iPhone == AirTunes
Posted November 26th, 2007 @ 04:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
The thought occurs to me that the device I first talked about in January has come about in terms of hardware: it's an iPhone (or an iPod Touch).1
It's just missing the software.
I wonder if software of this variety will be possible as of February…
Footnotes
- Yeah yeah, it's a little bigger than an iPod Shuffle-sized version, which I still think would sell (a Shuffle with WiFi, that is), but that's okay.↩
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Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 11:42am #
There's already software for the iPhone that allows it to transmit items from your on-phone library to an Airtunes receiver. The other way around isn't yet cryptographically possible unless Apple releases it.
For whatever reason, the Airtunes protocol uses different keys when it sends or receives music. The keys necessary to transmit music to Airtunes have been reversed and released publicly. As far as I've seen, the keys to receive music streamed from the latest version of iTunes have not yet been reversed.
Posted 26 Dec 2007 at 7:34pm #
Have you had any luck with this yet? I just got an iPod Touch, and one of my first thoughts was that it would be incredibly cool to be able to use it as a source for my Airport Express.
If it's not currently possible, I think I'll have to see what I can get working - I know that Airfoil is able to transmit arbitrary audio to an Airport, so it should just be a case of doing some research and finding out how they're doing it.
Jon
Posted 27 Dec 2007 at 3:08pm #
Zachary Bedell said on November 27, 2007:
Where?! To me thats the more useful way round - and its certainly feasible as a 3rd party app (as airfoil and the works of DVD Jon show) but I haven't come across an ARM compiled version or any app that runs on an iPhone/iPod Touch (I presume it'd have to be a terminal app to begin with?)
Posted 27 Dec 2007 at 5:40pm #
JP - I'm not convinced there actually is any software to do this from an iPhone. Airfoil will do it on a desktop Mac, but I've not found anything from MobileMacOS.
It looks like I'll have to work it out myself, and I've registered a Google code project to keep track of things. No code yet, but I'll try to get something working over the weekend. http://code.google.com/p/airpod/
Posted 27 Dec 2007 at 7:30pm #
I wait with baited breath! Student or not I'd happily buy/donate for such an app (and there are no doubt hundreds more that would too)
I imagine you'd have to write a new app, rather than attempting to modify mobilemusicplayer, mind you, if it stores music data in a format similar to iTunes it can't be hard to grab the tracks, cross compile something like DVD Jon's Justeport and build a menu... hmmm, maybe it might be a little tricky
Good luck!
Posted 08 May 2008 at 9:07am #
still no app to stream from iphone grrrrrr
Posted 22 Jun 2008 at 9:56am #
i would buy an iphone for this very reason if this feature was supported
Posted 11 Jul 2008 at 7:33am #
It looks like Apple have (kind of) sorted this out.
You can't stream from your iPhone/iPod straight to Airtunes, but the latest firmware release does include the Remote application, which will allow you to use your iPhone to control an iTunes library (or AppleTV), and crucially includes the ability to choose which speakers your sending the music to.
I'm now just waiting for the chance to try it out in the living room, streaming from my machine upstairs.