mt-daap for iTunes sharing under Linux

So, tonight I was complaining that the mini didn't have any music, and how I really needed a way to share all the music I had between computers. Since I had macs, it made sense that I hsould be able to - except I have lots of hard drive space on the Linux box, and not so much on either the mini or the laptop. I didn't really expect a solution, but I was, luckily, complaining around someone who actually had the ability to help me. jc let me know about howl and mt-daap, which let one share music from Linux over apple's DAAP.

After some dicking around, I've got both the macs now reading the music from peanut, and mDNSSResponder serving out information on the availability of the music sharing service. The windows PC could also connect with iTunes, but it has the slight problem of not being fast enough to play mp3s ;)

This all makes me very happy, and makes me love macs (for having the protocol) and open source (for engineering an open solution to using it) all the more. I love things which just work, and I love solutions which do what I need and want.

Pragmatism Revolution!

* Posted by crschmidt on #d8uv.com at 2005-01-25 05:40:34 UTC.
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