Yes! According to iHome, the long awaited iHome iW1 is available Wednesday, August 31st at 2PM EST. From iHome: “The wait is over! We’re excited to announce that the iW1 AirPlay wireless speaker system will be available for purchase Wednesday, August 31 at 2PM EST at ihomeaudio.com/iW1BC. Due to your overwhelming response on the mailing…
We’re thinking of adding a store to AirPlaySpeakers.com where you can purchase AirPlay enabled speakers, devices and more and wanted to get our users feedback on the idea. To start, the store will showcase all the available products and provide links to where you can purchase them from, like Amazon and Apple and much like…
Pioneer announced four new AirPlay capable additions to their lineup of Elite AV Receivers. The Elite AV receivers feature Apple AirPlay, DLNA, Bluetooth (with optional dongle), internet radio and Marvell Qdeo video processors. Just like with any AirPlay device you’ll be able to wirelessly stream your music over WiFi to these receivers. Plus you’ll be…
Sonos added AirPlay support in software update 3.4. You’ll still need to connect an AirPort Express to a Sonos ZonePlayer but once connected you can stream to all Sonos players. The good people at Pocket Lint provide a nice how-to guide here. Full details of the Sonos 3.4 software release can be found here: http://sonos.com/support/software_update.aspx…
Apple keeps raising the bar with its latest iOS software upgrade, 4.3, for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Whats new in iOS 4.3? iTunes home sharing Home Sharing allows you to play your collection of music, movies, photos and podcasts from anywhere in your house without the extra step of having to download or…
As expected, CES 2011 saw the release of more AirPlay enabled speakers from manufacturers like Klipsch, iHome, B&W and JBL. Since then, there hasn’t been much to report on in the World of AirPlay speakers, so I wrote up the following summary of our findings from the past few months. If something excites you, click…
So now that you’ve gotten your hands dirty with AirPlay, and are eagerly awaiting the first AirPlay enabled speakers to roll off the production lines, what do you want to see AirPlay do that it doesn’t already do? To help you get started here is our wish list below: Allow streaming to multiple devices (including…
Dave asked earlier if Apple’s AirPlay was able to stream to multiple speakers (or devices) from iOS. It is a good question that we didn’t have the answer to so we decided to find out for ourselves and post our findings (including a workaround) below. Since there are currently no available AirPlay speakers, I…
