My problem started when I moved and changed my whole set up. I used to have my TV speakers linked up directly to my computer due to their proximity. After my move, however, I was forced to make my speakers TV-only. My Mac Pro was left speaker-less. I plugged in my MacBook to the speakers’ receiver, and since iTunes 9 I have been able to stream all of my music and videos directly to the TV and those nice speakers. However, I have very particular iTunes habits. I rely on smart playlists which most rely on their play count and play date. As nice as iTunes Home Sharing is, it doesn’t affect my music’s metadata, hence rendering my playlists useless.

Enter Airfoil. This application is amazing. The application is a two-parter. There’s Airfoil and Airfoil Speakers. Copy Airfoil Speakers to any Mac in your network, and Airfoil will see it as remote speakers. You can send audio to that other Mac from virtually any application; iTunes, Safari, QuickTime, RealPlayer, you name it.

It also has many little features that make your life a lot easier. By default Airfoil lets you control the volume level of each audio destination, which is awesome. But you can also link up the audio to your main system’s audio so that you can control the audio with your keyboard, rather than having to go back to Airfoil every time to adjust the volume.

The application costs just $25, but if you need something like this, that’s nothing. Make sure to give it a try. The demo version will stream audio for 10 minutes. Airfoil is available for both Mac and Windows.

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