Hello, Personally, I would not invest in a pair of AirPlay speakers. As you noted, it's an apple only format where as bluetooth is an open standard. If you get airplay for free in your Apple TV or your Airport Express, great, but in my humble opinion, there are few reasons to use airplay, and I think you are realizing this for yourself too.
The use case I see for Airplay are: 1. You have incredible hearing and can hear the difference between the data rates of bluetooth and airplay. Airplay should be able to push more data if your music is stored in a higher quality format. I personally believe the speaker quality is a bigger factor, and most people have MP3 files anyway. 2. You need extended range. Bluetooth really gives you about 33ft of range before it starts to break up. Wifi will give you a longer range. 3. You have a large power requirement for the sound output, aka a receiver or amp, and airplay via an Apple TV will be good for that. I use airplay via myApple TV for the receiver, but bluetooth for portable speakers around the house. I think Bose is over priced and over rated, but their Mini SoundLink 3 at$200, is surprisingly competitive. Not sure I helped or gave you more questions. Good luck. --k Faith doesn't give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the questions. On Apr 13, 2014, at 11:07 AM, SSEric <sseri...@gmail.com> wrote: > First, a general question. Is Airplay no longer an option in the Music app? > I don't see it on my iPhone 5 or Touch running the latest IOS.. I am sure it > used to be there, but I don't play music all that often and never had cause > for Airplay, so I am not sure when it disappeared. Is there something you > must do to activate it in the Music player? > > Specifically, I bought a Philips Airplay enabled speaker. It requires that > you acquire your network. I then bring up Wifi on my phone or Touch and can > see the new option for Philips. This is fine, except that if I switch from > my home network to this new Philips one, which is attached to my home > network, I can then no longer stream via wifi. Is this just the way it is? > > By the way, with regard to my first question about Airplay not showing in > the music player, the way I was able to play music was to first select the > Philips from Airplay in the MLB At Bat app. I then switched to Music and > played music through the speaker. > > I am trying to decide whether or not to keep this speaker and if I want to > mess with Airplay at all. If my finding is true that you do have to join the > speaker's network connection, thus not able to stream via your home network, > then that doesn't seem so viable, since most of what I do listen to is > streamed. Also, as I said, I don't really do music listening all that often, > so it might not be worth it, and I will just stick with Bluetooth options. > > Incidentally, as I shopped Amazon for Airplay speakers, I saw that a whole > lot of them showed as discontinued by various manufacturers. It makes me > wonder about the future of the format. > > Thanks for any education on how Airplay does or does not work. > > Eric > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
