Chrisreunion wrote:

What is the difference between Airport Express & Airplay? If it suffers the same sound delay between the main product & linkrooms fed by an Airport Express base for instance, I won't use it, that's one reason why I'm not having any Airport Express base at the moment..If the sound delay issue has been solved, then it could become an interesting solution.

Going back to B&O's digital approach, I don't understand why they don't leave the hardware to other companies, and simply fit all their BeoSounds & BeoVisions with USB or Ethernet inputs(or wi-fi receivers), so that each product accesses a local USB device, or distant network drive, for audio file playback on BeoSounds & video file playback on BeoVisions...is it so complicated? The rest of the world manufacturers are offering this today..🙁

Yes the delays and constant outages were intolerable for me.  I had a 3 zone airport express network set up and it was bad.  Finally, I broke down and got a Sonos setup and it is quite amazing.  I love the ability to stream Pandora for free which is incredibly cool.  I know the quality isn't lossless but it is great for casual music and especially discovering new bands/music.  Plus, you can send different music to each separate zone.  

More squeaking from the broken record (i.e. me):

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/16/apples_ambitious_airplay_airprint_plans_detailed_in_patent_applications.html

BeoNut1 --  Earlier this year, Meridian launched the following app for Sooloos, and together with a number of other manufacturers, they are adopting the standard for playback Apple is developing.

Is going to be interesting if Airplay actually works.

Airtunes/Airport express wasn't for quite a few people. Honestly I would happy if they could bring out a proper remote app for the Ipad since the music has to be in itunes anyhow.

jk1002 wrote:

Is going to be interesting if Airplay actually works.

 

Airtunes/Airport express wasn't for quite a few people. Honestly I would happy if they could bring out a proper remote app for the Ipad since the music has to be in itunes anyhow.

sudden burst of rumours and speculation about hidden capabilities in iOS 4.2 and what it means for AirPlay and video ..... see

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sudden burst of rumours and speculation about hidden capabilities in iOS 4.2 and what it means for AirPlay and video ..... see

Trip, can I respectfully disagree around your analysis of this.

The iPod as the Audio Master is pre- August 2010. You'll see these products very quickly replaced by Wireless receivers. The market will shift very quickly on this. I'd suggest as much as 25% in time for Christmas selling season. And you are right, this is the lower end of the market - but also the higher end in respect of the bedroom and kitchen markets.

Can I ask, how many of your $500k customers have not digitised their music and stored it on a PC/Mac somewhere? I just don't understand why you say that they are not concerned about how their library is stored and leveraged across home and mobile devices. I hope nobody really uses a BS5 as a starting point as that would be content suicide in my opinion. I have to have my content stored in at least 3 places to feel comfortable - the value is almost irreplaceable. The best solution is 2 places in the home and 1 out in the cloud. I'm glad to see B&O are learning here as can be seen with the Encore and NAS support - but its still too little and remains a relatively fragmented environment for digital content.

Soundproof,

Thank you for showing that Meridian software for the iPad - that is just one example of what I suspect will be an onslaught of high-end audio companies embracing some of these new standards to make sure their products aren't "left in the cold" when it comes to integrating with the digital world.

If that weren't proof enough, the Apple-centric websites that weenies like me peruse to keep up with the latest Apple rumors (much like I do here at Beoworld to keep up with the latest B&O offerings) are abuzz with the gradual realization that AirPlay may very well represent the standard by which easy home-electronic integration is finally facilitated (think fridges, air conditioning, etc.).  In typical Apple fashion, AirPlay (IMHO) is another Trojan horse which is much more than it might seem on the surface.  It would appear that, once again, Apple is several chess moves ahead of the rest of the industry.

Is there any way that we can contact someone at B&O and beg them to please, please, please look in to adopting this standard?

Mark D

If I understand correct airplay seems to be able to stream to existing airport express stations. Which means its the same crappy solution that Itunes has. I can stream videos from Itunes Library to Itunes Library today as well, I haven't tried streaming onto my generation 1 ATV yet but I am guessing that would work as well.

So the only news is really that wireless streaming now runs on an iphone/ipad.

Which means it probably doesn't work for me as neither my airport express stations nor my ATV does pick up streamed music flawlessly.

That said, i live in a condo building with many wifi networks around.