airtunes and blueberries

I'm sitting here eating blueberries and streaming music to my stereo via AirportExpress/AirTunes.

Both of these are wonderful

Blueberries are finally in season (the local crop is finally plentiful enough to be really cheap -- I bought about a half gallon yesterday and we will go berry picking later in the week). One of the really beautiful things in life.

I'm also very happy with the little AirPort Express. A few days ago it managed to get hung (first time ever and it is over a year old). I switched the power off and then on again and it came right back to life. It is reasonably impressive that the incident was the most serious technical problem I've had with the unit.

It allows amazing flexibility to how we listen to music. Sukie and I both have iBooks that can drive it and we each have our iTunes music lists (which can be shared from our laptops and the massive disk array on my PowerMac). Navigation and playlisting of all of the digital music we own. It also gets used as a tuner. I have about 30 streaming stations in iTunes and it has been months since I have used the AM/FM tuner in the stereo. The interface is reasonable and it just works. I'm very happy.

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Some of the best money I've spent has gone into blueberries and AirPort Express...

Comments

[sara]

my girlfriend's father converted to osx last year and has a huge cd collection. several thousand cds. he has them all on a disk array connected to his mac and has two airport express modules in their family room and the music room. he also has a small pipe organ and a harpsichord in that room and piles of sheet music. classy

it is great to visit with my ibook. i have password access to their network as i'm going to be family. i can play all of my stuff and their stuff.

he says the airport express is his favorite toy and explains it has made a greater impact on his music enjoyment than his ipods.