Musical nirvana chez Young
I haven’t posted for more than a week and still don’t have much to say, so I thought I’d document the current music setup I’ve got going at our place. Because it’s great.
1. A solid iTunes library
2. Airport Extreme wi-fi with an Airport Express connected to the lounge stereo (circled in red)
3. iTunes lets me select which speakers I want to stream music to over wi-fi
Pretty cool. If I had a second Airport Express in a different room or outside I could stream music to there too (part of the plan).
But wait, there’s more.
4. Remote, a free application for my iPod Touch, lets me control the laptop from the iPod (as they’re on the same wi-fi network). I can choose any song or album from my entire iTunes library and also control the volume. Very cool.
But wait, there’s even more.
5. iTunes 8 includes a feature called Genius, which creates a playlist of around 25 songs from your library that are similar to any song you select. So if I’m feeling a bit Saturday Night I can choose Michael Jackson’s Rock With You, and Genius will pull up songs from Kool and the Gang, Madonna, George Michael, Daft Punk, S’Express, Cut Copy, Brand New Heavies, Marvin Gaye, etc.
So, to recap, when we want some music (and assuming everything’s turned on) I can pick up the iPod, choose a song, hit Genius, and we’re set for the next couple of hours. Very cool.
Yeah, I’m an Apple fanboi.