Create an easy to use shortcut to your shared iTunes4 music

May 05, '03 08:47:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you are like me, you've fallen in love with streaming mp3s from your home Mac to a laptop Mac at work. If so, here's a quickie way to bookmark your machine at home on your laptop to automatically launch iTunes and connect to your home Mac.

First find /Applications -> Applescript -> Script Menu.menu and double-click it to put the Script Menu in your menubar. Now launch the AppleScript editor and create this script:

tell application "iTunes"
    open location "daap://Your_home_mac's_IP_address"
end tell
Once you create the above script, save it as a compiled script and put it in ~/Library/Scripts and you can launch it from the script menu! As a reminder, don't forget to: [robg adds: The built-in streaming/sharing of music in iTunes4 makes it easy to turn your machine into your own personal radio station, and this hint makes it easy to keep your radio station a click away...]

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