On my recent trip to Chicago, I discovered that my all-time favorite radio station, WXRT, now supports streaming for Mac. This is big news in the EFM household, as we have been mourning our Lin Brehmer in the Morning for going on five years now, and only the Macs are hooked up to the AirPort Express, which allows us to listen to radio over the house speakers. When I tried it out, though, I realized that ‘XRT still forces you to use their klugey proprietary media player, which doesn’t let you use iTunes, which is the only way you can stream audio to your home speakers (and even then, you can only stream plain audio, not audio in video).

Bollocks.

But then Husband came to the rescue with another nifty little hack: Airfoil. For $25, you can stream anything over your AirPort Express. I thought it was a little pricey just to listen to Lin, but then Husband reminded me that the maximum volume of the internal speakers in my Mac is softer than baby’s breath, and therefore streaming audio through the first-floor speakers would be way cool when videoconferencing or watching “The Daily Show” downloaded from iTunes.
If you’re looking to solve this particular problem on your Mac, I highly recommend it. It was even easy to buy–just a few clicks, which I managed to do while feeding Minor, in between bites, without causing any wrath-inducing delays.