Airplay Audio to the First Gen Apple TV
This post has been a long time coming and I am very exciting to be writing it. In my comparison between the first and second generation Apple TV I discussed some of the reasons I kept my old Apple TV and returned the new iOS based Apple TV. At the time I made that video AirPlay, Apples iOS to Apple TV audio and video streaming service, was not fully baked. Audio streaming worked well but video support was very limited. Currently video from third party apps is supported and supposedly works very well.
The main draw to AirPlay for me was audio streaming from an iOS device to either of my two Apple TVs. I use them as my whole house audio solution and when streaming music directly from iTunes or any other app via Rouge Amoeba's AirFoil. My issues with either of those solutions was that they still tethered me to my Mac. In the video above I demonstrate how to AirPlay audio from any iOS device through a Mac to a first gen Apple TV using an awesome beta application called Banana Tunes.
