Comments on: iTunes Sharing

Question: iTunes Sharing

four panels — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:41:13 -0800

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.

By: stereo

stereo — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:26:05 -0800

"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.

By: thinman

thinman — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:59:42 -0800

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.

By: special-k

special-k — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:15:38 -0800

Any tools that work in windows?

By: Aidan Kehoe

Aidan Kehoe — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:03:14 -0800

Special-K, I imagine Sysinternals' Filemon can be used for this; it's got lsof(1)'s functionality and a good deal more.

By: special-k

special-k — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:20:30 -0800

Thanks much Aidan!

By: dhruva

dhruva — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:54:35 -0800

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.