From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 01:45:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAD116A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 01:45:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chaos.fxp.org (chaos.fxp.org [209.251.159.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1321143D2D for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 01:45:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@fxp.org) Received: from [10.2.0.150] (c-67-166-204-177.client.comcast.net [67.166.204.177]) by chaos.fxp.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCFC3EB; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:45:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: References: <56BC8436-5E81-11D9-AD10-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> <4469EBCA-5E84-11D9-A810-000A9592DF7A@lanoticia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-Id: <810B5932-5EBB-11D9-9284-000A95CEE8B4@fxp.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Bob Bomar Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:45:40 -0600 To: Timothy Luoma X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.1 (v33, 10.3) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iTunes server SUCCESS!! Here are my notes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 01:45:33 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 4, 2005, at 7:41 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Alvaro J. Gurdi=E1n wrote: > >> This sounds very interesting. But I am not sure I understand very=20 >> well what exactly is the task you were trying to accomplish. Are you=20= >> controlling iTunes (and all it's music library) on your Mac from a=20 >> FreeBSD box somewhere on the net, and playing it on the FreeBSD box? >> >> Because that sounds like something I might be interested in doing > > It's mostly about impressing women, but there are more practical=20 > purposes as well :-) > > iTunes is on my Mac, playing music which is stored on my FreeBSD=20 > machine. They are both on the same private subnet. > > The practical aspect of this is that I can remove my MP3 collection=20 > from my Powerbook and just keep it on the FreeBSD server. > > If the FreeBSD machine were not behind a firewall, yes I could play my=20= > iTunes collection anywhere on the internet (and I suppose with some=20 > tweaking of my firewall, I still could) but that would be dealing with=20= > much smaller bandwidth. > > If there were others on my subnet, yes, they too would be able to play=20= > music from the same collection. > I just setup a Samba server, and setup a directory that holds my music,=20= then use Hymn (playfair) to convert m4p to mp4, then lame and some other tools to convert to mp3, and share the music across the network. I tried=20 using Netatalk, but ran into some problems with file name lengths, and samba works just=20 fine. - -- Bob Bomar bob@bomar.us http://bob.bomar.us - --------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFB20bI9Jm/aTrtdKoRAn6jAKCFaLtAtcDV5CLF4Bwk8pDxGlwmQwCeOGoG gzEYGv2CBv6fvV65byTjadM=3D =3DV82/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----