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Airfoil
I’ve always loved Apple’s airtun^H^H^H AirPlay functionality since I have an AppleTV and Airport Express. Since I purchased a Pandora One membership though I felt quite constrained to listen on just my MacMini of MB Air, neither of which had great speakers. Luckily, I remembered AirFoil. I had used this piece of software a few years ago (maybe even as far back as in college as a 1.0 product). AirFoil gives you the ability to “hijack” the audio stream from any app and redirect the audiostream to any AirPlay compatible device. Its also got the nifty ability to use a speaker application on your Linux, PC, Mac, Ipad, Iphone, to act as another set of speakers! Oh so cool. The app fits into the “it just works” category.
Oh yeah you can also do something like “hijack the system audio” open your terminal window and echo "Get up and make me coffee sylvia" | say -v "Zarvox" Which is always a fun one on Sunday morning! Anyway, go check AirFoil out, at $25 its a steal – its like Sonos without the $1000 investment in hardware!
