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Remote Control of Itunes

I have a Mac Mini with an external hard drive and run itunes. I know I can control itunes on the mini with my iphone or ipod touch using the "remote" app; however, I want to control itunes full screen from an external laptop. Anyone know if that is possible?

I'm not wanting to stream the music through the laptop, just use the laptop from my listening chair to control itunes on my mini as if I were standing in front of it. I could use either an apple or a PC laptop.

Thanks, Peter
peter_s
rbstehno
1,431 posts
 
you can also just share multiple itunes from each itunes screen. just turn on sharing and look for other itunes and you will get icons for each itunes it finds. plus you can screen share. i import into my local itunes. then i screen share the itunes on my mac server, then from the servers itunes, i connect to my itunes that i just imported to, and copy the tracks to the server.

this allows copying itunes from 1 itunes library to another to sync up iphones/ipods, setup multiple zones to multiple airport express or apple tv's, etc...
peter_s OP
1,335 posts
 
Thanks so far guys. Any information on how to share screens using my Dell PC laptop as the remote would be much appreciated. Although I have an older Mac laptop (running OS 10.3.9), it is slated for other service and my preference is to use the computer I drag around for work (using Windows XP Professional). Given that the OS on my Mac Mini is 10.5.7 (that is Leopard, right?), I'm not sure whether I'll need to use Apple's Remote Desktop in conjugation with its screen sharing functionality, but that's all I know so far. Thanks, Peter
sidssp
1,077 posts
 
If you use Windows, you should turn on Leopard's Remote Management feature from System Preferences. Leopard has a full featured VNC server built in. All you need from the Windows side is a VNC client and you can remotely control your MacMini, no Apple Remote Desktop required. There are a lot of fee VNC clients available on the web. Just Google it and download a few to see which one you like best.
gb24
17 posts
 
Understand you want to use a laptop... but have you considered using iphone or itouch as a remote? (http://www.apple.com/itunes/remote/)
gmood1
1,251 posts
 
Windows has a remote desktop option that should work. I'm rusty with the XP as I use Win 7 exclusively now.

All you need is your Mini's username address for your network. Pick the option in the windows(remote desktop connection) menu to run sound from the remote computer. You can also have windows to start a certain program on connection, such as Itunes.

I was just playing around with this tonight..works like a charm between my PCs.
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