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iPhone & Airport Express – A Perfect Match to remote control & stream your iTunes Music

I bought a Airport Express Base Station from Apple to replace my old Linksys wireless router yesterday. This is not the first time I use Airport Express to setup my wireless network. It’s actually the first wireless router I purchased (but it’s cracked accidentally) to migrate from cable to Wi-Fi. So, why consider Airport Express again after Linksys?

For those of you who do not know about Airport Express, it is a 802.11n wireless router from Apple. It’s lightweight, small in size and all-in-one (no external power adapter) wireless router. Airport ExpressThe performance of Air Express may not be the best of class among other 802.11n base stations, according to PC Magazine’s review. It, however, offers a distinct feature that differentiates itself from the crowd. Think about that, you have tons of songs on iTunes but sometimes you don’t want to sit in front of your computer and listen to music. You want to enjoy the music with your high-end stereo speaker sitting in living room. Airport Express offers a simple way to stream your favourite music from iTunes to your stereo speaker wirelessly. That’s truly amazing! I can now stream my music from my reading room (my iMac is there) to living room without connecting any wire or cable (of course, except the audio cable to my music system) and listen to all favourite songs.

One limitation of Airport Express is you cannot change song while you’re sitting on sofa in living room. You still need to control music playback using iTunes in front of your computer. Something is missing here… Yes, it’s a “Remote”! But, now with iPhone and the “Remote” application from App Store, iPhone becomes the remote control. You can completely control your iTunes music remotely. Now, you know, the reason I purchase Airport Express again. I highly recommend this wireless configuration. Lie on the sofa and enjoy the music!

iPhone as Remote to control iTunes music playback

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  • wesley

    Any chance you could bypass the computer and stream directly from the iphone ipod?

  • http://Advanced-garden.com Idahoant

    Airport express is great and yes, when can I conect to it from iPhone?

  • TK

    Yes, when I can I just stream from my phone directly? Why do we need the middleman-mac in there?

  • Bill

    A rather strange solution, to control iTunes on a computer via an iPhone that has iTunes built-in.

    Probably designed by a ‘remotely brilliant’ nerd who flushes his turd by walking to the kitchen to tap a bucket full of water, instead of using the lever on the toilet itself. And probably thinking he is brilliant, wetting his pants the way back.

  • peter

    well, only if you operate in 2,4 ghz g-mode… n-mode wont work with the iphone. very upset about that. by the way: are you paid by apple?

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  • David Blackburn

    This is stupid. Why do I need my computer on and iTunes open to stream music from my APPLE iPhone to an APPLE Airport Express Adapter? The only reason I can think of is that both are connected through iTunes so they can monitor what I stream in my own house.

  • dave gates

    yes you can use airport express with your iphone itunes and not use the computer itunes

  • Stefan

    Old article, but anyway… I’m using three express, a normal router, one mac, one pc, iPhones, an ipod touch and an iPad. I can stream music all over the house. Can have iTunes running on both the mac and pc, sending different music to separate expresses. At the same time as I’m streaming music to the iPhone from one of the computers and sending music to the third express from an iPod… Truly amazing actually.

    It even works when I share music from the pc to the mac to send it to an express.