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Pure Music Question

I have a question about how to use Pure Music with a wireless system. I currently have three systems, one using an Airport Express and two using Apple TV's connected to external DAC's. Music resides in a 1 TB hard drive connected via an Apple Airport wireless. Everything is controlled by iTunes running on an iMac using an iPod Touch with the Remote app.

I have downloaded the Pure Music demo and run into a hitch. It launches seamlessly but fails to play through any of the "speakers" I have selected in iTunes. When playing straight through iTunes without PM, no problem. It does play through my iMac speakers and I think sounds like a big improvement, but who listens through internal desktop speakers?

I have been able to highjack the PM stream and direct it to my systems using Airfoil, but short of using a desktop controller on my iPod Touch, nothing else works. PM seems like a great and reasonably priced upgrade, but to make it practical, I need to be able to use my Touch to control iTunes remotely while PM is running. I have spoken with PM's tech support, but no luck.

Any ideas?
bbopman
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morningstaraudio
154 posts
 
Did you try hitting the reset button? I know you probably have but thought I would suggest just in case you haven't
herman
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Since Pure Music is playing the file instead of iTunes I seriously doubt it will ever play through the speakers you have selected in iTunes. What do you mean by "nothing else works." Are you saying PM somehow blocks you from controlling iTunes?

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bbopman OP
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Thanks for the replies. I have tried the reset to no avail. Herman: By "nothing else works" I just meant that nothing I have tried other than highjacking the stream from PM using Airfoil has directed a signal to any of my remote receivers (Airport Express, Apple TV's). I think your point is well taken regarding the iTunes speaker selection. On a wired system, when using PM, where does the signal "originate", i.e. it has to get to the digital or analogue outputs somehow.

Since PM still allows you to control your library though iTunes, I would think there has to be a way to use iTunes to direct the PM stream somehow. As you can gather, I am pretty green on IT matters.

Your help is appreciated.
herman
2,216 posts
 
PM uses the output device selected in the Audio Midi Setup program found in your Applications-Utilities folder. If nothing else is attached it will use the built in output which would be the optical or analog jack on the computer. If you have any USB or Firewire audio devices it will allow you to select those as the output device.

If you select hog mode in the PM preferences - advanced audio setup then you set the Audio Midi to built in output and select your device from within those advanced settings.

PM doesn't use any part of iTunes to actually play the file so it seams impossible it could allow iTunes to control where the stream goes. Airport Extremes are limited to 16/44.1K anyway so you could not use any of the upsampling features of PM or play higher resolution files.

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bbopman OP
53 posts
 
Thanks Herman. Sounds like I am SOL. It would appear that my only Apple compatible option would be to switch out the Apple TV's with Apple Mini's.

Thanks for your response.
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