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

["Joel Duggan" <joelduggan gmail com>]

> Rhythmbox ignores local services, as usually you don't want this (so as
> to not show your own share from RB or other daap server).

Not true.  I run mt-daap on my machine and RB notices and can play
from it just fine.

Mind you, I have 2 IP addresses.  Perhaps RB is ignoring one but not
the other address.

Joel D.

On 3/19/06, James Doc Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 11:21 -0800, Andisheh Mahdavi wrote:
> > Is there any way to get rhythmbox to recognize an iTunes library over a
> > ssh tunnel? I am using rhythmbox 0.9.2.
>  <snip>
> > ssh -f -L 4689:127.0.0.1:3689 -N workcomputer
> > avahi-publish-service iTunes _daap._tcp 4689
>  <snip>
> > 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?
>
> Rhythmbox ignores local services, as usually you don't want this (so as
> to not show your own share from RB or other daap server).
>
> In this case you want to do that, and I can think of three solutions:
> a) make it smarter, so that after finding a local share it does further
> checks to see whether it is really it's own share.
> b) add an option for disabling the filtering of local shares
> c) add a command to add shares by ip/port.
>
>
> (a) would probably be the best solution; but (c) would be handy too, as
> you could just add the ip/port of the remote machine.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> James "Doc" Livingston
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