But 3rd-party software (like Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil) can offer a lot of nice features that are not present in 10.8: Routing of output from arbitrary apps to an AirPlay device (even without app-level support), simultaneous output to multiple Airplay devices throughout the home, graphic EQ, etc. etc.
Routing of output from arbitrary apps to an AirPlay device (even without app-level support), simultaneous output to multiple Airplay devices throughout the home
Both of these things you can do with the built in AirPlay support in 10.8+
How? I'm on 10.8.4, and in the 'Sound' preferences panel the only option I can see is to route all sound out to a single Airplay device (I can't multi-select more than one Airplay device).
Typical use case for me using Airfoil: Send Spotify output to an AppleTV, and a couple Airport Express devices, while all other apps send their output to my Mac's speakers.
If this is your response then 1) you don't own Airfoil nor understand how nice it is compared to the simplistic ability 10.8 brought to the table 2) you don't have other sink sources that are non OS X.
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But 3rd-party software (like Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil) can offer a lot of nice features that are not present in 10.8: Routing of output from arbitrary apps to an AirPlay device (even without app-level support), simultaneous output to multiple Airplay devices throughout the home, graphic EQ, etc. etc.
Both of these things you can do with the built in AirPlay support in 10.8+
How? I'm on 10.8.4, and in the 'Sound' preferences panel the only option I can see is to route all sound out to a single Airplay device (I can't multi-select more than one Airplay device).
Typical use case for me using Airfoil: Send Spotify output to an AppleTV, and a couple Airport Express devices, while all other apps send their output to my Mac's speakers.
If this is your response then 1) you don't own Airfoil nor understand how nice it is compared to the simplistic ability 10.8 brought to the table 2) you don't have other sink sources that are non OS X.