Airfoil signal flow??

[lalalandguy]

Hell all,

While using Airflow I noticed I am unable to mute my MAC'S internal speakers so that audio only comes out of my externals via airport express. This has become frustrating since there is a latency issue when playing back through my externals.

Can someone help me with muting the internals while streaming audio through the externals?

Also, I tried to 'mute' the comps internals by plugging a headphone jack into the comp. Interestingly enough, when plugged into the headphone jack the earbuds acted as a microphone and so did the internal speakers and audio was returned via the external speakers.

Can someone explain the theory behind that?

thanks in advance to those who respond!

 

[iHenning]

I'm looking into something similar.

My mute button works fine on the internal speakers while using airfoil, but I would like it to Mute airfoil instead. Is that possible?

And my headphones doesn't do anything else than being headphones while using airfoil. I can listen to safari as intended while spotify stream to airfoil. But I would like to mute airfoil when someone call me, without switching to airfoil and select mute.