[FoxInSox]

I know I can now share my Library with other computers in my home (nice!), but can I stream music to those computers so they are all playing the same thing?

[::maroma::]

I don't think so. I think it's more of a passive sharing thing. Meaning, you can't "broadcast" your songs, but others can browse your list and play whatever they want.

[SomeToast]

I was hoping against hope that iTunes 4 would allow broadcasting -- of the being a source to a SHOUTcast/IceCast/Live365-type server variety.

Audion will continue to chug away in the background (and crash far too often) for me still.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

What about MP3 sushi?

[SomeToast]

I've seen that one, but unfortunately, it too keeps a playlist separately from iTunes (it plays everything from a directory you point it at).

My dream would be the speed, organization tools, stability and AppleScriptablity of iTunes plus the encoder/broadcast component of Audion (or SoundJam, for that matter).

I've looked into contracting the programming job out, but it sounds like such a plug-in isn't possible (at least, not with any of the iTunes interfaces Apple makes public).

[Gee4orce]

Shame you can only share so long as iTunes is open, and only that user's songs. It would be nice to have it run in the background, or for you to pick up the shared songs of another user on the same machine you're using.

[kiskynet]

have you tried using Quicktime Streaming Server, that'l do what your after for streaming and broadcasting

[SomeToast]

Originally posted by kiskynet:
have you tried using Quicktime Streaming Server, that'l do what your after for streaming and broadcasting

Yes I did, but it also requires it's own unique playlist -- managed through a browser, which quickly becomes unwieldy.

Otherwise, to encode on the fly, (and not from a directory of pre-downsampled MP3s) you have to take the audio out from the computer, pipe it back in and encode that (losing song track info and passing along the stream any other sounds the computer happens to make).

It's why I've had a Griffin iMic gathering dust on top of the Quicksilver box for close to a year.

[Mithras]

This is exactly the feature I'm still pining for as well.

More and more people have a central "Jukebox" Mac, and it'd be great to have other Macs (or mp3 players) be able to pick up a stream from that Mac.

Of course, the sound would be out of sync due to buffering anyway, but I'd still like it...

[sambeau]

Originally posted by Mithras:

Of course, the sound would be out of sync due to buffering anyway, but I'd still like it...

Not neccesarily - don't forget that apple now own tons of industrial strength music code.

Getting streams of music to stay in sync is not that hard. Lets face it SMPTE timecode whatsits used to manage to get a number of tape recorders to play in sync. A few streams of bytes should be simple compared to that..

I don't know about logic - but other professional sound apps let you colaborate musically over the internet - very similar problem (if a bit more complex).