Apple Tv Play Music Itunes Computer

I use this system in my Den , I play my music from iTunes while I am on the computer and this system was the best choice and I reviewed them all.

I casually listen to my iTunes collection, Apple Music, and SoundCloud. Play:5 sounds wonderful: full, deep, rich sound, surprising bass, no distortion; Is reliable: music never skips or stalls. I replaced a pair of M-Audio computer speakers. Play:5 sounds better than any computer speakers and bookshelf speakers I have owned. Play:5 in white looks beautiful, especially with white shelving. I bought Play:5 in December 2015 when a 45-day return period was offered. I have no regrets. The only disappointment is in the controller software. Sonos Controller for Mac is like a music player from the early 2000s; Difficult to navigate; Awful for discovery. I wish I could play my iTunes collection from iTunes to Play:5 (without AirPlay). I lose over a decade of metadata gathered from my music habits. But, Play:5 sounds great.

Music from iTunes and tv through Sky HD.

If you need to rip a lot of music for iTunes/Apple Music, you need a local host to store your files, either a PC or Mac. You can't use an iPad or iPhone to do so. I chose the Mac Mini for my wife's music library because it was reasonably priced compared to replacing her comparably configured MacBook Air and she only travels with her iPad.

I got 4 of these to replace 3 Sonos speakers and one sound bar on my TV.  (1 in the kitchen, 1 in the dining room and 2 combined as a stereo pair under the television). Comparing the sound to the Sonos play:1 speakers, they are quite a bit better.  I can hear much more bass and the sound is more omnidirectional.  The integration to my Apple ecosystem is much nicer that the Sonos app as well.  I have apple music; the combo with the homepods is just super.  I basically use Siri to play or find whatever I want to listen to.  It took me some fiddling around over a couple days to completely figure out how to use airplay to play music from each particular homepod.  Now that I learned how to do it, it works very well.  Playing the TV sound through the paired speakers works out well too.  Sometimes the AppleTV sound output changes from homepod to HDMI all on its own for some reason.  When that happens I have to switch it back manually.  Probably some fine tuning by Apple needs to be done in this area.  I will probably buy more to make stereo pairs in every room as they sound even better this way.  By the way I also replaced an Amazon Echo with these in the process.  The microphones on these pick up our voice better than the echo.

Great sound and easy to set up. I had read many reviews and was concerned about being able to play my local music through it. Some say you can't, unless you go through the Apple TV, etc. I did set it up for the Apple TV and my phone and found that it appears as a streaming device, which I can play my local music directly to it, or anything on my computer for that matter.

Fantastic product, with iTunes and Spotify it has changed my whole approach to music. Along with four Play Ones, its quality of sound, reliability and flexibility has been great for round the house and garden listening as well as parties. Can't fault it !

I love being able to just pick up my phone and play any music from my iTunes library, it's so easy to use. Sound quality is superb. Nothing about this product has disappointed me, I'd love to get another one if I could afford it!

I use SONOS to stream internet radio and play iTunes music. It sounds fantastic, is so easy to use that even the kids love it, and it's so versatile that I am yet to find its limits.

Ever since Apple Inc. has decided to replace iTunes with that primitive Apple Music app disaster I started using Windows devices to run iTunes. The irony. . . This drive works perfectly for hosting my iTunes library, custom equalizer settings for every song, and playlists for every occasion. In the Apple Music app you can no longer set custom EQ for every song the way you still can do it in iTunes under Windows. When you run a four-thousand-Watt sound rig capable of 137dB, being able to readily equalize each and every track is of critical importance. Some songs can sound dangerously harsh and aggressive without proper EQ. You don't want your audience to suddenly bleed out of their ears! No latency and no issues of any kind with this drive. It works flawlessly with 64-bit Windows 11. I have it formatted to the NTFS file system as opposed to FAT. Custom equalizer settings for each song are flawlessly loaded every time, sound quality is as good as ever, and the physically small drive is almost too small to notice. I am 100% happy with it.