How to setup Ubuntu to works with AirPort Express

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Hi, guys. I’ve found the great solution to stream all your local sounds to AirPort Express, which connected to your multimedia sound system. Frankly speaking it was almost in the default installation of Ubuntu Linux. All you need is to install the latest Pulse Audio and Pulse Audio Volume Control

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavucontrol paprefs padevchooser pulseaudio-module-raop

Go to the top menu System -> Preferences -> PulseAudio Preferences

Choose in the top menu

Applications -> Sound & Video -> PulseAudio Volume Control

In the Playback tab choose an application you want to stream and select Stream on dropdown menu your AirPort Express

This is the one way you can do it. But i prefer the following solution. Click with right mouse button on the Sound Volume icon in the application tab and select Sound Properties

In the Output tab select your AirPort Express device and that it. Everything should play well and you can manage volume right from Ubuntu Volume Control or using your hard keyboard button. That works very nice for me even better than in Windows or Mac OS X cause you can stream every application you want and control volume control using your system settings. One more thing i would like to mention is that there is no way to use your iPhone with Remote application

Have a fun

p.s. feel free to share solutions for another versions of Linux OS, like Debian etc.

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9 Comments to “How to setup Ubuntu to works with AirPort Express”

  1. Luiz Lopes | February 2nd, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    This is by far the easiest way to doing this. It worked great on my setup on Ubuntu 9.10. 64bit

  2. Man about town | March 13th, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    Man you just made my pc life 90% complete. So simple and its true even better then itunes! Now all I need is my iphone and no one windows!

    Thanks again

  3. Pete | April 9th, 2010 at 5:12 am

    Thanks, I’m going to try this with mpd with the pulse output enabled and use the free mPod app as the remote with the ipod touch instead of the itunes remote

  4. valeriancafe | April 9th, 2010 at 11:55 am

    I installed this and it was great and wonderful, until the music stopped playing buy it’s self. Using rhythmbox 0.12.7
    I have ubuntu 9.10 64bit HP m7470n amd athlon 64 x2 3 gb ram

  5. Pete | April 10th, 2010 at 3:02 am

    It didn’t work for me with the AEX in client mode until a post on the ubuntu forum suggested
    ~$ pactl load-module module-raop-discover
    Then it did.

  6. Rick | May 12th, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    excellent! and it transmits *any* sound source -
    Rhythmbox, web stuff (eg hulu & youtube), games…

    thanx!!

  7. Ivica | June 16th, 2010 at 12:04 pm

    After installing pulseaudio in order to be able to stream music via Airport express, it worked very nicely for about 10 min. but than all the videos and music I play are accelerated (even when watching videos on line), like 3 times the normal speed plus it won’t stream music anymore. How annoying. Has anybody had a problem of this kind? Thank you.

  8. Daniel | June 17th, 2010 at 8:13 am

    Hi

    I can’t check the box “Make discoverable Apple Airtunes sound devices available locally”.

    Does anybody know why?

    Daniel

  9. Tony | September 4th, 2010 at 8:53 am

    Samas Daniel I think. The box for clicking to enable iTunes is greyed out. Any help gratefully received!
    Tony

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