Yet another set of new features is also in Preferences in the Automation tab. Any device paired with your Mac can be selected in any combination.Īnother useful new feature is Audio Groups, set in Preferences, which lets you name a set of speakers making it just a single click to swap among preset collections. More new featuresĪ new system menu provides access to almost all Airfoil 5’s features without switching to the main app.īluetooth support is new and extremely welcome, given all the Bluetooth-connected speaker and headphone options now available. That menu also lets you hide speakers that you never want to use with Airfoil, reducing clutter in your output display. If you have trouble with a given output’s sync, a new Advanced Speaker Options dialog (in the Speakers menu) lets you tweak the delay. Rogue Amoeba tells me that they don’t test for this feature or support it, so don’t rely on it. Airfoil routes stereo sound by design, although encoded audio (like Dolby Digital) may make it through intact from a source to a destination capable of decoding and playing it as intended. In testing, it worked like a charm, creating rich, broad sound. It’s worth it to avoid the weird echo effect that otherwise can occur. This generally works, even as it introduces a slight delay whenever you press play, pause, or switch audio inputs. The secret sauce in Airfoil is how it keeps everything in sync: It tries to determine and match latency-the delay between data being sent and played as sound-to the most-lagging device. The new Groups option lets you create collections of speaker combinations you use routinely.
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