[X4U] itunes & g4 question

[Joe Block]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:01 PM, alexandre wrote:
>
> 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.

jpb
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