Finding something pre-made online is easy, but it’s even more fun to make this ourselves. Making Background Musicįirst up, we need some creepy ambient music. As you might have guessed, I plan to use Rogue Amoeba apps to help. I’ll be placing a couple of small wireless speakers outside to play music and scary sound effects. Spooky audio is an important component of any scary display or haunted house, and with today’s portable speakers, it’s easy to add. I took it upon myself to start on the (often overlooked) sound design. Our concept: a scary cauldron which kids reach in to to retrieve their candy, complete with smoke and lights. Mid 2014 rMBPro running macOS 10.11.6 I installed v5.6.4 of Airfoil, and then installed the current Airfoil Satellite App on an old iPhone 5 running iOS 10.3 (latest available from Apple).Posted By Neale Van Fleet on October 24th, 2018īefore it was even October, my kindergartener son decided we ought to decorate for a truly spooky Halloween. Really don’t want to spend $100 for an AppleTV to pipe sound, but I’m without another good solution at this point. Previously used an Android app called Airtight that worked well emulating an AirPlay receiver until upgrades at Apple caused it to start stuttering. None of these symptoms occurred when routing the sound output through the MacBookPro, so it’s clearly an Airfoil issue. It was intolerable.įWIW when the Mac’s disk or network were really exercised it stuttered also. Unfortunately, with no warning it would periodically shift the pitch of the music being played- think slide whistle. When it worked, it was a reasonable solution.

In an effort to route Apple Music into my high end stereo equipment I tried using Airfoil on my Mac and installed the matching Airfoil Satellite app on an old iPhone, using the headphone jack output into my amplifier.

Airfoil audio lag