controlling music over network

Post by **dnoyc** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:32 pm

ok so here's the deal. i've been looking (allbeit not too thoroughly) for some way to control my media over the network. here's my setup: i have a desktop on which i use itunes (i finally caved in) to play my music. usually i am using my laptop instead, which is a feet away from my desktop. so i'd like some way to control my music from my laptop. my inital thought was remote desktop, but in rd, it starts playing the music on the laptop which sucks cuz laptop speakers are pretty weak.

so any suggestions?

Post by **bork[e]** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:35 pm

Well, I have no idea other than remote. And in the setting of your remote desktop go into your "Local Resource" tab and change the sound options to "leave at remote computer".

Post by **dnoyc** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:41 pm

oh, hey that was simple.

but now that we're at it, if anyone has any better way to do it let me know.

thanks.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:41 pm

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

This just uses the current logon to play with it- so you're not going to get the sound transfering to your PC.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:44 pm

Or maybe a remote control for iTunes itself http://homepage.mac.com/kylecopeland/FileSharing11.html

Post by **dnoyc** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:45 pm

PhoeniX wrote:Or maybe a remote control for iTunes itself http://homepage.mac.com/kylecopeland/FileSharing11.html

i was looking for one of those, but i only found one for mac, thanks.

edit: nm it's for tivo only, but a step in the right direction.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:54 pm

oh :E. If you used Winamp it would be easier

Post by **PhoeniX** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:55 pm

I doubt it would be too hard to code something, over a webbrowser say to do it though.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:02 pm

PhoeniX wrote:oh :E. If you used Winamp it would be easier

aye. a company where i worked a few years back had a 'musiccomputer' on the floor which could be controlled by everybody through a winamp plugin

Post by **dnoyc** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:14 pm

PhoeniX wrote:oh :E. If you used Winamp it would be easier

i was looking into winamp last night. i didn't see anything specifically that would do that. thing is i stopped using winamp as soon as AOL acquired them. i might be convinved to give it a try.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:48 pm

dnoyc wrote:
PhoeniX wrote:oh :E. If you used Winamp it would be easier
i was looking into winamp last night. i didn't see anything specifically that would do that. thing is i stopped using winamp as soon as AOL acquired them. i might be convinved to give it a try.

http://www.browseamp.com/