That would still be useful to send your own music from the iPhone to remote outputs around the house. Instead of working with all audio, we could just work with iPod music. Legally, however, it would completely violate the SDK agreement. We have code that does this on the Mac and Windows and there’s no technical reason it couldn’t be done on the iPhone as well. We want you to be able to transmit Pandora, AOL Radio, and any other audio application. The biggest hurdle preventing Airfoil for iPhone is that we can’t access other applications’ audio. The problem is that due to Apple’s iPhone SDK agreement and the way the App Store works, it is simply not possible for us to create an Airfoil for iPhone worthy of the name. Better still, we’ve had heard hundreds of requests for it from you, our users. It sounds great, and we’d love to make it. The control Airfoil for iPhone could provide would be astounding, and it would all be in the palm of your hand. You could control audio for your whole house, by transmitting your favorite playlist from the iPhone to multiple AirPort Express units. If you’ve got a great new song, you could send it to your friend’s Apple TV while you visited. It would enable you to send any audio from the iPhone to remote outputs, just like on the Mac. My vision of Airfoil for iPhone, however, is actually quite similar to Airfoil on the Mac. It could also be a remote control for a copy of Airfoil running on a desktop. Prior to Apple’s Remote.app, it might have been a remote control for iTunes running on a desktop machine. People actually have a few different ideas on what Airfoil for iPhone would be. Unfortunately, right now, it’s not feasible. Without a doubt, we’d love to make Airfoil for the iPhone. We even talked about it way back in February, before the iPhone SDK had been unveiled. We’re currently working to make the iPhone and iPod Touch available as output sources in Airfoil for Mac and Airfoil for Windows, just as we’ve done with our Airfoil Speakers on other platforms.ĭiscussion of Airfoil Speakers for the iPhone inevitably leads to questions about making Airfoil for the iPhone. Over on our Twitter account, I’ve posted about some of the testing we’re doing for Airfoil Speakers on the iPhone. Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 12th, 2008
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