[X4U] itunes & g4 question

[..lj]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 07:25, alexandre wrote:

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> On 8 Feb 2006, at 05:28, Joe Block wrote:
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>> On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:01 PM, alexandre wrote:
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>>> i would like to migrate my itunes library (~30gb and growing)  
>>> from my albook to a g4 tower and share it from there. i will then  
>>> log in from my powerbook and stream it to my hifi system.
>>>
>>> do any of you have any experience with this kind of set-up?
>>> is streaming going to be smooth as it is now?
>>> what kind of g4 tower should i get? is a 450mhz enough?  
>>> obviously, the faster the better, but i'm on budget…
>>> any tips?
>>
>> I would recommend that you put the iTunes on a tower and turn on  
>> Apple Remote Desktop in the Sharing preference pane, then stream  
>> directly from the tower. If you don't have the Apple Remote  
>> Desktop application, you can set it to allow control with VNC and  
>> use Chicken of the VNC or another VNC client to remote control the  
>> tower.
>>
>> I expect streaming directly from the tower will work better than  
>> mounting the drive remotely and streaming from your laptop, if  
>> only because it eliminates the CPU load of compressing and sending  
>> the audio.
>>
>
> hi joe
> thanks for your answer.
>
> the idea was not to mount the drive on my powerbook but to share  
> the tower's itunes library and then stream it from my laptop to the  
> base station.
>
> but ard or vnc sounds good too.
>
> is a fast/powerful mac needed or can an "old" 400-450mhz do the job…?
>
> regards
>
> alexandre
If you are going to stream from your laptop, why do you need a  
separate tower? Just place your iTunes library onto a external drive  
and point to it with ln -s command.

You could even create a simple script that would switch between a  
local iTunes library and the external one.
..lj