VLC Airplay on Airport Express
There is a way to stream music to your airport express from VLC (means you don’t have to install iTunes).
Under preferences > all > stream output enter this in the “Default stream output chain”:
#transcode{acodec=alac,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:raop{host=<ip address of aiport express>,volume=175}
I tried to do it, but could not find where to enter the parameters you indicated in my VLC (windows) are you using linux?? which version of VLC are you using… thanks
MAC
Didn’t work for me. Running Win7x64.
that trick is exactly what I’m looking for ! the only thing, is that I was unable to make it work.
I’m replacing this expression :
with digits of the airport express IP address.
Is there an other setting to apply ?
Thanks
This just works! Thank you so much for posting this.
Don’t forget to restart VLC
It works fine with mp3 and m4a files but not with flac files… What a pity ! With a “normal” stream, flac works fine, maybe VLC realtime recodes FLAC to ALAC in its usual way of working which is bypassed by using a defined stream key… If someone succeeded in doing this trick with flac files, please tell !!!! Thanks.