[P1] iTunes over airport?

[Richard McKay]

Brian,

I can only tell you my experience to hopefully help you...

I had recently posted that after establishing a airport network connection
between my iBook and iMac I had used airport card and iBook with iTunes to
connect to the iTunes folder on my iMac (connected to airport base station
by ethernet cable)...I changed the advanced preferences setting in iTunes on
the Book to be the file I had access to on the iMac (iTunes folder) as well
as removed the "copy files to iTunes music folder..." option and then used
the File menu command "add to Library" on the Book to add the music files to
the library but not copy them...this worked great (granted iTunes first had
to go through the list of songs and adjust the volume...as per settings) and
then voila I had the iTunes interface on the iBook with the link to the
files on the iMac, as long as I was still connected to the iMac...I later
turned them off and rebooted in the morning to find that the setup didn't
work anymore...I was using DHCP settings for the connections so the
addresses used in the intranet were different...may have worked with a
static address...your mileage may vary...

HTH, if you experiment let us know what works in the end...

Cheers,

Richard
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Brian Fish wrote:

> Question:  I've got my new iBook and my Dell PC connected over airport, and
> sharing files between them wirelessly is a breeze.  Is there a way to access
> my mp3 library (that is located on my PC) over airport in iTunes without
> having to copy the mp3 files to my iTunes library and bog down my iBook hard
> drive?  Somewhat like streaming with Rendevous like Steve Jobs did a demo of
> at MWNY02.  It's a pain to have to delete every song from my iTunes library
> after I'm done listening to it in iTunes.  Like I said, There's no sense in
> using the iBook hard drive space if I don't have to.  Thanks.