http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/13/homemade_dotmac.html

Also for OSX Client

MALTX (Discontinued) http://www.macamplite.com/ is another solution, but needs also another broadcaster like live365

ICE/ShoutCast Tutorial http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/1065.html

The downside with all the iTunes Sharing/QT Broadcaster/MP3 Sushi-type solutions is that they dump the mp3 file to the network as-is. Like the iTunes 4.0 sharers discovered, serving 160kbps+ songs results in buffering problems very quickly for everyone connected. Keeping a second set of mp3s re-encoded at a lower rate just for streaming isn’t practical.

With Audion, you can resample on the fly to whatever rate you like to feed the SHOUTcast server. I do 56k mono which results in an acceptable-quality stream that can support six listeners reliably over my cable modem. Audion doesn’t handle large Libraries/playlists anywhere near as smoothly as iTunes does, but for streaming it can’t be beat!

Another simpler possibility that I am going to look into is to dynamically update the icecast/playlist with whatever iTunes is currently playing, however I’m not sure that either of icecast/shoutcast can/will regularly check the playlist for changes without restarting them…

Incidentally MP3 Sushi does now reencode the MP3s but it doesn’t allow ‘input’ from iTunes (what I’m after) and simply creates a playlist from a specified folders (or the web if using the jukebox).

Incidentally the easiest method if you want to have playback control at the other end, is to simply turn file sharing on, connect to your home mac from the office mac and add the mp3 files to its iTunes libary will, although this will be slow – you may find it quicker to simply copy your library over, in which case you either need to mount your entire hard drive on the office mac or better if your music is on a seperate partition or hard drive just mount that. Admittedly you need to make sure you have enough bandwidth between the two macs to accommodate file access and trasnfer of the larger bitrate MP3 you have between the two machines…

I found this article (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/archives/000016.php) which shows how you can use Audio Hijack Pro to stream the output from iTunes, which is exactly what I am after as I simply want to stream from my wireless powerbook to my HiFi -via a PowerMac with an optical connection, which means I can keep control of what I’m listening to from iTunes on my PowerBook (I used to use Audion but I prefer iTunes for managing a 1200+ album library).

Another simpler possibility is to dynamically update the icecast/shoutcast playlist with whatever iTunes is currently playing… could be ideal. I shall loook into adding this feature to my iTunes cover file viewer app (OnDeck http://verseguru.com/?applications/ondeck).

Incidentally MP3 Sushi does now reencode the MP3s but it doesn’t allow ‘input’ but simply creates a playlist from specified folders (in radio mode).

Incidentally the easiest method if you want to have playback control at the other end, is to simply turn file sharing on, connect to your home mac from the office mac and add the mp3 files to its iTunes libary will, although this will be slow – you may find it quicker to simply copy your library over, in which case you either need to mount your entire hard drive on the office mac or better if your music is on a seperate partition or hard drive just mount that. Admittedly you need to make sure you have enough bandwidth between the two macs to accommodate file access and trasnfer of the larger bitrate MP3 you have between the two machines…