I want people to easily be able to play their music on the speakers hooked up to Ficker’s KVM switch on the main floor of 1027. The most ideal way to do this would be to hook the speakers up to an Airport Express so anyone in the house who has iTunes can see the speakers in iTunes and play their music on them wirelessly. However, an Airport Express costs about $140. It seems to me that in theory a computer could do the same thing as the Airport Express, if you had the right software. I looked for a while and could not find anything that could do it.
Ficker and I have been using Remote Desktop to access our desktops and control the music, but we don’t want to open that up to anyone in the house to use. That is very insecure. The next best option it seems to me would be to have some program running on one of the desktops that has a web interface that can connect to iTunes shared music and allows anyone in the house to control what is being played through a website. Once again, I looked for a while and could not find anything that could do it.
Maybe I’ll try again in a year or so.
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