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Air UPnP from Illustrate, the same company behind dBpoweramp, is currently a free product.Ĭonfiguration of the Apple Airport Express can be done by an installation wizard or manually. J River Media Center 15 ($50), and some previous versions, must be installed and the appropriate options must be enabled. I strongly encourage using the digital output via a Mini-Toslink to Toslink cable or standard Toslink cable and an adapter. It's possible to output analog or digital audio from an Airport Express. This $150 a la carte solution offers great music library management, excellent local bit perfect playback options, and can stream multiple tracks to multiple Ariports simultaneously.Īssuming computer audiophiles already have a Windows based music server the only hardware required, excluding cable, is an Apple Airport Express ($99). My preferred solution for streaming wireless audio from a Windows based computer is J River Media Center 15, Air UPnP, and an Airport Express. In addition learning a separate interface for wireless audio via Sonos or Logitech isn't a show-stopper but is far from ideal. Logitech and Sonos solutions are very good at what they do, but local library management is virtually nonexistent compared to applications like J River Media Center and MediaMonkey. iTunes and Airport Express on Windows is OK for broadcasting wireless audio and library management, but local playback (Windows only) is compromised without support for WASAPI, ASIO, or Kernel Streaming. The best solutions allow bit perfect local playback, flexible wireless playback, and good library management. For example iTunes & Airport Express, Logitech Squeezebox & Squeezebox Server, Sonos hardware & Sonos software.

#Illustrate asset upnp add genre software

Most of these methods require a unique software interface that's good only for specific wireless devices. There are many different ways to stream wireless audio around a house or to a HiFi system.

Simply connect the iPod to the dock, set J River on Random, and let the music fly while house guests wonder how much storage Apple has managed to cram into a device so small. This works great for users with an iPod dock connected to their HiFi system. As a bonus J River Media Center, in combination with PlugPlayer running on an iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad, can send audio via wireless straight to the Touch, Phone, or Pad. iTunes currently supports broadcasting only one song to all local and wireless devices. J river Media Center is also capable of sending different songs to several different Airport Express units simultaneously.

Using J river Media Center 15, an Apple Airport Express, and Illustrate's Air UPnP Windows users can send wireless audio around the house with no additional configuration necessary. In other words a $100 Airport Express for programs other than iTunes. Windows users are typically familiar with wireless products from Logitech and Sonos, but they are looking for something integrated within their playback application and not tied to iTunes.

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Wireless audio using iTunes and an Airport Express is old-hat to Mac users. Mac users usually sit back with a comfortable grin when such questions are asked. At most computer audio seminars I conduct Windows users ask about wireless audio.