Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Listening to remote iTunes shares

[5uj34k502 sneakemail com]

Hi

Thanks for your reply. As I said in my original post, when I took the laptop to work (i.e., placed it on the same subnet as my mac), rhythmbox worked perfectly. It's the remote functionality I am trying to achieve here.

Just in case you are wondering, the dance using 3689->4689->3689 has to do with the fact that iTunes won't connect directly to port 3689 on a remote machine. It has to be fooled into thinking it is connecting to the local subnet.

Incidentally, ourtunes manages to get this working---so it IS possible. I just want to do it with our good old rhythmbox (because then I can play AAC files using the gstreamer plugin---the playback functionality on ourtunes is minimal).


On Sun, 2006-19-03 at 12:06 -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
Can you set up a network without the use of ssh as a way to test whether
> rhythmbox can talk to Rendezvous directly?  I would start with that.
> 
> sri
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 11:21 -0800, ........ ....... wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  
> > Is there any way to get rhythmbox to recognize an iTunes library over a
> > ssh tunnel? I am using rhythmbox 0.9.2.
> >  
> > I have a PowerMac at work serving my CD collection via iTunes. At home I
> > have an eMac (desktop) and a Linux laptop.
> >  
> > I can use my eMac at home to listen to my iTunes collection that sits at
> > work. It involves 1) a ssh tunnel mapping office port 3689 to home port
> > 4689, and 2) a program called Network (formerly Rendezvous) Beacon,
> > which maps home port 4689 to home port 3689 using daap.
> >  
> > When I try doing the same using avahi, I can't get it to work. First of
> > all, I can confirm that when I take the laptop to work, it can discover
> > the iTunes service and I can listen to the music hosted on my mac using
> > rhythmbox on my laptop. So the sharing works perfectly there (thanks!)
> >  
> > Now, when I use my laptop to try the same port-mapping trick (as for my
> > eMac) at home, it doesn't work. Here is what I do
> > 
> > ssh -f -L 4689:127.0.0.1:3689 -N workcomputer
> > avahi-publish-service iTunes _daap._tcp 4689
> > 
> > This didn't work---nothing comes up on rhythmbox. Then I tried
> > 
> > ssh -f -L 3689:127.0.0.1:4689 -N 127.0.0.1
> > 
> > This didn't make rhythmbox recognize it either. I asked the avahi folks
> > about this and they said that rhythmbox might be filtering out shares on
> > the localhost. If so, is there a workaround that allows me to listen to
> > my iTunes music sitting at work from a remote location?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks very much, 
> >  
> > Pausanias
> > 
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