Another method of streaming audio via iTunes

Nov 13, '06 07:30:02AM

Contributed by: VAleks

Looking through various hints (like this one, or on the icecast mailing list) about making your own streaming station with iTunes, I wanted something relatively simple. I just wanted to route all sounds coming from my Mac to a UNIX system (Solaris, in my case), and something like icecast was far more powerful than what I needed. I decided to make it UNIX way with maximum offload of a task to my Solaris box.

Preparation for solution is quite simple:

To actually stream do the following: This idea is far more simple and gives a degree of possibility to put encoding where you want, but is less useful when you want to stream to several hosts at once (something you can do with icecast). If you prefer a more OS X-styled solution, you can play with MuSE and icecast, but the major drawback of such solutions is caching of stream everywhere so that sound will be delayed for several seconds.

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