[spam]

I've been trying to do something like Airport Express AirTunes for months. I have an old PowerBook connected to my stereo, and use it to play music stored on a file server on my network. What I'd really like to do, though, is to be able to stream music to that PowerBook from Macs in other rooms.

"Sharing" in iTunes isn't really "streaming," even if that's technically what's happening, since I have to choose which tracks to play from the sharing client. And the various remote control methods I've tried are too cumbersome to be really useful.

Isn't there some way to select a track in iTunes on the Mac in the kitchen, and have it play that track through the Mac in the den that's connected to the stereo? If Airport Express can do it, surely a whole computer can do the same thing?

[mitchell_pgh]

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

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[mattmarshall]

that remote-tunes looks awesome.

I'm looking for similar advice. I have a powerbook with a small hard-drive, and I keep all my music on a 80 gig firewire drive. I would love to be ablt to access these files wirelessly, and also play them to my stereo, without my powerbook being connected to it at all.

I've thought about buying an old iMac, and setting it up as a server. With thet Remote-tunes, this could work well (if I had the imac hooked up to the stereo.)

Any other suggestions? What is the easiest way to get that firewire drive to share wirelessly, and get the songs to play through my stereo? If the new Airport Epress had a FW port, I would buy it ASAP. It would be perfect.

- matt

[Grrr]

QuickTime Broadcaster
This should do it. Although you will need to route audio from the Mac sending the music, back into the mac. There are numerous ways to do that.. Either with a cable, or some software jiggery pokery. But it can be done..

[mattmarshall]

ideally, I don't want another Mac in my room. If I could find some way to add the firewire drive to my airport network, without a whole other comptuer, that would be great. Is that possible?

[C.J. Moof]

Why not just build your own FM transmitter?