airport compability

maybe spotify could have some kind of collaboration with the airfoil developers to improve the performance and minimize the delay?

This is not really a spotify issue, this is about apple locking you inte their products. But there is a 3rd party solution, look into rogue amoeba's product called airfoil ( http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ ). Good luck!

I got AirFoil a while back but I never use it because of the delays getting audio to my speakers. Watching a YouTube video, the audio is out of sync. I feel, like papapepe, that it would be amazing to have AirTunes support, but I sympathise with how difficult this must be.

Actually, there's just the same delay with any app other than iTunes.
More accurately - it seems that iTunes tries to fool you by not starting the play clock ticking until AirTunes can actually start playing the track.

I got around this problem in a slightly silly but functional way:

Get a minijack-minijack cable and plug that into your lineout and linein ports (normally blue and green) on your computer.

Get the Shoutcast Winamp plugin and DNAS. Set the Shoutcast Source plugin to listen to the 'line in' signal. It's very important to set the encoder to 320kbps as otherwise it'll sound poo.

Listen to the stream with iTunes. (Advanced: Open Audio Stream - {localhost:8000})

This is all free and will sync all airports.

Maybe I should put a fuller guide somewhere... :)

Righty-ho!

Here's a guide I made for my colleagues at work. The first step applies to most PCs - just find the blue and green holes somewhere! :)

1. Get a cable with two mini-jack ends and shove it in the green and the blue holes at the back. There are programs that do this virtually, but they often need money to remove someone saying 'DEMO' every minute. Do tell me if you know of one (for PC).
2. Get a shoutcast server running.
I. Get Winamp plugin
II. Get DNAS application
3. Start DNAS. Edit the config so max users is 1. Then kill the server, and restart.
4. Run Winamp. Go to preferences and under DSP/Effect choose Shoutcast.
5. The config will appear, go to the Input tab, choose Linein, and there should be meters to show you're receiving sound.
5.5 Make sure your encoder is mp3 and the quality is 320kbps otherwise it will either not work or sound like poo.
6. Go to the Output tab and click connect. If it doesn't work you've probably not started the DNAS.
7. Press the YellowPages button and unclick make this server public.
8. Go to iTunes, Advanced: Open Audio Stream... enter localhost:8000.
9. If you're connected to remote speakers you should see and hear the music.
10. In Skype, turn off 'allow skype to change my audio settings' or otherwise it'll set the recording input to microphone every time you use it.
11. Oh and save the 'radio station' by dragging it to the sidebar or you'll have to type it afresh every time.

There is possibly a better way to this - it does work, although I have found that sometimes I have to set the priority of winamp to above average in task manager if I'm working on anything (ie loading Open Office sometimes causes a stutter).

There IS a massive latency so control the volume with iTunes. YO!

Hi

I use Airfoil with two airport-speakers to play Spotify. The sync is quite good. I've noticed that sync is better when playing from iTunes, but the delay is very small, only if you really ahve one ear on each speaker you could notice it, otherwise, it's the distance that also matter.

My son found a solution for me in seconds on Google - try using Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba on licence - costs about £20 and works perfectly via Airport to my B.& O. - I am very happy!
Gary

if you have an iphone/ipod touch you could always use airphones. that would stream your system audio to your ipod. if you hooked your ipod up to some speakers and did this, you might get the results you're looking for.

Hi. My name is Daniel and I am from Sweden.

I think I have the best solution of this problem. I bayed a product from "ROXCORE" and it works perfectly to stream music from you computer to your speakers. You'll simply get a USB-stick that you put into a free USB-port on your computer. And then you get a mini-receiver that you put near your hifi-receiver. Now you put the souncables from the mini-receiver to the hifi-receiver. This build a wireless connection from your computer to your speakers. It is not only Spotify's sound you can stream, but whatever sound you like from your computer. (exemple sound from a very cool computergame).
I bought this hole kit in swenden for 499:- swidish heads. It is about 70 us dollars. This is much cheaper and simplier then "Airport". And its very good quality and no delay. I could not hear a noticeable different between a cable and this.

I think this is a very new product on the market because I can't find it on the webb. But I bayed it on "Kjell & Company" in Sweden.
Please make a reply on this if you have tried it.

Daniel

Daniel