iTunes Sharing

December 2, 2006 3:41 PM

Is there a way to know what songs iTunes is sharing when other users are connected? Like what specific shared songs the connected users listening are to.
posted by four panels to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Best answer: "The iTunes Connection Monitor widget allows you to see who is connected to your iTunes shared library and which songs are being listenned to." It uses lsof and is flaky.

If you want real apache-style logs, get Firefly, aka mt-daapd. In my experience, it runs just fine on Mac OS X.
posted by stereo at 4:26 PM on December 2, 2006

Best answer: If you are using a Mac, in Terminal enter "lsof | grep mp3" (without the quotation marks). I think that is the command iTunes Connection Monitor uses. As stereo says, the results are only so-so.
posted by thinman at 4:59 PM on December 2, 2006

Any tools that work in windows?
posted by special-k at 12:15 AM on December 3, 2006

Special-K, I imagine Sysinternals' Filemon can be used for this; it’s got lsof(1)’s functionality and a good deal more.
posted by Aidan Kehoe at 4:03 AM on December 3, 2006

Thanks much Aidan!
posted by special-k at 12:20 PM on December 4, 2006

That widget is flaky. I use Itunes monitor. You can also use the built in Activity Monitor> Select Itunes> Click on inspect>Click on open files and ports and scroll all the way down.
posted by dhruva at 6:54 PM on December 5, 2006