I got an
Airport Express unit for Christmas, yippee! Finally the massive wealth of songs on my iMac are flying through the air and spilling gloriously from the speakers in my living room. It's awesome! Although setup was a little funky with my aging wireless router, once I got it working I was amazed at how simple iTunes makes it to switch between speakers via AirTunes, and how nice the music quality is.
Especially cool is that, with one stationery and two laptop computers in the apartment, it's simple to control the flow of the music via shared libraries. Keeping a laptop in the dining room, for instance, makes it easier to play DJ without going to the office on the other side of the apartment when a track needs skipping.
But even BETTER, I'm using
Remote Buddy on my
iPhone to control the tunes. I can use it to change
AirTunesspeakers from my office to the living room easily, and navigate through my playlists to find what I want to hear. Then it offers a simple remote-control interface to control the song or volume. This app is almost freaky because you can operate all kinds of apps via...