A cool feature in iTunes is the ability to share your entire music library over the network, but few people know that the exact same thing is built into Fedora, and you can activate it in 1 minute. iTunes is using a protocol called DAAP (Digital Audio Access Protocol) for that, which is also available as a standard plugin for Rhythmbox.
To activate music sharing:
- Open the right ports on your firewall: 3689 TCP and 5353 UDP
- Activate the avahi-daemon service
- Activate and configure the DAAP plugin in Rhythmbox
Done, now your music is shared across your network, and you can even see it in iTunes.
Note also that:
- Ampache allow to share with a web interface & stream music http://ampache.org/. It can be plays with iTunes.
- without Rythmbox you can directly install a free DAAP server http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/
I didn’t find a way to put the music shared via DAAP on an iPod ! If someone knows how to do it …
Bruno
“Open the right ports on your firewall: 3689 TCP and 5353 UDP”
I find Fedora’s firewall setup crippling for usability of almost any cool networked features. I understand the desire to lock things up for people’s own good, especially by default. However, there is no feedback for users when the firewall has blocked applications from communicating. Instead, the features just silently fail or don’t work.
Ah well.