iCommune for iTunes Shares Over Network

Posted by pudge on Friday January 10, 2003 @04:07AM from the sweeeeet dept.

James G. Speth writes "I just released a free public beta of iCommune, a plug-in for iTunes that enables music sharing over the network. Your friends' music libraries appear in the iTunes source list. You can browse their collections, and choose to download or stream their music. It also allows you to make your own music library available to others." It's a bit buggy, but it is a beta. It shows a lot of promise. It also comes with an indexer (in Python, though I might write my own in Perl :-) so you can share MP3s to iTunes clients outside of iTunes on the server end (such as from a Linux box, in theory).

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Re:Rendezvous developer question by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-10 09:16 · Score: 4, Informative

Over at O'Reilly's there's a 2 part article about incorporating Rendezvous in Cocoa apps:
Incorporating Rendezvous into Your Cocoa Applications, Part 1
Try Edna instead? by djupedal · 2003-01-10 12:42 · Score: 4, Informative

"Edna allows you to access your MP3 collection from any networked computer. This software streams your MP3s via HTTP to any MP3 player that supports playing off a remote connection (e.g. Winamp, FreeAmp, Sonique, XMMS)."

A Python stand alone that will index music files and serve up dynamic pages...keeps stats too. Very nice :)