Dan Frakes and Jason Snell, Macworld.com Many of us here at Macworld are music lovers. We listen to a lot of music in a lot of places around the house. Which means many of us are also , which lets you easily get your music into multiple rooms using a combination of hardware, software, and remote controllers. Some of us are also , which similarly gives lets you pipe digital music all over your house. But every time we write about Sonos or Squeezebox, a number of readers (understandably) ask, "Can't you do the same thing with a bunch of AirPort Express units and speakers using AirTunes?" (AirTunes is technology that allows you to play audio from iTunes on a remote audio system connected to an AirPort Express.) After all, the Sonos and Squeezebox systems are relatively expensive, so some people wonder why you would opt for... [read full story]
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