Send music to AirPort Express from wired computers

Mar 25, '05 09:48:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

This may be common knowledge, but I didn't find out about it until I was messing with my Airport Express yesterday. You can now use your AirPort Express as both a wireless access point and send music to it from wired computers via its ethernet port. I believe when the AirPort Express originally came out, this was not supported, only computers hooked to the network via wireless were.

I ran the Airport Admin Utility and went to the Music tab and saw the option "Enable AirTunes over the Ethernet port". I selected it (you also must select "Enable AirTunes on this base statiion"), clicked the update button and the name of my Airport Express came up in iTunes on my wired iMac as a music destination. I plugged my Airport Express into my stereo and it works great, though I reduced the line-out level by turning on the equalizer, selecting the flat response curve and turning down the preamp all the way.

[robg adds: I'm not sure either if this was originally there or not; if someone knows for sure, let me know and I'll either remove this comment, or remove the hint if this is a standard, known feature...]

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