Whimsical Friday: My Favorite App

[Whimsical Friday is a light-hearted note on any technology that impacts our lives in some form or fashion.]

I’ve always been considered a music junkie (a termed coined by a fellow blogger, Chris Harris), and a self-proclaimed audiophile (albeit, an audiophile on a beer budget).  So I guess it comes as no surprise my favorite app is related to my passion of music and audio equipment, Apple’s Remote app.  Apple describes their app as “a free, fun, and easy-to-use app that turns your iPhone, iPad,or iPod touch into a remote control.  So wherever you are in your house, you can control your computer’s iTunes library....” 

What makes this app really cool is that I’m able to stream my iTunes library to my home audio system via Apple’s AirPort Express.   Of course the audiophile in me has my iTunes library digitize in a lossless format; a wired connection from my home server to the AirPort Express, none of that wireless stuff because I don’t want one bit dropping from the signal on its way to the AVR; and of course, the output from the AirPort Express to my Rotel Processor is via an optical digital cable. 

What does all of this means, at the touch of a screen I have access to my entire music library to play through my carefully crafted audio system from any location in my home and it sounds exactly as if I was playing the actual CD.  Audio nirvana!! Except for those days when I relax with my virgin vinyl pressing of Stevie Wonder’s Innervision LP on my B&O turntable with its ortofon cartridge and a Discwasher vinyl record cleaner.  What can I say, sometimes nostalgia trumps technological advances.