Signal - The Ultimate Remote Control for Your PC's Media Player

A nifty feature included in the Apple TV “Take 2″ software update is the ability to use your Apple TV as an AirTunes speaker. You can now select your Apple TV from the speaker selection drop-down in iTunes to play your music or radio stations through the device.

Just as with the Airport Express, Signal integrates seamlessly with this solution, allowing you to drive the music playing through the Apple TV from anywhere in the house. If you happen to have the TV on at the same time the Apple TV will display album art for the currently playing song too, making for a nice visual compliment to your music.

MacSanta is a fantastic promotion through which Mac software developers offer special holiday discounts on their products. Each day in December a new set of featured applications are revealed, and available for 20% off on that day. If you miss an application’s featured day, all previously revealed applications are still available at 10% off the rest of the month.

I’m proud to say that Alloysoft is part of the MacSanta promotion and for the rest of today you can purchase Signal at a 20% discount using coupon code MACSANTA07. That drops Signal’s price to under $20! If you miss today’s deal you can still get the 10% discount the rest of December using coupon code MACSANTA07TEN. Happy holidays!

Update: The promotion has ended, thanks to everyone who participated!

About This Particular Macintosh has posted a review of Signal.

In the words of Steve Jobs, just like the iPhone itself, “it works like magic.”       

I think this is a great way to describe the initial experience with the app. You’re standing somewhere completely away from the computer, tap the screen and boom - music starts pumping through the whole house. Just like magic. Thanks go out to Lee and the ATPM staff for the great feedback!

Signal 1.0.4 is now available and resolves a Leopard compatibility problem, an issue with displaying track titles for shared iTunes libraries on Windows, and includes several stability improvements for the HTML interface. Full details are available in the release notes.

This is a bug fix release that primarily addresses issues with playing and displaying songs that contain extended characters, but does include a couple of useful improvements.

• The media library back button now remembers the last page it was on when navigating backwards, and can also navigate back into the previous search result.
• When playing videos through iTunes the videos are now played using the default playback preference (set in iTunes under iTunes > Preferences > Playback). So if the default playback preference is full screen or windowed mode, videos or TV shows started through Signal will now use this as well.

The full list of changes is available in the release notes.