Can the iPad stream music directly to my AirPort Express?
Not as of OS 3.2, no.
The iTunes interface on the iPad is provided by the iPod application. This is not iTunes and has a much more limited feature set.
Whether Apple plans to provide the ability for the iPad to stream music directly to the AirPort Express is unclear, but it seems unlikely, given that this feature has yet to appear on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
One aspect that might have prevented this with the iPhone or iPod Touch was battery consumption. The iPad's has a greatly increased battery capacity might leave the door open for some possibility of this feature coming in the future.
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But you can use the "Remote" app to make the iPad to control the music you have in iTunes on your Mac or PC and play that through your airport express. The music is still streaming from your computer...not your iPad, but you have full control over it from any room using Remote on your iPad.
Thanks for the advice above. Remote certainly helps with accessing libraries. However I cant then get the music across to my airport express which is plugged into out stereo system. Mainly because I'm using wifi for imac to pad access and then can't connect to airport express in the same chain as it were. Any suggestions?
This is my vote to get this feature into iPad at a minimum. Without it, the iPad really doesn't have much of a role at my house or office. Of course it's tough to argue with the 2M others who have bought one, but it's just such a big miss - seems like the genius's at Apple would get this figured out.
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