Fill your home with holiday music
Whether or not you care for the sound of jingling bells and a rooftop echoing the click, click, click of reindeer hooves, there’s no escaping holiday music. Along with ornamented trees, candles, and nogged eggs, it’s parcel and part of December’s latter weeks. To join rather than beat the holiday spirit, you may wish to pipe such music throughout your home. Here are a few ways to do so—as well as where you might go to find some new holiday tunes.
Home for the holidays
If you live in a smallish apartment, whole-home audio is a cinch. Attach a couple of powered speakers to your computer, phone, music player, or tablet; press the Play button; and crank up the speakers until they rattle the mistletoe dangling in the farthest corner of your home.
If you’ve moved beyond such small quarters and find yourself needing to fill multiple rooms with music, your job is more involved—and more expensive—though not terribly complicated. As a user of Apple products, the obvious choice is to explore Apple’s AirPlay technology.
For those unfamiliar with AirPlay, here’s the gist: With music stored in your computer’s iTunes library or on an iOS device, you can wirelessly stream that music to AirPlay-compatible devices. In Apple’s world this means an Apple TV, and AirPort Express Base Station, or any set of AirPlay-capable speakers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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