Steaming music over WiFi to speakers

[Karpfish]

Hi,
I have a set of speakers in my room that is on my desk, however I tend to use my MBP on my bed. I know that the airport express has the air tunes wireless streaming ability, but it looks like you need to have an ethernet cable connected in order for this to work even if you have an existing wireless network. I have an airport express, but I do not have an ethernet jack in my room. Is there any way to get the streaming capability without the ethernet cable? If not, is there another solution that would allow me to stream music over WiFi that I could plug my speakers into?

 

[Hot Snowboarder]

No ethernet cable is required.

Plug in the express, attach the speakers and away you go.

 

[Karpfish]

As far as I now that is not true. Unless I am doing something wrong, before you can have the Airtunes options in iTunes, you must add the airport express in the airport utility, but I believ in order to do this you must have an ethernet cable connected to the airport. If this is wrong please let me know.

 

[ID_Field_Blank]

I think you've got your wires crossed somewhere with what the express does.

You don't need an ethernet cable to use airtunes at all. Plug your speakers into the airport express and then open airport utility. It is fairly self explanatory for how to set airtunes up - I think its the manual configuration button. Here's the apple guide....
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/AirPort_Express_Setup_Guide.pdf

I have mine running airtunes and don't have an ethernet cable plugged in at all. Mine is set up as a booster for the network I'm on.

Sorry should have said. You don't need ethernet to set it up either.

 

[gazpilot]

You need a cable

to initially set up the airport express, ssid, password, etc. Once this is done you can stream wirelessly.

Grant

 

[BoulderBum]

I have an Aiport Express that I use solely to stream music over WiFi, and I can vouch that no Ethernet connection is required. You simply set it up to "join an existing wireless network", and then you can choose it as the set of "Speakers" for either your computer's iTunes library or your Apple TV.

On a side note, you can also control your music with an iPod Touch or iPhone via Apple's "Remote" app, which makes for one slick wireless remote! You get cover art on the device, you can queue up your playlists, search for songs via the virtual keyboard, etc.