Airphones is a new lightweight streaming app that lets you use your iPhone (or iPod Touch) as a set of wireless speakers for a Mac. Either hook up your own headphones, plug in some speakers, or use the built in speaker to stream sounds from the computer.
It’ll allow easy wire-free listening for your entire iTunes library from anywhere in the house.
Airphones comes in two parts – a small server app that runs on your Mac, and a client for the iPhone that listens for any broadcasts on its wifi connection. Once you have installed the Mac app, it will apear as an additional output device in Sound Preferences.
Any audio you send to that device will be automatically broadcast around the local wifi network, so you can either just use Airphones as a convenient ‘emergency’ speaker or use it as a way of listening to your complete iTunes collection anywhere in the house or garden – even the ones you can’t usually justify cramming into your allotted 8GB.
Airphones will also work as a cheap substitute for more expensive audio streaming devices like Squeezebox. Sadly, reception is limited to your local wifi network so you wont be able to take this on the road via 3G.
