Anthological

Nifty thing to do if you have too much music to fit on your ipod:

Share your iTunes library online

Excerpt:
After much frustration, I’ve finally set up my new mac mini to stream all my music to my work laptop. I say frustration, because whilst there is plenty of help out there, none of it in itself was complete enough to get me up and running. Some where too mac to mac, some to unix to mad, some unix to windows. Nothing really gave me the step by step, follow this and it will work guide.

So, I present “The definitive guide to setting up iTunes streaming via the internet from a Mac running OSX to your PC running windows”. Phew that’s a mouthful.

The Short Guide

1. Turn iTunes sharing on

2. Turn on remote login

3. Open up the Mac firewall on ports 22 & 3689

4. Forward port 22 on your router to your Mac

5. Download and install SSHTunnelClient

6. Setup a SSH Tunnel from your PC to your Mac

7. Download and install Rendezvous Proxy

8. Setup an iTunes daap listener

9. Open up the PC firewall on port 3689

10. Open iTunes, listen to music over the internet

Essentially what we are going to do, is create a SSH tunnel between the local (windows) and the remote (mac) machines. When then fool the local machine into thinking that the remote machine is local, and whammo we have music.