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Dec 07, 2015 Airfoil Satellite turns your iOS device into an audio receiver. Send any audio from your Mac or PC to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, using Airfoil and Airfoil Satellite! You'll be able to send audio from any audio app, like iTunes or Spotify, as well as web-based sources like Pandora and more. Airfoil Satellite turns your iOS device into an audio receiver. Send any audio from your Mac or PC to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, using Airfoil. Airfoil Satellite is a free-to-use app that allows you to turn your Windows PC into an audio receiver. You may want to check out more software, such as PC Satellite TV Pro, Satellite TV Media Player or Airfoil Design Workshop, which might be similar to Airfoil Satellite.
Airfoil Satellite is a free companion for the program, available for iOS, Windows, and Mac. Receive audio and remotely control the tool on your iOS device or other computer! Send to AirPlay Devices.
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Rogue Amoeba Airfoil Satellite
Rogue Amoeba AirFoil 5
Airfoil 5 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 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 Airfoil Satellite (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.
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Airfoil 5 runs on a Mac (or the similarly updated Airfoil 3 for Windows) 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 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
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 works with a refreshed version of its remote speaker software, now called Airfoil Satellite. It’s available at no additional cost for OS X, Windows, and iOS. Airfoil Satellite can remotely have Airfoil send it audio if it’s not selected on the host machine, and can even remotely control Airfoil with essentially a duplicate of its main control interface. (Both options can be disabled in Airfoil’s preferences, too, if you’re in a more complicated network environment.)
With iTunes as the audio source, Airfoil Satellite can pause and resume playback, as well as jump back and forth a track. It also displays the now-playing track information.
Airfoil Satellite only works with the latest version of Airfoil. The older Airfoil Speakers software remains available for Android and Linux, and is also free, but can’t take advantage of the newer remote control and remote activation options.
Airfoil 5 is $29, or $40 in a Mac and Windows bundle. Purchasers of Airfoil 4 starting November 1, 2015, receive a free upgrade; contact Rogue Amoeba if email didn’t arrive with details. Owners of that release from before that date can pay $15 for the full version. A free trial download works identically to the paid version for 10 minutes and then overlays noise.
Bottom line
As a user of Airfoil for many years, this latest release’s new skin certainly makes it seem more up to date, but all the changes beneath the sleeker look make it more useful with a greater variety of audio devices and situations.
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Rogue Amoeba Airfoil Satellite
Rogue Amoeba AirFoil 5
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
Description
Airfoil Satellite turns your iOS device into an audio receiver. Send any audio from your Mac or PC to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, using Airfoil and Airfoil Satellite!
You'll be able to send audio from any audio app, like iTunes or Spotify, as well as web-based sources like Pandora and more. Hear your audio anywhere around the house!
Just connect your device to your local Wifi network, then open up Airfoil on your Mac or Windows machine, and start transmitting to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
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You'll be able to send audio from any audio app, like iTunes or Spotify, as well as web-based sources like Pandora and more. Hear your audio anywhere around the house!
Just connect your device to your local Wifi network, then open up Airfoil on your Mac or Windows machine, and start transmitting to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.
Get Airfoil right from our site:
https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
Airfoil Satellite: Another fine Rogue Amoeba product
What’s New
* A crash which could occur due to Airfoil Satellite's meters has been fixed.
* Small updates have been made to the documentation
* Small updates have been made to the documentation
81 Ratings
Lagged a bit before update, now lags more. Feels like a beta.
Using a MBP with Airport Extreme out multiple devices. When this app works it provides a nice experience having multiple speakers synced up throughout the house. Unfortunately it randomly glitches out under the current version, losing signal with the satellite devices and seeming to get out of sync, which sounds horrible until the app seems to fix itself.
I love the concept of this app and have high hopes the devs will continue to make it better, but at least with my current setup I will not use this with friends over due to how glitchy it is.
I love the concept of this app and have high hopes the devs will continue to make it better, but at least with my current setup I will not use this with friends over due to how glitchy it is.
Perfect for a house full of older iOS devices
I had purchased the full program several years ago but never got it fully implemented. I have rediscovered how awesome it really is. I have kitchen iPad/Alexa, bedroom iPod, main living room, patio, garage all being served by Airfoil. Pretty excited for this.
FYI, the Alexa is connected via Bluetooth to my Mac Mini, which is serving as the master receiver/server, works great!
My only complaint would be about the amount of delay between pressing play/stop/next on the source device and hearing it throughout the Airfoil network. It may be due to the very old Mac Mini(2008) serving everything. The delay may cause someone to hit the button again thinking they didn’t press it correctly.
FYI, the Alexa is connected via Bluetooth to my Mac Mini, which is serving as the master receiver/server, works great!
My only complaint would be about the amount of delay between pressing play/stop/next on the source device and hearing it throughout the Airfoil network. It may be due to the very old Mac Mini(2008) serving everything. The delay may cause someone to hit the button again thinking they didn’t press it correctly.
Pausing fixed! - Apple Watch app please...
Airfoil Satellite Windows Download
When opening the application music stops playing, also takes awhile to connect to airfoil on my desktop. Most of the time it doesn't connect at all, and you have to close the app then reopen it. Please fix, the old remote application never stopped the music when connecting to airfoil...
Update: pausing problem now fixed. The app works perfectly now, you guys did a great job. Everything is starting to come together with 5.0, I'm starting to see the vision... lol
Now if you guys can add an Apple Watch version I would be really happy!
Update: pausing problem now fixed. The app works perfectly now, you guys did a great job. Everything is starting to come together with 5.0, I'm starting to see the vision... lol
Now if you guys can add an Apple Watch version I would be really happy!
Airfoil Satellite Windows 9
Information
Airfoil Satellite Windows 8
Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Airfoil Audio
Supports
Airfoil Airplay
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.