Hi, Can we expect Audacity to be compatible with Sonobus or AirPlay in the future?
What is your problem with AirPlay?
You can play your music (or whatever) in Audacity and hear it on your AirPlay-capable device. Just select that device for sound output in your System settings:
“Wohnzimmer” is an old Airport Express connected to my stereo equipment.
No idea what “Sonobus” is, however.
Hello romontschun
Thank you for your interesting reply.
To do as you have apparently succeeded, I have installed my Airport Express which I have not used for 10 years.
The network then comes up in Audacity but it does not help me. I have set up my computer, my iPhone and Audacity with that network but it does not help.
Could you please help me and tell me what your settings look like in the whole chain to get AirPlay to work. The settings in Audacity and also what output from the computer you set.
My ambition is to use my iPhone as a co-listener so that I edit the audio to suit my listeners who all listen to music on iPhones with Air Pod.
I have also bought Belkin Soundform Connect which would help me with AirPlay, but that doesn’t work for me either.
My Airport Express (AE) is connected with wires to my router (a Fritz!Box, but the router type doesn’t really make any difference). It should also be possible to configure the AE so that it gets the signal via WiFi.
The AE is set up for acting as an access point, not a router and not a repeater. At the end of this text I’ll post screenshots of the AE’s settings.
Apparently, the old AE (one of the 2nd generation, not the one that plugs directly into the wall socket) can be configured using the Airport Utility from macOS Sequoia - my other Airport (Airport Extreme, the round one) cannot… I need to use the Airport Utility 5.6.1 together with a launcher app, which is not so straight forward. The Windows version of Airport Utility 5.6.1 should also work on W10, I was told.
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romontschun, thank you for your engagement.
I feel like the question is a bit above my skill level.
Neither Belkin nor Apple Support have been able to help me. “You can’t stream music to the iPhone” is the answer I get.
I know that the music stream arrives at the output of Soundform Connect, but the iPhone cannot receive it.
I’ll have to make do with that, but I’ll keep testing.
(It would be interesting to know how difficult it would actually be for Audacity to get “Sonobus” to work.
It works with other music editing programs, I understand.
Maybe it’s a “political” question?)
Romontschun,
You do not write anywhere that you stream to iPhone. Do you do that?
No, I did not - and you did not mention an iPhone at all in your question. I wrote that I am streaming via the Airport Express to my stereo equipment. Connected sound-out of the Airport Express to line-in of the amplifier.
What is “Soundform Connect”? And again (I asked in my first response already), what is “Sonobus”? Software? Hardware?
I think, the makers of Audacity are not responsible for how products from other manufacturers work. AirPlay is something built into your Mac and into certain appliances like the Airport Express and also into some receivers which made the use of an AirPort Express unnecessary for streaming (I know that TEAC has/had some). It has nothing to do with other software.
You can load your music onto your iPhone and play it from there (but why would you wnt to do this?). The iPhone’s built-in loudspeaker is nothing for my ears, and if you use headphones you can connect them to your computer (with cable or via Bluetooth).
OK! As you ask, you get answers.
Thanks for all the help I received.
My problem is now completely solved. I have downloaded Airfoil to computer and Airfoil Satellite to iPhone and can now stream audio to all my devices that are on my network.
Costs a sum but is worth it to me.
With Belkin Soundform Connect you can stream over AirPlay to analogue devices. So it is a hardware.
Sonobus is a VST plugin that creates a stream between computer and iPhone. You can also share the stream with a lot of people (not sure how many).
An orchestra of four people can thus be in four different places and make a synchronised recording. Haven’t tried it myself but that’s how it should work.
Unfortunately Sonobus is not compatible with Audacity but it is with other audio programmes.
But what does it matter now I have Airfoil and am very happy and satisfied.
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