Audio Out Of A Browser Via Airport

[BibiMac]

I play music from iTunes out of my laptop to my home audio system via the airport network I have setup in my home. In iTunes, there is a pulldown menu in the bottom right corner which enables you to select: computer or whatever airport base station it detects.

How do I get the audio to play out of Firefox (or any browser) to the airport network similarly? I can't find such a selection in the browser preferences or Mac system preferences anywhere.

Yes...you guessed right, I just discovered Pandora.

 

[QuarterSwede]

AirTunes is available only in iTunes. However, AirFoil ($25) will do the job for you. They do have a free trial.

 

[BibiMac]

Cool. Thanks.

Unfortunately, the laptop I use for music is on 10.3.9 and it looks like Airfoil is for 10.4.0 and higher.

Do you know of any similar apps for the older os?

 

[dolphin842]

I have a crazy idea for this and I've almost got it working.

Here's the strategy: turn your Mac's output into a ShoutCast internet radio stream, which can be played in iTunes and therefore through AirTunes. I've got everything working except that iTunes currently can't connect to the self-made stream for some reason.

This scheme involves installing Soundflower, which routes the system audio output to Audion, an old but functional app that pushes a ShoutCast stream to a localhost instance of a ShoutCast server you can run on the Mac, which then broadcasts the stream, which iTunes can pick up.

Now if only I can get iTunes to cooperate, I can confirm the setup as working and post more detailed instructions.

EDIT: I actually got it to work, but only with streaming an actual file, not streaming just audio output. So unless someone here knows how to work a ShoutCast server better than I do (hint: I just learned how tonight )... this scheme appears too haphazard to be reliable at the moment.