Airtunes Speaker Selection

Why is it that when you select a different set of speakers than your own computer, it mutes iTunes coming out of the earphone jack? What if I have another stereo connected to my computer and I want music in both places? Anyone know a workaround?

The reason it mutes the audio on the computer is that there's a significant delay as iTunes reads up the audio file, decodes it, re-encodes it as Apple Lossless, encrypts it, sends it to the AirPort Express, the AX decrypts it, decodes it, and sends it to the speakers. Almost a second on my G5 iMac. So there'd be an echo effect between the computer and the AirPort Express.
best,
charlie

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Hi Camelot,
I used the accessability inspector and got the following report on the airtunes speaker button:
<AXApplication: “iTunes”>
<AXWindow: “iTunes”>
<AXButton: “Apple Hifi (2)”>
Attributes:
AXRole: “AXButton”
AXRoleDescription: “button”
AXSubrole: “(null)”
AXDescription: “”
AXHelp: “Choose which speakers to use.”
AXEnabled: “true”
AXFocused: “false”
AXParent: “<AXWindow: “iTunes”>”
AXWindow: “<AXWindow: “iTunes”>”
AXTopLevelUIElement: “<AXWindow: “iTunes”>”
AXPosition: “x=1692 y=1104”
AXSize: “w=124 h=20”
AXTitle: “Apple Hifi (2)”
AXSortDirection: “(null)”
Actions:
AXPress - press
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speak selection don't work in all apps use text is example pictures with text apps the first 1 is the e-mail app you can see the speak selection bar. in there and the second app is the kik app you can only see the copy bar. only is a away to turn it on for all apps use text? and i know about voiceover but that is not I want i can see fine but i can't read good. can some body help me out?
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Also send you requests in using this link so Apple will see them and not just other users:
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Once i bought my fourth gen ipod touch, default voice in "voice over" and "Speak selection" was British Eglish.
Some day i had to restore my ipod,and i did, after that default language was US English with female voice!
I found out how to change language in "Voice Over",even found Russian(no necesserity in using it, but its one of my native languages). Still "Speak sellection" was US English.
When i turn Voice over on, it speaks selection with right language, but it's very hard to operate every time to just hear pronaunciaton of one word(that could be spoken with submenu of "copy,paste,cut,define,speak")
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State 2:
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When i connect to one Airport Express with Itunes, the sound drops every 3 seconds. But when i connect to multiple Airtunes speakers or one Airtunes speaker plus the pc speaker everything works fine.
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-i've used different settings buffer sizes.
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well, what'd you do to fix it? was it a bad headphones cable/jack or just not plugged in all the way?

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Using iPod/iPhone as an AirTunes speaker?

Does anyone know if it's possible to have an iPod/iPhone act as an AirTunes receiver(speaker), that is, while I'm watching something on my AppleTV, can I stream the audio to my device to listen through the headphones?
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newtontwo wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to have an iPod/iPhone act as an AirTunes receiver(speaker)
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Speak selection

Hi, im currently using an iPhone 5 16GB and I'm having problems with the selection tool. the main issues are in safari but also appear in other browsers and apps. The first problem is that the selection tool is very buggy, it tends to select all the text (both up and down) when I'm simply trying to select a small section and will sometimes scroll up or down very quickly without me having to hold the selection near the top or bottom edges of the screen. The speak selection speed also seems to be stuck on one speed no matter what i change it to in accessibility's and there has been times where nothing happens when i click on 'speak'. I tend to copy what i need and paste it in notes which which seems to handle selection and speak selection alright. This problem has been off and off but it seems to persist in safari.

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TS2634 how do i scroll down with speak selection?

i accedentily turned on speak selection on my ipod, and i need it off. i have been trying to scroll down but i just dont know how. i am trying to scroll down to the accesibility but i need help in figureing it out? help!!!

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To Click, double tap.
To turn off, go to settings>accessibility>voiceover>turn off
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As suggested by BDAqua, there is a micro switch inside the output that might be stuck and that is why there is no sound going to the internal speakers.
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