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Supported apps for an enhanced experience with Airfoil for Mac

Airfoil for Mac can stream audio from just about any application running on your Mac. Airfoil also supports an enhanced experience for many popular audio applications, offering both metadata and remote control.

These MacOS applications offer an enhanced experience with Airfoil:

Airfoil Satellite

Audirvana

Apple Music

Downcast

Hermes

Last.fm

Mix16 (Pro & Go)

Radium

Spotify

Swinisan

TV

VLC

VOX

An enhanced audio receiving experience

When you stream audio from supported sources through Airfoil Satellite (or the older Airfoil Speakers), an Apple TV, or many third-party AirPlay devices, you’ll see enhanced metadata, including track titles and album artwork. These outputs will also be able to remotely control audio playback in the source application.

With Airfoil Satellite for Mac receiving audio from the Music app, via Airfoil, album art and track titles are being shown in Airfoil Satellite. Remote control buttons are also available within Airfoil Satellite to control playback in the Music app.

Web-based audio and BeardedSpice

Airfoil itself is not able to gather metadata or provide remote control of web-based audio. However, it is possible to get an enhanced experience while playing audio from supported sites that integrate with BeardedSpice.

The free BeardedSpice application can run in the background to control web-based media players. If it’s running when you select a supported browser (Safari or Chrome) as your source, Airfoil will communicate with BeardedSpice to provide metadata and remote control of the audio in the browser.

For more details, and a list of supported websites, see the BeardedSpice page.

Track titles only

The following applications provide Airfoil with some amount of metadata (track titles and/or album art), but cannot be remote controlled:

• djay Pro AI
• Farrago
• Megaseg DJ
• Megaseg Pro
• Radiologik

Remote control only

The following application can be remote controlled by Airfoil, but does not provide metadata:

• QuickTime Player

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Supporting additional apps

Let us know any audio application you'd like to see work with Airfoil Satellite!

If you're a developer who makes an audio application, you can integrate with Airfoil and Airfoil Satellite as well. Start with this blog post, and send us an email.

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