Outcast lets your serve your iTunes library over HTTP, and push tracks you’re playing to anyone else over the web via a web-based iTunes GUI.
To share your library with others, you need to expose your iTunes library over HTTP. To do this, check out the project from the repo and run the following:
sudo gem install hoe oyster sinatra rake install_gem
Then, cd into your iTunes directory (the one containing iTunes Music Library.xml) and run:
outcast
This exposes a web service that allows your library to be accessed from your IP on port 8166.
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Copyright © 2009 James Coglan
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