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Pure Music Question

I have a question about how to use Pure Music with a wireless system. I currently have three systems, one using an Airport Express and two using Apple TV's connected to external DAC's. Music resides in a 1 TB hard drive connected via an Apple Airport wireless. Everything is controlled by iTunes running on an iMac using an iPod Touch with the Remote app.

I have downloaded the Pure Music demo and run into a hitch. It launches seamlessly but fails to play through any of the "speakers" I have selected in iTunes. When playing straight through iTunes without PM, no problem. It does play through my iMac speakers and I think sounds like a big improvement, but who listens through internal desktop speakers?

I have been able to highjack the PM stream and direct it to my systems using Airfoil, but short of using a desktop controller on my iPod Touch, nothing else works. PM seems like a great and reasonably priced upgrade, but to make it practical, I need to be able to use my Touch to control iTunes remotely while PM is running. I have spoken with PM's tech support, but no luck.

Any ideas?
bbopman
herman
2,252 posts
 
PM uses the output device selected in the Audio Midi Setup program found in your Applications-Utilities folder. If nothing else is attached it will use the built in output which would be the optical or analog jack on the computer. If you have any USB or Firewire audio devices it will allow you to select those as the output device.

If you select hog mode in the PM preferences - advanced audio setup then you set the Audio Midi to built in output and select your device from within those advanced settings.

PM doesn't use any part of iTunes to actually play the file so it seams impossible it could allow iTunes to control where the stream goes. Airport Extremes are limited to 16/44.1K anyway so you could not use any of the upsampling features of PM or play higher resolution files.

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bbopman OP
53 posts
 
Thanks Herman. Sounds like I am SOL. It would appear that my only Apple compatible option would be to switch out the Apple TV's with Apple Mini's.

Thanks for your response.
rabco
49 posts
 
Bbopman, Pure Music just released yet again a software update to correct a glitch in their previous version that resulted in no sound output.
Download the newest version and read the manual, if you care to investigate. It might be the problem.
bbopman OP
53 posts
 
Thanks for the replies. I will try downloading the new update. I was able to get PM to play remotely by highjacking the signal and directing it to my Airport Express/Apple TV's using Airfoil software. The demo sounds very good, so I will probably pull the trigger to buy the software. Hard to go wrong at $129.

Thanks again
agear
1,362 posts
 
Bbopman, PM does not work with WiFi yet. They are apparently working on it (I spoke to them). Apple has some encryption involved that blocks "third party" software access to the WiFi stream. Airfoil does allow you to hack into the WiFi stream and thus use PM, but I found that it compressed things sonically. Amarra does work without Airfoil due to the pecularities of its software design (uses some aspects of Itunes whereas PM apparently does not).
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