iTunes on the mac was pretty cool. iTunes on windows is even cooler. Why? Because I use a PC way more than I get to use Val’s mac 
I guess I didn’t think the sharing would work, right off the bat, but it sure does, to Mac iTunes users, no matter. This is good news–at home, my PC is the one with all the CDs ripped to it–my wife’s PowerBook only has a few CDs; now she can stream them off my harddrive if I leave iTunes on, and she can use my PC to play stuff if she wants it loud (it’s connected to the big Logitech Z680’s in the livingroom).
Second point–I installed it at work on my T30 notebook, and realized that the mac users upstairs in the graphics department have weird taste in music, but cool. Interesting to check it all out.
Of course, this is standard out-of-the box stuff. Nothing mind-blowing. What we really need is to be able to stream stuff off the linux box sitting next to me. Someone must have done that. Yes, they have. A little compiling and tweaking later, I’ve got it working for me. Shweet. Thanks to this story at macoshints.com for the juicy bits). Basically, follow that article… I was doing this on RH9, no big deal, only thing that wasn’t clear from the article is that you do the build (make os=linux) in the mDNSPosix dir of the Rendezvous download from apple, and then the binaries are in build/. (I did sudo cp build/* /usr/local/bin/). Also, you’ll need to add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf if not already there (and then run ldconfig as root.) Make sure you get daapd going (requires building a couple smaller libraries first, and make install’ing them.). Copy the daapd-example.conf to /etc/daapd.conf, and configure. Then, here’s the (cheesy, and not perfect, I know) init script I made (/etc/init.d/itunes): This will obviously require some editing before it’ll work for you!
#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for mDNSProxyResponderPosix and daap, ie. iTunes server
#
# chkconfig: 2345 95 05
# description: set up this machine for Rendezvous and DAAP protocol (iTunes sharing)
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
. /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
prog=”mDNSProxyResponderPosix”
prog2=”daapd”
[ -f /usr/local/bin/$prog ] || exit 0
[ -f /usr/local/bin/$prog2 ] || exit 0
start() {
echo $”Starting $prog: ”
CMD=”mDNSProxyResponderPosix 172.20.31.170 dotnet ‘Ben RedHat9′ _daap._tcp. 3689″
#echo “Running: $CMD”
$CMD &
RETVAL=$?
touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog
echo $”Starting $prog2: ”
CMD=$prog2
$CMD &
RETVAL=$?
touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog2
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
echo -n $”Stopping $prog: ”
killproc $prog
echo
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog
echo -n $”Stopping $prog: ”
killproc $prog2
echo
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog2
return $RETVAL
}
case “$1″ in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status $prog
status $prog2
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
condrestart)
if test “x`pidof $prog`” != x; then
stop
start
fi
;;
*)
echo $”Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}”
exit 1
esac
exit 0
By the way, Eclipse rocks too. I’ve kinda given up on Komodo, and am just using Emacs again for PHP. Sigh.
Tags: apple, engineering, iTunes, linux