[peeb]

I share my iTunes library - is there any way to find out who is listening to it, or what they listen to?

[brassplayersrock²]

only the number of people that are listening. sorry mr. peep

[brassplayersrock²]

i take that back. from another site:

Who are listening to my tunes?
Ever wondering who those "n users connected" are when you look at the Sharing part of the Preferences of your iTunes? Well wonder no more - it turns out fairly easy to figure out in Terminal.app; just type this line:

lsof -r 2 -n -P -F n -c iTunes -a -i TCP@`hostname`:3689
and it will tell you the IP address of each connection, together with the music file the connection is listening to. lsof is a UNIX tool which is capable of listing the files a particular process opens - including even the files being accessed from remote connections, such as NFS, and iTunes in our case. Some short explanations of the parameters used:

-r 2: list the opened files repeatedly, and refresh the list every 2 seconds.
-n: show numeric IP address instead of domain names.
-P: show port info in numbers instead of names (e.g., 3689 vs. `daap').
-F n: display field `name' (n).
-c iTunes: only list files opened by process with name 'iTunes'.
-a: logical `and' to connect more than one conditions.
-i TCP@`hostname`:3689: only list files involving the specified address; in this case the protocol must be TCP, connecting to my machine, and connecting to port 3689.
Of course based on the result you can do all kinds of fancy things, like accumulating statistics about which tunes get listened to most often, and so on. I'm too lazy to write an app like that - let me know if you write one though!

Benjamin Han: UNIX Tips for Mac OS X

[FireWire]

I thought Apple limited the scope of people that could listen to your subnet, under pressure from the recording industries, a few revisions after iTunes first went out?

[mdc]

They did.
Maybe peeb is in an airport terminal, college, starbucks, or any other place like that

My wife and I were looking through someone's iTunes library the last time we were in an airport terminal. The guy had a bunch of porn in there.

[peeb]

It's over a work network. You can no longer download, but I don't know what restrictions there are on how many people can stream. Thanks!

[cybergoober]

I believe iTunes sharing is limited to 5 connections per day now. I can't remember where I read that now, though.

[peeb]

That sounds possible - I don't see more than five at any one time.

[Chongo]

I stream to my DirecTV HR20 in the living room

[SSharon]

if you don't like to use the terminal you can get the same info by using the activity monitor app. Open it up, click on iTunes and click inspect process. In the resulting window click on the open files tab and scroll all the way to the bottom.

[brassplayersrock²]

wow. good to know ssharon. thank you :-)

Alex