aiport and apple tv at same time

Posted this in the music forum but realized it fits better here:

Hi, I'm having a little trouble understanding how all these porducts can work together. I think I can do this but wnated to find out if I can.

Currently I have an iMac which is connected wirelessly to my router and my ipod touch can control itunes on it with the remote app.

I want to buy an airport express for my conservatory so that I can connect it to my stereo in there and stream my audio from my iMac to this stereo. No problems there I don't think.

I also want to buy apple tv to hook up with my tv and audio in my lounge. Again I know this could work.

Here's my question. Can both the airport express and the apple TV both be wirelessly synced to iTunes on my iMac so that i can play a song on my iMac and send it to multiple speakers so that essentially the same song is playing upstairs on my iMac, and downstairs in my lounge through apple TV as well as in my conservatory through my airport express. My idea then is I can control it all using my ipod touch remote and wherever I am in the house I have my music playing the same. Is this possible?

Joe

I believe so. Apple allows up to five devices to be authorized to use your iTunes account so I think it should work just fine.

Hmm, I think the better question is:

Can I stream a song to the airport express and stream a different song/video to the AppleTV at the same time.

JohnTheMacGeek said:

I believe so. Apple allows up to five devices to be authorized to use your iTunes account so I think it should work just fine.

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Yeah thats what I thought, i was just checking that apple tv can act as a client in the same way that the airport express can. Or does the apple tv play the music independently of itunes on my mac

You cant stream different songs to both at the same time. You can sync your library to the apple TV and you could play 2 different songs on both at the same time.

but can i press play on my imac and then the song plays on my apple tv and airport express at the same time?

Or would I have to press play on my apple tv to play the song that was being streamed to it?

I just read that apple tv does have a streaming mode but can the streaming mode work at the same time whilst the mac is streaming to the airport express?