how to access itunes over internet

[ahmadof]

we just got broadband at the office and i want to listen to my itunes music from my home computer. How is this done? thanks

 

[varmit]

we just got broadband at the office and i want to listen to my itunes music from my home computer. How is this done? thanks

Apple doesn't allow it because this could cause mass piracy of music. If you want to take your music with you, get an iPod. You can plug it into the computer at work and play your music in iTunes, and even listen to any song you want in your car.

Plus, you will hog lots of bandwidth, and your co-workers will get pissed at you for taking it all up.

 

[ahmadof]

i have an iPod, but

my computer at work (G3 bronze powerbook) does not have firewire. i could just take the dock along and speakers, but that's far more work than just leaving my computer on at home while i'm at work

 

[4409723]

It's possible to do it via http. I do it occasionally.

Set the permissions on your music folder to read only for other users, make an alias, put it in your sites folder, turn on apache and point a webbrowser to http://yourip/~yourshortname/Aliasname

If you get a 403 error it means your permissions are set wrong somewhere.

 

[wwooden]

here

This link should do the trick. I haven't tried it yet, so I would be curious as to how easy it was to do. I hope that helped. 🙂

 

[4409723]

This link should do the trick. I haven't tried it yet, so I would be curious as to how easy it was to do. I hope that helped. 🙂

That article is from May 2003, I think Apple has since disabled that method and only allows direct sharing on machines with the same subnet.

Edited: for silliness.

 

[vniow]

That article is from May 2005, I think Apple has since disabled that method and only allows direct sharing on machines with the same subnet.

You know Apple's not a force to be reckoned with when they can disable things like that from the future!

 

[Sun Baked]

You know Apple's not a force to be reckoned with when they can disable things like that from the future!

Well it's all Steve Jobs, he set out to develop the next generation OS in 1987 after leaving Apple -- and developed the OS that Window is still trying to catch up with. 😱

Of course MS floundered around for a decade trying to catch up with the Mac OS -- and really did catch up and pass us -- not knowing that the real competition was already sitting on the shelf for many years while they boasted in their victory.

 

[crees!]

my computer at work (G3 bronze powerbook) does not have firewire. i could just take the dock along and speakers, but that's far more work than just leaving my computer on at home while i'm at work

Two things:

Since you don't have Firewire can't you use USB? I mean they have it for Windows users who don't have Firewire.

Do you have speakers at work? Just plug the stereo cable into the headphone jack of the iPod.

K.I.S.S.