iTunes Music Server on Linux

Friday, Mar. 4 2005 | Author: Scrivs

There is no reason to have massive music collection and not have the ability to stream it out to every computer in the house. Here is a tutorial showing you how to setup a iTunes server on Linux so that you have such capabilities. I need to do this with my Linux box since I now have a laptop to walk around the house with.

Only crappy thing is that it requires the manual compilation of some packages, unless of course you have a cool distro that has an awesome package management tool (eg. Debian) then you should be home free.

If I ever get around to doing this I will let you know how it works out.

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3 Responses for "iTunes Music Server on Linux"

Dimitry

March 4th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
1

Hm but can’t you just make your music available on the network?

That’s what I do and listen to all my music from the laptop.
Scrivs

March 4th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
2

For some reason iTunes wasn’t picking up the music on his Linux server so he had to use the software he describes in the article to get it working. I have yet to try either way so I am not sure if he is just wasting his time or not.

If you are on an all Mac network then I am sure sharing becomes really easy and the same with Windows.
Paul Howard

March 4th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
3

Or get one of these?

http://mp3beamer.com/