[TC]

I was wondering if it would be possible for a mac to pretend to be an Airport Express so you could stream your audio to another mac?
This would be good for me since I have my G3 B&W attached to my stereo but would like to control what iTunes is playing from my portable.

I've read up a bit about how AirTunes works and iTunes is transmitting the data to the Airport Express using Apple's Lossless Encoder which I guess can be decoded by any machine running the latest version of quicktime. I guess the main thing is figuring out how a mac could broadcast itself as being available to act like an Airport Express?

Anyone have any ideas on how to achieve this or if it might not be technically possible?

[ambush]

Originally posted by TC:
I was wondering if it would be possible for a mac to pretend to be an Airport Express so you could stream your audio to another mac?
This would be good for me since I have my G3 B&W attached to my stereo but would like to control what iTunes is playing from my portable.

I've read up a bit about how AirTunes works and iTunes is transmitting the data to the Airport Express using Apple's Lossless Encoder which I guess can be decoded by any machine running the latest version of quicktime. I guess the main thing is figuring out how a mac could broadcast itself as being available to act like an Airport Express?

Anyone have any ideas on how to achieve this or if it might not be technically possible?

You'd have to buy one and see. I donno.

I think it may be rendez vous based? No idea.

There's a protocol too....

[mitchell_pgh]

It's $15, but you should consider this:

http://www.ovolab.com/remotetunes/

[Toyin]

If you have 2 computers (PC or Mac) with iTunes 4.5 you can share both libraries over a network. To emulate Airport Express all you need to do is plug in one computer to a stereo and you're golden. With printer sharing you can also share your printer with other machines (though I find it easier on my network to have the printer connected to a PC). I'm not sure if an Apple Laptop can boost an extreme base station like Airport express.

However if you only have one Mac, the price is right for all the things this little thing can do.

[Millennium]

Originally posted by ambush:
You'd have to buy one and see. I donno.

I think it may be rendez vous based? No idea.

There's a protocol too....

The discovery aspect is almost certainly Rendezvous-based. That's the easy part.

The protocol shouldn't be too difficult to reverse-engineer; it's not like it does very much. The real problem comes from the fact that the stream is supposedly encrypted. You'd need some kind of way to discover the key. That's unlikely, but it may be possible; they found the keys for DeCSS because a certain DVD player manufacturer got lazy in protecting its key. Basically, it comes down to figuring out what measures Apple took to protect its key.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by TC:
I was wondering if it would be possible for a mac to pretend to be an Airport Express so you could stream your audio to another mac?
This would be good for me since I have my G3 B&W attached to my stereo but would like to control what iTunes is playing from my portable.

Are you basically looking for a solution to play music remotely on your G3 B&W Mac, right ?

How about a simple VNC setup (http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html)
to control yout whole G3 remotely.
Then you can do ANYTHING from afar, including controlling iTunes.

-t

[turtle777]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
It's $15, but you should consider this:

http://www.ovolab.com/remotetunes/

or this:

http://www.deadendsw.com/Products/webRemote.html

-t