You don't have to be a Mac fanatic to buy into the concept of Micromega's Aria AirDream or the company's WM-10 AirStream that preceded it. Nor are you locked into Apple's eco-system and forced to use iTunes to manage and play your digital music library. As ever with computer audio there are 'workarounds', such as Rogue Amoeba's $25 software utility dubbed Airfoil [see www.rogueamoeba. com]. This allows alternative media players - Windows Media Player, VLC, J River Media Center, Winamp and foobar2000 to name the most popular - to play out wirelessly to an AirPlay receiver. While you will still be limited to CD-quality playback, of course, due to AirPlay's wireless transmission protocol, this does at least circumvent iTunes' current inability to play certain file types such as RealAudio and those encoded using the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC).
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机译：您不必是Mac的狂热者，就可以购买Micromega的Aria AirDream或之前的该公司的WM-10 AirStream的概念。您也不会陷入苹果的生态系统，也不会被迫使用iTunes来管理和播放数字音乐库。与计算机音频一样，也存在“解决方法”，例如Rogue Amoeba售价25美元的软件实用程序，称为Airfoil [请参见www.rogueamoeba。 com]。这使其他媒体播放器（例如最受欢迎的Windows Media Player，VLC，J River Media Center，Winamp和foobar2000）可以无线播放到AirPlay接收器。当然，由于AirPlay的无线传输协议，您仍然只能享受CD品质的播放，但这至少可以避免iTunes当前无法播放某些文件类型，例如RealAudio以及使用无损音频编解码器（FLAC）编码的文件类型）。
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