half a cat

So, I’ve fired up the shuttle again, as it has quite a bit of horsepower. The basics are Radeon 9800 Pro, 2.8Ghz P4, 1GB Dual Channel DDR, 60G SATA, DVD+RW burrner, gigE, firewire, USB2, etc. etc. To complicate the matters of switching primary workstations, I’ve a ton of music squirrled away in iTunes on my powerbook G4, and we use crossover office for work, I figured I’d give the whole linux-faking-as-in-orgasm-iTunes-server a whirl.

Details that might help:

• iTunes under cxoffice works well
  • don’t forget to turn on hardware emulation
  • it will do the whole rendevous thing and allow you to play music from any iTunes machine, OS X or Windows
• linux iTunes Server — fakes being an iTunes export
  • several links gentoo wiki & macosxhints & linux gazette
  • you might need lame or faac
  • Rendezvous compile instructions
  • you want to use Rendezvous-58.8 not the latest, as it works better on linux
  • line for firewall changes
  • Remember: it will take some time for daapd to plow through your library, so be patient and wait before trying to use the export that shows up in iTunes.
• mt-daapd looks to work much better than regular daapd
  • mt-daapd homepage
  • great link on setting up mt-dappd on linux