AirPlay (AirTunes) to HomePod from OS X 10.4/iTunes 9

[fooyork]

Sorry if this has been posted before - I tried looking for answers, but couldn't find anything!

So...

In a continuing quest to bring my old Quicksilver into something resembling a useful life... I realised AirTunes (as it was back then) is recognising my HomePod and allowing me to stream to it... This must be the very first iteration of AirPlay. The Quicksilver has a PCI Wireless Network Card...

Now, it actually plays on the HomePod! But only for about 20 seconds, before it cuts out. It actually doesn't cut out abruptly, but seems to fade out (albeit rapidly).

Does anyone know if I can actually get this working in something resembling a stable fashion?!

I am running Mac OS X 10.4.11 (I wanted to keep the Classic Environment available), and iTunes 9. The Power Mac is an 800Mhz single core G4 (Quicksilver) with 1.5Gb of RAM.

Thanks!

Colin

 

[eyoungren]

You might try looking into old versions of AirServer or Reflector. In the case of AirServer you're looking for version 2 something I think. Version 3 was Leopard only, so I'm just guessing that 2.0 would support Tiger.

Reflector I don't really know about as I've never used it so they may never have issued a PowerPC compatible version.

That said. I have used AirServer on my old Quicksilver running Leopard. So, I know it works with Leopard at least. You won't get screen mirroring with a version that old, but you can pass audio.

 

[fooyork]

You might try looking into old versions of AirServer or Reflector. In the case of AirServer you're looking for version 2 something I think. Version 3 was Leopard only, so I'm just guessing that 2.0 would support Tiger.

Reflector I don't really know about as I've never used it so they may never have issued a PowerPC compatible version.

That said. I have used AirServer on my old Quicksilver running Leopard. So, I know it works with Leopard at least. You won't get screen mirroring with a version that old, but you can pass audio.

Thanks eyoungren!

AirServer I couldn't get to work - though could only find v3 on the net... And Reflector I can't find a PPC version of anywhere!

I also tried AirFoil as I had an ancient license code... but that just keeps coughing up an error message!

 

[eyoungren]

Thanks eyoungren!

AirServer I couldn't get to work - though could only find v3 on the net... And Reflector I can't find a PPC version of anywhere!

I also tried AirFoil as I had an ancient license code... but that just keeps coughing up an error message!

This thread might be worth looking through.

It may simply be that the version of Airplay being used by your G4 is too old, IDK.