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Re-enable iTunes sharing outside local subnet
Authored by: bluehz on Feb 29, '04 12:14:40AM
I have successfully shared my iTunes Library outside my LAN (across the internet) to a user running Windows NT with a combination of Rendezvous Proxy and mt-daapd. My goal was to setup a server that would allow interaction with the library without having to have iTunes open. mt-daapd is a very nice Rendezvous iTunes server you run on the machine where your audio files are that you wish to share. Rendezvous Proxy is a cross-platform java app that runs on the client (remote person wishing to access your itunes library).

I am currently working on some documentation and a Mac installer for mt-daapd for the developer so hopefully they will be available soon. Until then you will need to compile it yourself. You could in fact do without the mt-daapd server as long as you leave your itunes open, but it has been my experience that iTunes is unrealiable as the server end of it. The nice thing about mt-daapd is that it supports playlists and smart playlists, plus it can be built on many unix variants (Linux, etc).

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