Airfoil 4 - Get Your House Rocking

Boston, MA - Rogue Amoeba is excited to announce Airfoil 4, a major upgrade to the premier tool for streaming audio around the house. Originally designed to send any audio to Apple's Airport Express router (which supports only iTunes by default), Airfoil has grown to support streaming to the Apple TV, as well as other computers running Airfoil Speakers (on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux), and even to iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Airfoil sends any audio, everywhere.

The Airfoil 4 update starts with a big update to Airfoil Speakers, which enables you to receive audio on other computers in your house. Just run Airfoil Speakers, and Airfoil will send audio from your Mac to any machine on your network!

With version 4, Airfoil Speakers can initiate a connection back to Airfoil, so you can tune in to audio without dashing back to the Mac running Airfoil. Even better, Airfoil Speakers offers remote control of selected sources, including iTunes and Pulsar. Pause playback, or skip tracks, from across the room or across the house. Airfoil Speakers also features an updated interface, which shows useful metadata about the audio being played, including track information and album artwork when available. Couple that with the beautiful new level meters and the remote controls, and Airfoil Speakers is one powerful little companion to Airfoil.

Airfoil Video Player, the second of Airfoil's companion applications, has also received a major update with version 4. Using Airfoil Video Player, you can watch video on your Mac while audio plays through any remote speakers, all in sync. It's always supported local files and DVDs, but this upgrade brings support for watching web video as well!

That's right, with Airfoil Video Player's new Web mode, you can watch TV shows on Hulu or movies via Netflix. Play them right on your Mac's gorgeous screen and send the audio out to your remote speakers. Airfoil Video Player will sync it all up, for the perfect viewing experience. This update also overhauls the player for local files and DVDs to give better control.

Airfoil 4 also offers many other improvements, from a streamlined interface to better audio grabbing from applications like Google Chrome, as well as all System Audio. And when the new crop of third-party AirPlay receivers from companies like iHome and JBL finally arrive, Airfoil 4 will be ready to support them as well. All this combines to make Airfoil 4 the best version of Airfoil yet!

Key Features In Airfoil 4

• Play audio across your network, to a whole host of devices, all in sync. Supported remote audio outputs include iOS devices, others computers, as well as Apple TVs and AirPort Expresses.

• Receive audio on other Macs on the network with the enhanced Airfoil Speakers. You can connect directly from Airfoil Speakers, see what's playing, view album art, and even control playback remotely.

• Use Airfoil Video Player to watch video locally, with remote audio, all in sync. View web video from sites like Hulu, Netflix, YouTube and more, along with local files and DVDs.

• The updated Instant On extra improves grabbing audio from the entire system, and from specific apps like Google Chrome.

• In addition to AirPort Expresses and Apple TVs, Airfoil 4 will support forthcoming AirPlay devices from companies like Denon, JBL, and iHome.

• Version four is optimized for, and exclusively available on, Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

• Dozens of smaller improvements and enhancements are also included.

• Like a puppy, Airfoil can't do the laundry or take out the trash, but it will love you, happily and forever.

• Oh man, what about a puppy that does the laundry and takes out the trash? How great would that be? Maybe even greater than Airfoil 4. It'd be close though.

Links & Information

Airfoil 4 is available immediately for Mac OS X 10.6 and up. A free trial is available for download, and new users can purchase Airfoil through our online store for just $25. While in its trial state, Airfoil will overlay noise on all transmissions longer than 10 minutes.

Owners of older versions of Airfoil can upgrade for just $10. For those who purchased after November 1st, 2010, their license key will already work with version 4.

Airfoil for Mac information link: https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac

Direct download link: https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/download.php

The full Airfoil 4 release notes: https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/releasenotes.php

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High-quality Airfoil Video Player icon: https://rogueamoeba.com/global/images/icons/512/airfoilvideoplayer512.png

Rogue Amoeba Background

Rogue Amoeba Software, LLC is a privately held software company, based in the USA with offices around the globe. Since 2002, we've been making tools for Mac OS X to assist users with all their audio needs. In that time we've delighted thousands of users and received some of the highest honors in the industry. Our product line includes our wildly popular Audio Hijack Pro and Radioshift for Mac audio recording tools, our streamlined audio editor Fission and our AirPort Express extender Airfoil.

For more information on Rogue Amoeba Software, please visit: https://rogueamoeba.com/company/.

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