I have a server under the house, with several large drives on it, that contains > 300 CDs worth of music in Apple Lossless format. I have two Macs that access that music via iTunes, one in my office and one in the kitchen. I have an old WallStreet PowerBook in the den, connected to the stereo, and use it to play music from that server, too.
What I would like to do, is use iTunes on either the computer in the office or the one in the kitchen to play music on the stereo. I think the Airport Express would do exactly what I want, except I hate to pay for another piece of hardware, when I have a laptop sitting there, already. Besides, I've already run wires, so I don't need the wireless part.
I've experimented with using command-line Unix tools or VNC to remotely control the laptop connected to the stereo. That works, but VNC is painfully slow, and command-line tools are no fun.
Does anybody know of some way to make something other than an Airport Express show up in iTunes as a remote speaker. Heard of an open-source project to do that which I could help out with? Have another idea for what I'm trying to do?
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