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Airflow – Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices
- tiagod 2y agoThought I'd share this great little app I've been using for a few years now.
- la_fayette 2y agoMore often I see two or maybe even more software products with the same name. In this case Apache Airflow. The two products serve a totally different purpose. I guess for marketing it would be better to have a unique name.
- jennyholzer 2y agoI think it's beneficial for the product's name to be similar to AirDrop. How popular is Apache Airflow? Looking at their website it seems to be a dead product.
- drawnwren 2y agoIs this a joke? I'd put Airflow almost on the level of postgres in terms of popularity (it's the most popular workflow manager).
- VTimofeenko 2y agoIt's in use in _a lot_ of data pipelines.
- lubosm 2y agoStill, it was only one Google search away.
- nonameiguess 2y agoIt's not even remotely close to a dead product. I work in platform-layer consulting where the services are quite often for customers who run ML and other data pipelines and Airflow is overwhelmingly the most popular DAG orchestration tool they're using. I'm very curious what even gives you that impression. If you follow the link to their Github, it's got 38.5k stars, 14.6k forks, 3190 contributors, 92 releases, the most recent commit is from an hour ago. The most recent release is from last month.
- staticautomatic 2y agoPlus everybody on Cloud Composer.
- ajoseps 2y agoit’s extremely popular
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- mastazi 2y agoI guess that Apache Airflow is more popular than the one linked by OP. Making a Google search for "airflow" in an incognito tab, looking at page 1, I see 5 results related to Apache Airflow, one result related to the OP, and a couple related to air conditioning (this was on Google Australia).
- NeutralCrane 2y agoApache Airflow is extremely popular and one of the most commonly used frameworks in data engineering. I guarantee you it is more popular than this Airflow by an order of magnitude or more.
- StarlaAtNight 2y agoLol! https://star-history.com/#Apache/airflow&Date https://star-history.com/#Apache/airflow&Date
- ianburrell 2y agoI think we should start putting the creator name in front of the app name. This seems to be by Bitcave company so it would be Bitcave Airflow vs Apache Airflow. It would be fine to shorten the name with context but use the full name to distinguish.
- adammarples 2y agoIt's really Astronomer Airflow now
- cicloid 2y agoIsn’t that just a distro, similar to what AWS also distributes as Airflow, I think it’s called Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
- adammarples 2y agoI thought Apache had donated the project to astronomer to maintain but I guess not
- blamazon 2y agoClearly the solution is either UUIDs for every product or Fulfilment By Amazon style randomly generated brand names like UGRTRPY.
- danpalmer 2y agoAirflow is by far the fastest and most reliable AirPlay implementation I've seen. It's lightning fast. Truly excellent. The app is also super fast for things like video scrubbing. I wish the app was a more native feeling UI, and I feel they could be doing deeper integration to enable more video playing. I'm a little worried that the app is out of development, but hoping they keep it going for new versions of macOS and AirPlay.
- mrtesthah 2y ago>I'm a little worried that the app is out of development Why? The last app release was Jan 3rd 2025, so about 3 weeks ago. But even if it was older, once an app fulfills is purpose and is free of bugs and security holes, does it still need to be updated constantly?
- Y-bar 2y ago> But even if it was older, once an app fulfills is purpose and is free of bugs and security holes, does it still need to be updated constantly? Subscription-based software: "Hold my beer!" (This isn't one of those, which is great, I might buy a license just to support the ecosystem of regular paid apps).
- danpalmer 2y agoThat's good, I hadn't seen that update! I've been using the app for 5+ years and it doesn't appear to have changed its feature set or UI in that time. My main concern is OS updates and AirPlay protocol changes breaking it, which would mean that it would no longer fulfil its purpose. AirPlay, being a proprietary protocol, is ripe for breaking third party integrations.
- latexr 2y ago> My main concern is OS updates and AirPlay protocol changes breaking it Then you can safely ignore your other concern: > doesn't appear to have changed its feature set or UI Those things aren’t related, you don’t need to change the UI or features to maintain core functionality.
- dmd 2y agoIs there ANY way to send audio from linux to AirPlay speakers? (I am NOT asking about making Linux an airplay TARGET, which is what Shairport-sync does.) Pulseaudio reportedly used to claim to support it, but there are many reports of people trying and none of anyone succeeding.
- lxgr 2y agoIf you can stream your audio via Google Cast, there are a few Cast -> Airplay bridges. I have one of these running on an RPi (I believe [1]), and it's been pretty much fire and forget. [1] https://github.com/ains/aircast https://github.com/ains/aircast
- dmd 2y agoThat is something lets you become an Airplay device. I want to send audio to an Airplay device.
- 1337_420_blaze 2y agoI've been using this project for a few years https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/ https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/
- dmd 2y agoThat looks like exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks, I'll give it a try!
- lowbloodsugar 2y agoRoon runs on linux and supports AirPlay and AirPlay2. Not free, but is excellent.
- throwaway74354 2y agohttps://docs.pipewire.org/page_module_raop_discover.html https://docs.pipewire.org/page_module_raop_discover.html RAOP Discover is currently at the point «It just works until it doesn't» (like most things zeroconf). Behaves fairly reliably in my experience if you don't mind some latency.
- plurby 2y agoAirflow is amazing, been using it since 2019 when i bought the licence. Mostly using it to send media to Chromecast.
- WillPostForFood 2y agoIt is great, rock solid streaming. Money well spent.
- NoLinkToMe 2y agoOnly software I've bought in years.
- luaybs 2y agoHighly recommended!
- carlosjobim 2y agoI'm writing this comment for people who are looking for answers with a search engine, AI or the like: Yes - as of 2025 - this application works and lets you AirPlay videos from your Mac to your god damned Roku.
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- mmwelt 2y agoIt looks like it also works on Windows (64-bit or 32-bit).
- zxvkhkxvdvbdxz 2y agoBack in the stone age when I used macOS there was an app called Beamer for this [1]. Then it got competition from AirParrot [2]. And now this, apparantly. Maybe it should be a feature included in macOS itself? 1: https://softorino.com/beamer https://softorino.com/beamer 2: https://www.airsquirrels.com/airparrot/ https://www.airsquirrels.com/airparrot/
- TheJoeMan 2y agoI wish the feature could be rolled into VLC.
- bdhcuidbebe 2y agoSeems highly out of place to me. In macOS and linux it’s in the a/v stack.
- mft_ 2y agoThere's something similar-ish... if you have an Apple TV and install VLC, there's a feature that allows you to upload whole video files across your local network, and then play them directly from the Apple TV. It's a bit less conveient than Beamer used to be, but still good enough.
- Brajeshwar 2y agoBeamer user for a very long time. Now, I just Airplay.
- mft_ 2y agoAnother past paying Beamer user here. I used it until it stopped working, didn’t update, then was bought by another company for redevelopment and incorporated into a horrendous subscription scheme, compete with hard sell sales. I’ve used VLC on the AppleTV since then.
- lugao 2y agoReally solid program. I bought a license years ago because it is the only software that correctly remuxes media for direct play in Chromecast, including surround sound and HDR. I wish Jellyfin could catch-up with the compatibility level AirFlow has to offer.
- nijave 2y agoJellyfin has slowly been getting better. Client also makes a big difference. I fought issues with Roku advertising capabilities properly before eventually hitting limits (100Mbps Ethernet) and moving to Nvidia Shield which has been working better (but still had an issue with HDR)
- lukasb 2y agoCan anyone compare to Airfoil?
- lukasb 2y agoAh - this works for video, unlike Airfoil.
- seam_carver 2y agoI use this with my Chromecast for years on Windows/macOS. Great stuff for subtitle support srt and more.
- thom 2y agoUsed this for years and years and it’s always worked perfectly. Hugely appreciate that my license is still honoured after all this time.
- daniel_iversen 2y agoIs this kind of app really needed when you can cast the screen from MacOS to the AppleTV? (or does it not work for other airplay devices or is too slow or something).
- alex7o 2y agoYou cast the screen only in 1080p, but media can be cast up to 4k hdr+
- spondylosaurus 2y agoLongtime (and satisfied) Airflow user, albeit casting from Windows to an Android TV: it's the only casting tool I've used that plays nice with subtitles. VLC lets you cast to a TV quite easily, but any subtitle data won't survive the jump.
- Mindwipe 2y agoMacOS does have the functionality built in, it just barely works. It also starts with no errors if it comes across a codec it doesn't like (which is most of them) but then just... doesn't work. Airplay is a big pile of technical debt and they keep rewiring it every few years and not testing if the implementations talk to each other, so it just gets worse and worse.
- yungporko 2y agoscreencasting over airplay sucks for watching stuff, the framerate is just slightly too choppy that its noticeable and annoying, you cant close the lid on your laptop, and you can't easily use it while casting because either you're screen mirroring anyway or your screen has been stretched weirdly because macbooks have their own weird aspect ratio which don't match any TVs.
- c-hendricks 2y ago> your screen has been stretched weirdly because macbooks have their own weird aspect ratio which don't match any TVs. When you cast your screen to an Apple TV, the TV shows as an extra display on the computer, and allows you to set the aspect ratio however you'd like. Either when extending or mirroring. https://imgur.com/a/c3mKbOj https://imgur.com/a/c3mKbOj Am I missing something?
- scirob 2y agoVLC can do this atleast for chrome cast
- VectorLock 2y agoI didn't think my Chromecast was that old (its the puck style) but whenever I try this with VLC using the "Render" menu (on macOS) it just... doesn't work. The Chromecast just never sees it (even though it shows up in the Render menu in VLC)
- nopakos 2y agoThe title should say from macOS to Airplay and Chromecast devices. A very good app. Happy paid user here.
- Storm-Bringer 2y agoNice! Does it work on a Fire TV Stick?
- mrichman 2y agoNot to be confused with Apache Airflow.
- pyinstallwoes 2y agoDoes it work for remote audio like Ableton ?
- nalekberov 2y agoAn app with windows-like UI for $19.99? no thank you
- carlosjobim 2y agoDo you know a cheaper way to airplay to a TV?
- nalekberov 2y agoUnfortunately, no. But I don't think bringing native UI would be so hard.
- carlosjobim 2y agoAren't you supposed to look at the video you're airplaying rather than at the UI on the other screen?
- nalekberov 2y agoYeah, fair point, I am however very picky with UI of apps
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- luckman212 2y agoDoes this allow one to e.g. pipe the current audio output on my Mac to my iPhone so I can walk away for a few minutes and keep listening to whatever YT video, Zoom call or Podcast that happens to be playing? If not, does anyone know of a solution for this? Right now I'm using Jump Desktop which actually does a good job, but consumes lots of extra bandwidth since it also streams the Mac's screen (at near 30fps).
- pulvinar 2y agoFor audio only, Airfoil (paid) and AudioRelay (free) are two choices.