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Having successfully ripped my CD's to iTunes (lossless,even managed to get cover art for most) I now want to be able to access them around the house using a Touch & airport express (to a portable stereo via an optical cable). I have tried downloading remote to the iMac (stored in the iTunes folder)but I assume I now need to get it onto the touch - can anyone tell me how to get it working?
The airport unit has an amber flashing light on it, I think it needs to be green to work, again any top tips? (I have loaded the airport disc onto the mac).
Thanks
Nick
You need to set up the airport express using Airport Utility. Open and follow instructions to set up airtunes.
Then in iTunes you can select the Airport/speakers that you want to broadcast to.
As for Remote, that's an application you need to sync to your iPod Touch.
I have tried syncing the touch - as I have over 120gigs in iTunes it won't let me. Does this mean that remote won't work for me? The touch is an 8gig version.
Once I am in airport utility it tells me that it can't find any apple wireless devices - the airport express unit is plugged in next to the computer.
You need to set it to sync manually.
We've got 3 Airport Expresses and a Time Capsule, and when I was setting them up with the different room names, they didn't always appear in the Airport Utility.
However, if you connect the Airport Express to your iMac with a Cat5 cable then it should appear; then you can follow the simple setup steps, and then disconnect the cable permanently.
The Touch is only a remote - the music is actually streamed from your iMac, and so size doesn't matter.
The Airport Express is now connected using the cable from the modem. I am now being told 'Problem 1 of 2: internet connection. Your Apple wireless device does not have a valid IP address. Make sure it is connected to your broadband modem or local network, verify your settings & try again....click continue to proceed.'
If I click continue I am then asked if I 'want to continue without resolving the problem'.....but with no indication if it matters.GRRRRRRRR
andym: what is this setting to sync manually of which you speak?
How are you planning to use the Airport Express?
Do you have a current WiFi network that you are trying to hang off, or will it be standalone?
I'm probably being a bit thick/naive. We have a wireless router/modem which gets our 'broadband' (0.1Meg) This is attached via an ethernet cable to the iMac (I was getting occasional drop-outs using it wireless). I then need to get data from the iMac to an airport express (at the moment only 1, but potentially more in the future). Does this help?
Nick
anyone?
Tell the Airport to connect to the wireless router.