Comments on: Airfoil 3.1 and Airfoil for Windows 2.5 Bring Apple TV Support

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:36:44 +0000

The Remster: Right now, we're not slurping any metadata out, from any source, so we're showing generic data (as seen in the screenshots here). In a future update, we may see about grabbing info from iTunes and other common sources, and displaying that. For now though, we're happy with what we've got.

By: The Remster

The Remster — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:21:19 +0000

Just saw the article on MacWorld.com today and having bought an AppleTV 2 last week, I am now able to play internet radio over my AppleTV. And I’m lovin’ it!
Anyway though that the song name gets shown on the TV screen as it appears it iTunes?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:14:43 +0000

Mike V: Isn't it great? That's Guy English's work - see his post for full information on it: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/02/21/your-screen-on-a-screen-on-screen/ Mister Snitch: Lots of people want to send unsupported video formats to the Apple TV, sure. But that's not really what Airfoil is about. Heck, that's not at all what Airfoil is about. The AirTunes functionality on the Apple TV means its set to receive audio, over an audio protocol. It doesn't open it up to receiving video from another source, in other formats. While I'd love to see this too, it's nothing we'll be enabling with Airfoil.

By: Mister Snitch

Mister Snitch — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:38:11 +0000

Um… any chance video would be added to Airfoil’s capabilities? Because the ability to send any video to Apple TV is what I (and lots of others, I’d bet) am really looking for.

By: Mike V

Mike V — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:08:14 +0000

Great work!! I love the graphic that gets sent to the Apple TV for my Macbook… complete with all of my menu bar icons and desktop wallpaper (yes, I looked at it that close!) Now I can play Windows Media and AOL Radio streams throughout my place, including my Apple TV in my entertainment center!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:46:12 +0000

John Muir: It definitely opens up lots of different setups for testing. But it’s not too bad.

matt: As we’ve said before, we’re waiting for the iPhone SDK. Once that arrives, we’ll see what happens with Airfoil and Airfoil Speakers for the iPhone. In the meantime, we’re doing plenty of other work.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:18:08 +0000

guys, we’re waiting for an ipodtouch/iphone airfoil… come on! Can’t you?

By: John Muir

John Muir — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:06:21 +0000

Macs to Windows to AppleTVs to AirPort Expresses: sounds like it was a lot of fun to test…