How to stream Spotify wireless to your stereo?
From your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch?
It is easy to stream wireless from your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad to your Apple TV or Airport. Works great! As soon as the iPod, iPad, iPhone finds the Airport / AppleTV, a new icon appears in the “play-mode” of Spotify. Click it, choose your device and listen to Spotify on your stereo. Wow!
From your PC or LapTop?
The simplest thing to do is to use an Apple AirPort Express or AppleTV. You can use the wireless (Wi-Fi) network and send music to the AirPort Express or AppleTV, which will forward it to the stereo.
The Apple products were built to function natively with the music program iTunes, but there’s a program called AirFoil ($25, free trial, Mac/Windows/Linux) which allows you to capture the sound of a program (like Spotify) and send it to an AirPortExpress or AppleTV.
Via wired.co.uk
Hot off its American debut, music streaming service Spotify hasopened up its API to iOS developers, so app makers can tap into the 15 million song archive in their own iPhone and iPad creations.
It means creators could make music visualisation tools for your library of tunes, alarm clocks that switch on a Spotify playlist at 8am, apps that feature a curated slice of the gargantuan multi-million song archive, or simply a native iPad version of the streaming service — which Spotify has so far failed to provide.
“We hope this will enable a new category of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch applications with Spotify inside,” writes platform director Sten Garmark, “and allow for more immersive music experiences within iOS apps.”
Via BusinessInsider
Apple finally dished all the details about it’s iCloud music service yesterday.
Since it was the first company to get all four major record labels on board, Apple is able to push it’s library of 18 million songs to any iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
This is similar to what Spotify users in Europe have been enjoying for awhile now. We’ve had access to Spotify for a few weeks now, and based on what we know about iCloud, we still think it’s a much better service.
Read more, including the reasons that make Spotify beat iCloud …
- iTunes does not stream music
- Spotify will do “scan and match” better
- Spotify lets you stream or download any song to your device at no extra cost
- You can create better playlists with Spotify (even if you don’t own the music)
- Spotify does social much better than Apple’s Ping
- Spotify integrates with Last.fm
- Spotify also works with Shazam
How to stream Spotify wireless to your stereo?
From your PC or LapTop?
The simplest thing to do is to buy an Apple AirPort Express. It’s a little wireless network router that you put next to your stereo and plug in using a regular audio cable. You can then use the wireless (Wi-Fi) network and send music to the AirPort Express which will forward it to the stereo.
The AirPort Express was built to function natively with the music program iTunes, but there’s a program called AirFoil ($25, free trial, Mac/PC/Linux) which allows you to capture the sound of a program (like Spotify) and send it to an AirPortExpress.
From your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch?
The newest version of the Apple IOS 4.2 makes it possible to stream wireless from your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad to your Apple TV or Airport. HotSpotify just tested this with an iPod Touch and Airport Express connected to a stereo-system. Works great! As soon as the iPod finds the Airport, a new icon appears in the “play-mode” of Spotify. Click it, choose your Airportand listen to Spotify on your stereo. Wow!
The newest version of the Apple IOS 4.2 makes it possible to stream wireless from your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad to your Apple TV or Airport. HotSpotify just tested this with an iPod Touch and Airport Express connected to a stereo-system. Works great! As soon as the iPod finds the Airport, a new icon appears in the “play-mode” of Spotify. Click it, choose your Airport and listen to Spotify on your stereo. Wow!
It’s long been rumoured that Apple will launch a streaming music service to rival Spotify. Now the company states that there will be “an exciting announcement from iTunes” tomorrow with the headline “Tomorrow is just another day, that you’ll never forget”.
Let’s just wait and see …
Update (November 16th)
The unforgettable iTunes announcement was the arrival of the Beatles to the store. No streaming announcement, no subscription service. Let it be.
How to stream audio to your stereo? SimpleEdtions thinks streaming to Airport Express is by far the best solution. Not only for Mac, also for PC!
The AirPort Express was built to function natively with the music program iTunes, but there’s a program called AirFoil ($25, free trial, Mac/PC/Linux) which allows you to capture the sound of a program (like Spotify) and send it to an AirPort Express.
The AirPort Express can either extend your current wireless network, or act as a new wireless network if you don’t already have one. It also gives you a cable slot for your printer, so that you can print documents from any computer in your network.
YOU NEED
- Apple AirPort Express ($99)
- AirFoil ($25)
- A PC or a Mac
PLUS AND MINUS
- + Very simple and intuitive
- + Works with both PC and Mac
- - A bit expensive ($99 + $25)
- - Can’t stream from your mobile phone
All in all, if you only plan to stream from your computer(s), we believe that this is by far the best solution.
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AirPort Express is in Nederland het goedkoopste bij Chear.nl – 77 euro
(volgens Tweakers pricewatch)
