Talk:ITunes

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"Music can be played, cataloged and even shared on local area networks."

What does the latter mean? Does this mean DRM files are legally shared on a LAN with which DRM isn't effective? --dpi

Apparently that's allowed in iTunes. Webfork

iTunes 4 has a Music Sharing feature that uses Rendezvous to give you remote streaming access to your personal music library from any room in your house. Let’s say, for instance, that you have thousands of AAC and MP3 music files stored on a Mac or Windows computer in your home office. The iTunes software works so smoothly on both platforms that you can share music with any combination of Macs and Windows PCs on a local area network — regardless of whether you’re running iTunes off a Mac or PC. And you won’t have to manually configure anything, either. (source)

Hmmm. So there's no username/password authentication? How does it know the computer in the LAN is authorized to play that file? We could establish a VPN between both our WAN sides, and our LANs and our IP addresses appear to be "Local", too. -- dpi

This is true. I've had some success with Foldershare but that doesn't allow you to play files over the network like iTunes - you have to actually select and download them. So the iTunes plan might be a lot better. Webfork

Interesting. Speaking of The Devil... i fixed the link Playfair to FairPlay since that's what it is called not. QTFairUse is "deprecated" and AFAIK Dead. However, Jon reports on his blog VLC has support. - dpi

Yes, I messed up on the Fairplay notice but fixed it just now. Webfork

Ah okay. Interesting project. Are Sourceforge statistics fucked up? They claim both the 0.1 and the 0.2 version were never download.. - dpi

I try to avoid posting things I haven't directly interacted with, where possible, as in this case: I've personally downloaded and used it successfully, so I'm going to say yes, their stats are screwy. Webfork