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Remotely control AirPort Express with a laptop
Authored by: Fofer on Nov 22, '04 11:36:07AM

Wait a second. Just wait one second now. Why is this tip necessary?

Your music is on a desktop Mac, near a stereo with an Airport Express. You have a wireless PowerBook from which you'd also like to access said music, and play it through to the stereo. (Perhaps you've got too much music to copy onto the laptop, and/or perhaps you want a "central depository" to organize the family's music library and sync everyone's iPod to... that's cool, no worries.)

Why not just enable iTunes sharing on the desktop? The music library then nicely and automatically shows up in the "Source" column on the remote PowerBook's iTunes, and then you can select the Airport Express as the audio output. No SlimServer needed, no jumping through hoops.

I know it works, because I do it all the time.

What am I missing here?



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