netTunes - 2.3.1

This is the worst shareware I have ever tried, if you do not purchase the software it will screw up your connection with Airport Express. Do not download unless you plan to buy. The default shuts off your connection every 30 minutes (so it says) it now turns off my connection every 5 minutes. I had to uninstall and then reboot (believe it or not) for my itunes to work again with my airport express.

Very angry at this developer.

I like it. It works for me. Playing off a pismo G3 powerbook MP3 server to Aiport Espress. I control it from all 4 house computers - no problems.

Very ingenious! I always wanted to remotely control iTunes running on my stereo's Mac mini (which serves up our music, both for SLIMP3 and AirTunes). I now can control it from everywhere in the house - from my workdesk, or my Laptop on the terasse (yeah, we have an outside airport extreme installation).

netTunes provides a very nice 'vnc-like' updating control interface showing you the 'real' iTunes that is controlled remotely. A small issue is that when a screen saver is active, you will initially see this screensaver instead of the iTunes interface.

The manual could be a bit more elaborate when using the software with a firewall, as the software goes into the 'spinning pizza of death' when the server's port (on the server) is blocked. OK, actually, the manual could be a little bit more elaborate, period.

Other than that it runs very nicely. I recommend it for everone with more than one Mac, and a central music server based (partly) on iTunes.

Christian

While iTunes does (now) have 'playlist sharing', which allows you to actually play the music on another machine locally (something another product of ours -- launchTunes -- helps with), it doesn't allow you to control iTunes itself on the remote machine.

If the remote machine is hooked to your stereo directly, has its own speakers, or is broadcasting over AirPort Express, netTunes will let you control its interface remotely.

So, you can easily sleep your local machine and still enjoy the music that plays from the server -- and still fully control it, using iTunes' own interface, when you need to.

Hope that helps to explain a bit more. Give it a try -- the demo is fully functional for 30 minutes at a time (just restart the server preference pane to get another 30 minutes), so you can try all of netTunes' features and see if you like it.

Very easy to set up and Works perfect from the start with Panther 10.3.4 and iTunes 4.5 on a Dual 1.25 G4 and older Lombard G3 PowerBook. All shareware should be this good. Best iTunes Remote.