar. The iPhone application receives audio wirelessly from your computer and plays it either through its built-in speakers or via the headphone jack. Airfoil Speakers Touch does one thing, and it does it well.
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