Rogue Amoeba’s app for iOS has been inexplicably removed from the App Store, Paul Kafasis, the company’s CEO, Thursday. Airfoil Speakers Touch, available on the App Store since 2009, allows users of Rogue Amoeba’s software for Mac and Windows to send audio from a computer to an iOS device, greatly expanding on the similar functionality of Apple’s AirPlay technology. Unfortunately, the app has been pulled from the App Store with little warning and, according to Mr. Kafasis, Apple has provided no explanation for its actions. Kafasis broke the news on Rogue Amoeba’s blog: Today, we’ve been informed that Apple has removed Airfoil Speakers Touch from the iOS App Store.
We first heard from Apple about this decision two days ago, and we’ve been discussing the pending removal with them since then. However, we still do not yet have a clear answer on why Apple has chosen to remove Airfoil Speakers Touch. Needless to say, we’re quite disappointed with their decision, and we’re working hard to once again make the application available for you, our users. As far as we can tell, Airfoil Speakers Touch is in full compliance with Apple’s posted rules and developer agreements. We’ve already filed an appeal with Apple’s App Review Board, and we’re awaiting further information. Unfortunately, Apple has full control of application distribution on iOS, leaving us with no other recourse here. The guidelines that Apple uses to accept, reject, or remove previously accepted applications has for many years.
In some instances, Apple has rejected applications that, leading some that Airfoil Speakers Touch’s removal from the store is an indication that similar functionality will be included in iOS 6. However, Rogue Amoeba believes that another factor is at play, and does not put much faith in the notion that iOS 6 will support converting iOS devices into AirPlay receivers. In to Cult of Mac, Mr.
Kafasis said: “We’ve seen that theory floated by a few folks as a wild guess, but there’s certainly no hard evidence that iOS 6 will contain audio receiving functionality. Anything’s possible, but I can’t say it seems likely that iOS 6 will turn iOS devices into AirPlay receivers. Even if that is the case, however, iOS 6 isn’t here yet nor even announced. The timing on pulling Airfoil Speakers Touch now, a month after it was approved but before iOS 6 has even been made public, seems to make little sense with regard to this possibility.
It’s certainly not something Apple has done before.” Macgasm.
Rogue Amoeba Newsletter Volume 9, Issue 1 December 31st, 2011 1. Preface & Introduction 2. Say Hello to Piezo - Charmingly Simple Audio Recording 3.
Receive From iOS and iTunes With the Latest Versions of Airfoil 4. Join Us At Macworld-iWorld 2012 5. 2011 in Review 6. Our Plans for 2012 7.
Preface You're receiving this email because you purchased a product from Rogue Amoeba in the past. If you don't want to be on this mailing list, please accept our sincere apologies. Just click the link at the bottom of this email to remove yourself.
Once removed, you won't receive any further newsletters from us. Introduction As always, I'm your host Paul Kafasis. As CEO/Lackey here at Rogue Amoeba, it's my privilege to be able to write to you.
It's been almost exactly a year since our last newsletter, but we've been hard at work on new products and updates for you. Read on to learn all about it. Say Hello to Piezo - Charmingly Simple Audio Recording Earlier this month, we were thrilled to introduce our brand-new product, Piezo.
Piezo is a simple audio recorder, designed to make recording audio on your Mac a snap. Whether you want to record Skype conversations, web streams from Safari, or even just audio from a microphone, Piezo can help you capture audio in just seconds. In addition to being easy to use, Piezo is also gorgeous, with an alluring retro-modern feel courtesy of our excellent designer Christa. Many of you already use our award-winning Audio Hijack Pro for audio capture, so you might be wondering how Piezo compares. Piezo isn't really aimed at our existing Audio Hijack Pro users.
It's a simplified audio recorder, which lacks a great deal of the functionality found in the more powerful Audio Hijack Pro. Our goal in creating Piezo was to provide an effortless audio recording tool to the millions of users of the Mac App Store, while also crafting a more streamlined tool useful for basic audio recording needs. If you're already well-versed in the more-powerful Audio Hijack Pro, Piezo is likely not for you. That said, you can check out a comparison between the two applications on our site: We have seen plenty of folks making use of both Audio Hijack Pro and Piezo, so if you're interested, check it out with the free trial for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7. When you're ready to buy, you can purchase a license for Piezo in the Mac App Store: or directly through our store: Best of all, Piezo is available for the incredibly low price of just $10! We hope you'll check out Piezo: 3. Receive From iOS and iTunes With the Latest Versions of Airfoil We released Airfoil 4 in December of 2010, and since then we've had thousands of upgrades and new purchases.
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Airfoil is more popular than ever, and we're very pleased. We aren't resting on our laurels though, as we continue to improve Airfoil regularly. The most recent major updates came in the form of Airfoil for Mac 4.5 and Airfoil for Windows 3.1. When you update to these new versions, you'll get a powerful update to Airfoil Speakers as well. As you may know, Airfoil Speakers turns your computer into an audio receiver for Airfoil, enabling you to transmit audio from one computer to another. Now, the newest versions of Airfoil Speakers can receive audio directly from iOS and iTunes, without even needing to use Airfoil.
That's right, Airfoil Speakers on both platforms can now receive audio from any iOS device! When you play audio in almost any audio app on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, you can select Airfoil Speakers from the AirPlay list provided by iOS. Once you do, you'll hear the audio right on your Mac or PC.
Airfoil Speakers can now also receive audio directly from iTunes. You've always been able to play iTunes to Airfoil Speakers, by setting iTunes as your source in Airfoil. Now you can play audio directly from iTunes on Mac OS X or Windows, right out to any Mac or PC running Airfoil Speakers. Airfoil 4 requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.
The latest version of Airfoil for Mac is 4.6.2, and it's a free update for all licensed Airfoil 4 owners. If you have Airfoil 3 or earlier, you can upgrade to Airfoil 4 for just $10 here: Airfoil for Windows 3.1 is a free update for all licensed Airfoil for Windows owners. Learn more, and get the latest Airfoil for your platform right here: 4.
Join Us At Macworld-iWorld 2012 Next month, the 2012 edition of the Macworld Expo will be taking place in San Francisco, and we'll be exhibiting once again. Thinking of attending? We'd love to see you there, and we've even got a limited number of free Exhibit Hall passes to get you in.
Details: Dates: January 26th - January 28th, 2012 Times: 12 PM - 6 PM (Thursday), 10 AM - 6 PM (Friday, Saturday) Location: Moscone Center, San Francisco Booth: #742 If you've been to Macworld's exhibit hall before, you've got a decent idea of what to expect. As always, there will be hundreds of Mac and iOS vendors coming together with tens of thousands of users to talk about the software and hardware we all use every day. This year there will be a whole lot more going on, from musical performances by big name bands like Modest Mouse, BT, and Moe, to great tech talks, and much more. As I mentioned, we've got a limited number of free Exhibit Hall passes, so you can register here to get in at no charge: Once the free passes are gone, they're gone, but it's still just $25 to get in.
When you're at the Moscone, be sure to swing by booth #742 to say hello. 2011 in Review As has often happened before, we ended the year 2010 with feverish effort to release Airfoil 4. Thus, we relaxed a bit going in to 2011. I did have a chance to attend Macworld in January, and it was as busy as ever.
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In February SiriusXM made several change that forced us to scramble in order to keep our SiriusXM player Pulsar working as expected. Unfortunately, SiriusXM doesn't provide any outside access to developers. Fortunately, we worked around that limitation, and Pulsar is currently working well. Many third party developers asked us how they could integrate with Airfoil, so in April we developed an integration API to allow them to do just that. We've now got a great lineup of audio apps from which Airfoil can received enhanced metadata and remote control, making for an even better experience when listening to audio. You can see a full list of supported applications here: If your favorite audio player isn't listed, get in touch with the developer, and link them to our blog post! Our next major update came in July, when we released Airfoil for Windows 3.
This update brought many of the new features found in Airfoil for Mac 4 to Windows, and it's been a big hit with our Windows users. If you have both Macs and Windows machines in your household, be sure to check out Airfoil for Windows. We also updated Airfoil for Mac to version 4.5, enabling Airfoil Speakers on the Mac to receive audio from iOS and iTunes (see section 3 above). Airfoil Speakers Touch, for iOS, got a great update as well. The fall was consumed by updates for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). While we'd have liked to have been there on day 1, that simply wasn't possible. It took us about a month before we had all of our software 100% compatible with the new OS, but we're now all set.
If you're on Lion, be sure you have the latest versions of all our applications so everything works flawlessly. We also made three new hires in the fall, bringing on board Grant Farr, Jose Vazquez and Ed Wynne. Grant's already had his first product release, while Jose is currently working on the next iteration of Fission. Ed has long been the mastermind behind our Instant On component while contracting for us. Now with us full-time, he's working on the underpinnings of several of our applications. And last but certainly not least, as seen in section 2 above, we released Piezo in December.
After many months of hard work, Grant's first application is now available. Read all about it above, or on our blog here: Piezo has met with rave reviews, and we couldn't be more proud.
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Check it out for your audio recording needs. Those were the major highlights of 2011 for us, but we're always hard at work on the future. Read on for more. Our Plans for 2012 Looking at our year-end newsletter for 2010, I reviewed our then-future plans for 2011.
As is true for so many things in life, almost nothing went according plan, and yet everything worked out pretty well. At the end of 2010, we mentioned big updates we had planned for several apps. In 2011, we shipped some of those updates, and merely made progress on others.
Perhaps most importantly, I'm very hopeful we'll be able to show you what we're doing with Audio Hijack Pro at some point in 2012. Beyond that, we've got some big updates for Piezo and Fission in the works, along with smaller updates for just about every product we make. As always, this is subject to change, but it's a clue as to what we're working on. You can get more frequent information updates with the links in the Closing below. Closing That's all for now. To keep up with Rogue Amoeba more regularly, you can follow our Twitter account: and check out our company weblog, Under The Microscope: You can even like us on Facebook: As always, thanks for your support and thanks for reading.
We hope you have a great 2012! Happy New Year, -Paul.
Posted By Paul Kafasis on July 21st, 2018 We’ve got big news for Airfoil today: Sonos compatibility! With the new, you can stream any audio from your Mac to all of Sonos’s AirPlay-compatible devices.
That means Airfoil can now help you play audio to even more devices. Whatever mix of AirPlay, Bluetooth, and Chromecast devices you have, Airfoil can help you stream audio in sync to all of them at once.
Currently, Sonos’s AirPlay-compatible hardware lineup consists of the Sonos One, Beam, Playbase, and second-generation Play:5. If you’ve already got one of these AirPlay-compatible Sonos device, make sure its firmware is up to date, then update to Airfoil for Mac 5.8 to start streaming any audio from your Mac all around your house. Of note for users with older Sonos hardware, you need just one AirPlay-compatible Sonos device to enjoy audio on your entire system. From: Even though AirPlay 2 is only supported on Sonos One, Beam, Playbase, and Play:5, with any one of these speakers you can listen via AirPlay on your entire home sound system. That means that even non-AirPlay compatible speakers like Playbar or Play:1 can reap the sonic benefits of our AirPlay 2 integration, provided they’re grouped with one of our newer, AirPlay-friendly devices in the Sonos app. That means that if you have an older Sonos system, you can just add a single new device to get AirPlay compatibility going throughout your home. The is a very worthy HomePod competitor, and its $199 price tag is just slightly more than half the cost of Apple’s smart speaker.
More Compatible Devices Coming Soon Sonos’s recent update made them the first third-party vendor to ship AirPlay 2 compatible speakers, but they won’t be the last. There are many more AirPlay 2 devices coming from. Much of this hardware is already available for purchase, and firmware updates to enable AirPlay on these devices are due at various points later this year.
More compatible outputs coming soon! Like the Sonos hardware, we expect these devices will be compatible with Airfoil, once their firmware is updated. Appbox for android.
We’re excited for Airfoil to power audio streaming to even more great hardware! Get Airfoil for Mac 5.8 Now For over a decade, Airfoil has helped stream audio from your Mac to outputs all around your house.
With today’s update, it supports more outputs than ever before. If you’re new to Airfoil, learn more on its. You can download the free trial, then purchase right through. Owners of Airfoil for Mac 5 can update to version 5.8 free of charge, by selecting “Check for Update” from the Airfoil menu. If you’re an owner of Airfoil 4 or lower, you’re still eligible to. Stay Tuned, Airfoil for Windows Users Fear not, Windows users.
We’re hard at work on an update which will add Sonos compatibility to as well. Stay tuned for more news in the near future! Update (September 13th, 2018): With, you can now stream to Sonos devices with as well! Be sure to update to the latest version.
If you’ve got an Apple AirPort Express, you can use iTunes to “broadcast” your music, wirelessly, to speakers connected to the Express; Apple calls this technology AirTunes. Unfortunately, AirTunes has several drawbacks, the most significant of which is that it can broadcast only audio playing in iTunes. If you want to listen to audio that isn’t supported by iTunes—for example, Real Audio, Windows Media files, or audio being played in a Web browser—you’re out of luck.
Well, sort of. Rogue Amoeba’s $40 (for Mac OS X) is a cool little utility that provides the ability to stream audio from an application over the Internet. As it turns out, since iTunes can listen to streaming audio, you can use Nicecast to stream audio from other applications into iTunes, which can then send that audio to an AirPort Express. Presto—AirTunes for any application. (Our sister publication, Macworld, even awarded Nicecast a for this capability.) But this is really just a clever kludge, and it’s a bit of a hassle to get working: First you have to set up the audio stream, then you have to configure iTunes to “receive” it, then you have to broadcast to your AirPort Express. This isn’t intended to be criticism of Nicecast—the application wasn’t originally designed to perform such iTunes trickery.
Nevertheless, the folks at Rogue Amoeba realized that they had discovered something quite useful, so they set out to make it easier to use. The result is the new $25 ($20 introductory price through the end of March) (for Mac OS X). Put simply, Airfoil lets you stream audio from any single application directly to a chosen AirPort Express. And it couldn’t be easier to use.
How it Works In Airfoil’s main window, you first choose the running application—from the Select pop-up menu—that’s providing the audio you wish to transmit. (The menu also lists recent applications used in Airfoil, as well as a Select Application item that lets you choose an application that isn’t currently running. If you option+click the menu, hidden applications are also shown.) You then select the AirPort Express unit to which you wish to transmit.
(If you’ve got only one, it will be selected by default.) Finally, you click the Transmit button—the application’s audio will begin playing through your AirPort Express (or should I say, through any speakers connected to that AirPort Express). You can control the volume level of the signal via Airfoil or, if you prefer, you can set Airfoil’s preferences so that it links its own volume level to your Mac’s volume control. Using Airfoil, you can easily broadcast audio from Windows Media Player, Real Player, MPlayer, QuickTime Player, or any other application that produces audio, including games and Web browsers. The latter makes Airfoil a great way to listen to Web broadcasts of sporting events on your home stereo. However, keep in mind that just like iTunes, there’s a slight delay between when a sound is produced by an application and when it’s played back by your AirPort Express, so don’t expect to watch a DVD on your computer while playing the audio back through your stereo.
(Actually, this is possible, though not without glitches: The free and have audio offset/de-sync features that let you manually sync the audio and video of a DVD; the Airfoil Help system provides details on setting this up.) Airfoil even offers advantages for those who are simply broadcasting iTunes audio. For example, whereas AirTunes mutes local audio when broadcasting, you can set Airfoil’s preferences to play audio on the local computer while it’s being played via your AirPort Express.
(Note that because of the way AirPort Express audio transmission works, local and remote audio may be slightly out of sync.) And whereas audio effect plugins (such as the popular ) don’t work with AirTunes, they do work via Airfoil. You simply need to set iTunes to play locally on your computer—not via AirTunes to your AirPort Express—and let Airfoil send the audio. One quirk with Airfoil has to do with how it interacts with running applications. (I reluctantly call it a “quirk,” as it’s really a conscious decision by the developers, intended to address the concerns of users.) If you elect to install Airfoil’s “Instant Hijack” component—you’re given the option the first time you launch the application, or you can install it at any time by choosing Airfoil - Install Extras—then clicking the Transmit button commences the transmission immediately. However, Instant Hijack uses Application Enhancer technology. Some people refuse to use software that requires Application Enhancer, citing stability issues, so Rogue Amoeba has wisely devised a way for Airfoil to work without it. The drawback is that in order for this workaround to function, you need to either select the desired audio application in Airfoil before it’s launched, or allow Airfoil to relaunch it if it’s already running when you begin transmission.
It’s up to the user to decide which method—Application Enhancer or inconvenience—to choose. Airfoil also offers a few hidden settings for advanced users, accessible by option+clicking the Transmit button.
You can adjust the stream index; decide what happens when no audio is detected (stop the stream, add silence, or add noise); and customize audio device and channel settings. You can also choose the measurement displayed by Airfoil’s audio meter by clicking on the meter and choosing the desired option (Off, In RMS, In Peak, Out RMS, or Out Peak) from the resulting pop-up menu. Unfortunately, Airfoil can’t currently overcome another significant drawback of AirTunes—like AirTunes, it can broadcast to only a single AirPort Express at a time.
(Rogue Amoeba says that they’re trying to incorporate the ability to send audio to multiple Express units simultaneously for a future version.) And it doesn’t provide the ability to transmit all your computer’s audio—a feature that would be useful for presentations. Finally, you need to disable the “Speaker password” option on any AirPort Express you wish to use with Airfoil. The Lowdown Despite these issues, Airfoil brings AirTunes a few significant steps closer to its full potential-it unleashes AirTunes from iTunes and allows you to stream music from your Mac to your AirPort Express from the applications you choose.
For this service (and the ease with which it delivers it), Airfoil is a Playlist Pick. (Airfoil is currently available only for Mac OS X; however, Rogue Amoeba has hinted that they’re considering porting the utility to Windows.).
Rogue Amoeba today announced, introducing an updated version of its popular software that allows users to transmit any audio from their Macs or PCs to their home audio systems. Airfoil 5 includes a revamped interface with new Retina-compatible graphics and design improvements that include longer volume sliders in the main Airfoil window. More importantly, Airfoil 5 introduces several new features, including Bluetooth support, a new Airfoil Satellite companion app, and Speaker Groups.
With Bluetooth support, Airfoil is able to send audio to Bluetooth devices, including speakers and headphones, expanding Airfoil beyond the Apple TV, AirPort Express, iOS devices, and Macs. That means users can send music to the thousands of different Bluetooth speakers, headphones, and headsets available! A music app like Spotify can be sent to a high-quality Bluetooth speaker (or multiple Bluetooth speakers!), while the rest of the computer's sounds come through the Mac's speakers.Airfoil Satellite is a companion app that lets audio be sent to Macs, PCs, and iOS devices.
Running Airfoil Satellite on one of these devices will turn them into audio receivers, and the software also allows for the remote control of supported apps like Spotify. It's possible to adjust volume, skip tracks, pause music, and more. With Speaker Groups, it's possible to group up multiple speakers to send audio to more than one speaker at the same time.
All the speakers in a home can be grouped together for house-wide music playback or organized into rooms for playing music in a specific area. Other new features include silence monitoring, which will automatically disconnect Airfoil if there's no music being played, custom equalizer presets, sync adjustments, options to hide speakers, and an improved Instant On feature that will capture audio from already-running apps. Airfoil for Mac or PC can be for $29. There's also a free trial for first time users who want to check out the software before purchasing. I'm having trouble understanding the utility of this app. Don't iMacs and all MacBooks come with Bluetooth? They can already send audio to Bluetooth devices and AirPlay devices.
Maybe I'm missing something. You are right. But they can only send audio to one device at a time (unless you use iTunes to send to more then 1 airplay device?). I can use Airfoil to send music from Spotify playing on my Macbook Pro to my Apple TV connected to my home stereo, a speaker outside connected to an Airport Express and to two other speakers connected to two iPads in two different rooms (you can use an iPhone or iPad as a receiver with their companion app). The music is all perfectly synced on each device and speaker. It is really great software.