iTunes over a network????

I was wondering if i could play songs that are on another computer in another room but connected threw ethernet.

I have an old imac in my front office that i use to show customers their digital proofs and it only has like 4gb of HD , I also have a powermac in my main office where I all the photo retouching, it also has like over 8gb worth of mp3s. Can I somehow connect the Itunes on my imac to the library of songs on the powermac in my office without copying 8gb worth of mp3s.

thanks
JJ

MultiImages Photo,

There is a good chance that Apple will announce a Rendevous compatible update of iTunes so that you can play music via a network. There is also a good chance that rumors are incorrect. At least you have only a couple of weeks to find out!

tom

Thanks for the reply,
I figured out a way to play songs over a appleshare connection.

I just go into itunes and select add to library and then i click on the songs i want over the apple talk and it puts the songs in the library of the computer but doesent copy them to the computers HD

Thanks
JJ

MultiImages Photo said:

I was wondering if i could play songs that are on another computer
in another room but connected threw ethernet.
I have an old imac in my front office that i use to show customers
their digital proofs and it only has like 4gb of HD , I also have
a powermac in my main office where I all the photo retouching, it
also has like over 8gb worth of mp3s. Can I somehow connect the
Itunes on my imac to the library of songs on the powermac in my
office without copying 8gb worth of mp3s.

thanks
JJ

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The other thing that works is this. Burn a CD from the machine you have your iTunes on (do this IN itunes). You'll get the play list and all the other stuff itunes needs burned with the MP3 music.

Go to the machine you want to play the tunes in but make sure the iTunes folder (usually in the Music Folder under OSX) is EMPTY. When you insert the CD and lanuch iTunes, it will show you all the music but it's not on the hard drive. So you can take this CD to any machine you want but not clog up the machine's CD with music. This is nice if you have a lot of machines as I do in many locations.

What I really like is to burn a DVD with tons of iTunes and play it on my Bose system. I wish my car could access DVD's. Nice to have 5gig's of music. Oh, you can do this with the DVD as suggested above as well as a plan old CD-Rom.

Also, you could just mount the drive with the music over the network and tell the "remote" machine to use the iTunes folder from the mounted drive.
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Sure, you can do that - my sister and her boyfriend do that. She connects her PC to his mac via ethernet and plays songs stored on his mac over the network. It's easy, just put the songs in your shared folder. It's no problem.

MultiImages Photo said:

I was wondering if i could play songs that are on another computer
in another room but connected threw ethernet.
I have an old imac in my front office that i use to show customers
their digital proofs and it only has like 4gb of HD , I also have
a powermac in my main office where I all the photo retouching, it
also has like over 8gb worth of mp3s. Can I somehow connect the
Itunes on my imac to the library of songs on the powermac in my
office without copying 8gb worth of mp3s.

thanks
JJ

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Don't even need iTunes on the other machine... it doesn't even have to be a Mac, as long as you log into that computer and can see the files. Just import them to the iTunes you want to play them in (without saving a copy of them on this machine) then play. iTunes will however alert you if you lose the connection to that other computer (you get a sign in iTunes) but as soon as you connect back to that other computer it'll play nicely again since iTunes saves it's playlists even if it's not connected anymore to that other computer storing the mp3's.

Petra

MultiImages Photo said:

I was wondering if i could play songs that are on another computer
in another room but connected threw ethernet.
I have an old imac in my front office that i use to show customers
their digital proofs and it only has like 4gb of HD , I also have
a powermac in my main office where I all the photo retouching, it
also has like over 8gb worth of mp3s. Can I somehow connect the
Itunes on my imac to the library of songs on the powermac in my
office without copying 8gb worth of mp3s.

thanks
JJ

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I have all my MP3s on a linux file server.

I SMB mount a share from that server to the Powerbook (in this case)

I turn off the 'copy files to local HD' option in iTunes.

I drag/drop the folders/files from my SMB Share (in my case, MP3s).

As long as that share is connected, I can play away.

For the record, All 40GB of my MP3s are from my own personal CD Collection.

I only have about 20GB of them loaded, and they copy to my iPod for when I travel.

hope that helps.