AirPhones effectively turns your iPhone into a line-in for your computer’s sound. Just load the app on your Mac (Windows versions are still in beta) and iPhone, make sure they’re on the same network, and you’re all done. Playback is actually surprisingly smooth, although I did hit some hiccups in my 30 minute testing session. The Airphones handled YouTube and iTunes clips quite handily, however, so this app would make a great cheapskate set of wireless headphones around the house.
The only confusing thing here is the pricing: there is one paid and one lite version on the App Store and it’s not made clear what the limitations of the lighter version are. I’m guessing it’s the fact that AirPhones Lite doesn’t override the auto-lock feature on your iPhone, so if you don’t take care to tap on the screen every few minutes, your connection will be severed. I’d treat this app like I do any set of stereo Bluetooth headphones and not expect perfect connectivity, but if you’re alright with that you can check AirPhones out for three or free dollars.
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so if i'm jailbroken, I can use the free version and something like insomnia and I'm good to go?
I guess it would be easier if just disable the auto-lock function on the iphone settings…
Possibly. I asked the dev on Twitter about what the differences were but I haven't gotten a response yet, so I decided to just share the brief piece. There could still be some other difference between the two versions, but I haven't found out about it yet.
You could probably just do as Entaum suggests, but I like having my auto-lock on all the time.
Wish I had something like that to plug into my TV.
Wow, this looks awesome! Can’t wait for windows version. Would work well late at night when someone is trying to sleep, or if you take your laptop to a hotel room and plug it in to watch some video, you can stream the audio, probably at better quality than the audio on most TVs.
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