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Share your iTunes library with iTunes catalog AND MP3 Sushi Apps
I tried almost avery application to share my iTunes music library, and I came up with the conclusion that MP3 Sushi (for its simplicity) and iTunes Catalog (for its look) are the best solutions. iTunes Catalog would be sufficient, but it's still very buggy (sometimes it doesn't keep your preference changes, and the links to the songs, are often broken). So, here is a step-to-step guide to make the most of these two applications.
  1. If you are on a network (like AirPort), forward port 12777 to port 12777 on the local computer storing your music (I chose this port because more and more Internet providers are now blocking the traditional 8000, or 8010 ports).
  2. In MP3 Sushi, open Preferences -> Network, type your Current external IP address (you can find it at whatismyaddress.com), and type 12777 in the "Jukebox port." In Preferences -> General, set the following:
    • Jukebox music folder location: choose the folder where you keep your music files
    • Send music: as files (mp3)
    • Downsample: Never
  3. In iTunes Catalog preferences, under Links choose "None," "Album Artwork," "Play Song," and "Album Artwork." In Media Sources -> Music, choose:
    • Catalogs will play music from "My Web Server"
    • The URL for my music is: "http://YOUR.IP.ADDRESS:12777/" -- you have to substitute YOUR.IP.ADDRESS with the address you found above.
    • Artwork: Catalogs will display album artwork from "Amazon"
Now you're all set. Click on Export as HTML in iTunes Catalog, and the application will create a webpage (with Amazon CD covers, and links to your own music files), that you can upload to your .Mac homepage, your remote, or local server. When creating the page, make sure you choose: Detail: Artists, Albums, & Songs. The links to your files will work, as long as your computer is on, and the MP3 Sushi Jukebox program is active.
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Share your iTunes library with iTunes catalog AND MP3 Sushi
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Jun 22, '04 10:51:56AM

Interesting hint I've actually been meaning to do this, myself, but got distracted some issues with PostFix on my CubeServer.

One concern that might be easily answered by attempting to implement this: this only provides the stream, correct -- not the actual file, right?

I absolutely love MP3 Sushi, and have been using it to stream from home to office for more than a year... The only gripe I have is that it doesn't support AAC files (non-iTMS, of course).



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Share your iTunes library with iTunes catalog AND MP3 Sushi
Authored by: corvine on Jun 22, '04 11:45:45AM

I have been trying to use mp3 sushi server, I have found that with my DSL connection that I have to rebuffer every 10 seconds. I am guessing that the "up" on my home dsl will not allow enough transfer to let me listen at work. I have played with some of the quality controls but i am still having problems.

Also the other things that was hard to figure out was that I had to put in the local network IP not the public IP when I was doing some of the setup.



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Share your iTunes library with iTunes catalog AND MP3 Sushi
Authored by: mustang_dvs on Jun 22, '04 12:41:38PM
If you're trying to use Sushi to serve to the outside world via a dynamically-assigned aDSL, you'll need to use a router and port-forwarding (also, a domain name an a DynDNS or EasyDNS (dynamic) set-up will help greatly).

Most commercial aDSL connections have extremely poor Upstream performance (Verizon, Earthlink - I'm looking at you) mainly because that's not what they're intended for -- a business class "SOHO" aDSL (from Covad, Megapath, etc) with a guaranteed 384kbps or greater upload speed will make a world of difference for a little more money per month.

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Share your iTunes library with iTunes catalog AND MP3 Sushi
Authored by: William McCallum on Jun 22, '04 12:55:54PM
If you want to stream AAC files (in addition to mp3, etc.), try slimserver . Although it was originally written to go with the SliMP3 device, it also serves your iTunes library over a network, and it's open source software. You might also need the open source LAME encoder, I don't remember. The software comes with instructions on how to do this.

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Share your iTunes library with iTunes catalog AND MP3 Sushi
Authored by: babbage on Jun 23, '04 10:23:10PM

THANK YOU!

This software is fan-*censored*ing-tastic. *

It's obviously been written with great attention to detail by people who really know and really care what they're doing. It's nice, clean, easy to poke around with, the installer is a simple Bourne shell script, it's implemented (at least partly) in Perl, the installation is dirt easy, the interface is attractive and highly functional, the configuration file is straightforward and easy to tinker with, etc.

I could go on and on...

I had been kind of annoyed that I couldn't get the Apache::MP3 library to work right with my web server, but to hell with that, this is way easier and on top of that it's way more polished.

I can't believe I've never heard of this software before tonight. More people need to know about SlimServer!


* how cute, this cms censors adult language. oh well...

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Share your iTunes library with iTunes catalog AND MP3 Sushi
Authored by: carlos_cardenas on Jun 22, '04 03:34:23PM
If anyone is interested in sharing their music (even a dedicated iTunes music server running on Linux or other POSIX compliant machine), I suggest using mt-daapd, http://mt-daapd.sourceforge.net/

Here are some brief features

  • Supports static playlists (.m3u files)
  • Supports dynamic playlists through a script-like language
  • Supports web-based management and basic administration
  • Supports most ID3v1 and v2 tags via libid3tag
  • Supports AAC files (iTunes .m4a and .m4p)
  • Runs as a daemon

With full Rendezvous support, including Howl !!!

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