Itunes Server

[ryan93]

Hey

I have a reasonably large music collection about 10,000 songs
I have it mostly added on VMC although some is in M4a format, but that is not the issue. At the moment i have itunes running constantly in the background and i am accessing the music through the sharing section of itunes on other computers around the house. This works reasonably well, although itunes is reasonably resource hungry and having the whole program just running in the background seems a bit stupid. So i was wondering whether there is a small appliaction or something similar so i can have the itunes sharing capabilites but not the whole itunes app that is not needed and is just chewing up resources. Effectively what i want is an Itunes "Server" application.

Does anyone one know of anything like this or similar?

Thanks in advance

Ryan

[dgaust]

You could try this

[KingHilary]

What about using TVersity?

It is free. It allows you to share media around your networked devices.

I quote from their FAQ page.

What devices are supported by the TVersity Media Server?
TVersity is..... versatile media server and ...... is truly universal in the range of devices it supports. TVersity can serve media to:

Devices supporting the UPnP AV / DLNA standard (which is the de-facto standard for connecitivity between devices in the digital home). This includes devices like networked TVs, DVDs, Stereo Receivers, Digital Media Adapaters/Receivers, Mobile Phones, Satellite and Cable set-top-boxes and more.
Devices with a web browser (XHTML-MP or WAP 2.0) and media streaming or downloading capabilities like Mobile Phones, PDAs, the Sony PSP, and more.
Devices with an RSS reader and media streaming or downloading capabilities like the Sony PSP, iTunes/iPod and more.

It seems to work for me. Does depend on the computer that houses this media server to actually be on.... but I don't see getting around that seeing as that is where my music is stored.

I use TVersity to stream video or music to the bedroom. For the rest of the house I use SONOS for music.


KH

[badapple]

Have a look at the Thecus YesBox:

http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=1&pid=1

Has an inbuilt iTunes server and can be set up in RAID 1 so you won't have to rip 10,000 tracks if a disk fails on you.

[ryan93]

Cheers for the replys

I have looked into each of these and they seem alright but still don't do what i really want.

thanks anyways

Ryan

[psyklops]

Have a look at Firefly media server. It's opensource/free and runs as a service under Windows.

I've had this up and running on my linux box and works nicely.

I'm looking at a plugin for MCE or Windows Media Player to search for and find itunes/DAAP shares. Any ideas?

[ryan93]

Hey psyklops

Thanks sooo much for suggesting this. Although under windows it is still in beta, this is great exactly what i wanted works perfectly.

Thanks again

Ryan