Airfoil offers separate volume controls for every device available as an output source. Is a digital ventriloquist that lets you throw your computer’s “voice.” The latest version builds on the foundation of letting you take a single app’s audio output and route it to one or more places to play it back. It's something like iTunes multi-“speaker” support but with much more control and it works with any application, all while not relying entirely on AirPlay. • Airfoil for Mac version 4.8.5 or later, or Airfoil for Windows version 3.6 or later. • Your remote device must be connected to WiFi on the same network as the computer running Airfoil. Please be sure to see this posting for important usability tips about the app. Airfoil can target any AirPlay destination, as it’s long been able to. In my house, that includes an older and current-generation Apple TV, a Yamaha stereo receiver during a brief period of rudimentary but functional AirPlay support, two computers via (also discussed in this review), and a Jawbone Mini Jambox (via Bluetooth). Airfoil Satellite can stream to iOS and Windows 10 devices and Airfoil Speakers in Android. That’s a lot of options. Airfoil 5 runs on a Mac (or the similarly updated ) and can dynamically turn on and off available audio output devices. Every speaker has a separate volume control that lets you balance sound. You can also lock these adjustments to system output, so you can raise and lower all volume by adjusting your OS X’s control. The input to Airfoil 5 can be any running app or, amusingly, any input source. If you’ve got a microphone, you could use Airfoil 5 as part of a public address system (albeit with some delay). You can also select System Output, the aggregate total of all sound in OS X that’s directed to the default audio device, and then distribute that among other speakers and systems. The new Groups option lets you create collections of speaker combinations you use routinely. The secret sauce in Airfoil is how it keeps everything in sync: It tries to determine and match latency—the delay between data being sent and played as sound—to the most-lagging device. This generally works, even as it introduces a slight delay whenever you press play, pause, or switch audio inputs. It’s worth it to avoid the weird echo effect that otherwise can occur. In testing, it worked like a charm, creating rich, broad sound. Airfoil routes stereo sound by design, although encoded audio (like Dolby Digital) may make it through intact from a source to a destination capable of decoding and playing it as intended. Rogue Amoeba tells me that they don’t test for this feature or support it, so don’t rely on it. If you have trouble with a given output’s sync, a new Advanced Speaker Options dialog (in the Speakers menu) lets you tweak the delay. That menu also lets you hide speakers that you never want to use with Airfoil, reducing clutter in your output display. More new features A new system menu provides access to almost all Airfoil 5’s features without switching to the main app. Bluetooth support is new and extremely welcome, given all the Bluetooth-connected speaker and headphone options now available. Any device paired with your Mac can be selected in any combination. Another useful new feature is Audio Groups, set in Preferences, which lets you name a set of speakers making it just a single click to swap among preset collections. Yet another set of new features is also in Preferences in the Automation tab. Airfoil can be set to automatically begin transmitting to a selected set of speakers when it’s launched, so this is a way to set up your preferences without clicking a thing with Airfoil as an OS X startup item, or whenever you launch Airfoil. The same tab also has an automatic disconnect option which releases remote speakers that can only accept one source at a time after Airfoil has been transmitted silence for a set period of time, which defaults to 5 minutes. Airfoil Satellite Airfoil Satellite refreshes earlier software that turns a computer or iOS device into a remote speaker for Airfoil.
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