All sounds go to Airport Express when iPod AirPlay has been used

This could be quite a nice idea. However, it is very annoying that game sounds appear remotely if AirPlay hasn't been turned off. The delay makes gameplay completely silly. And Speak Auto-text is strange too.
Is this a bug or a feature? Or am I missing some way of controlling what audio is sent where?
Cheers

It seems more like they just overlooked one possibility than a true bug. They would have to make two different ways for developers to request to play sound. One for games and one for media play back. Sound has been working for me, however, it does play through airplay if it is on and with the inevitable delay. I'm glad that they did manage to sync video with airplay and Bluetooth for video playback though.
Hopefully you noticed that the airplay controls are available on the dock by swiping so the dock move to the right so you at least don't have to leave the game when you forget.

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