What's playing on Airtunes?

October 10, 2007 1:06 PM

What's playing on Airtunes? At my office, anyone can play music through a little Airport Express box we've got hooked up to a stereo. Is there any way to monitor what's being played (title & track info) and who's playing it? I want to know who to yell at about this god awful hair metal that's disturbing me as I type this . . .

We're all running iTunes, obviously, but users are on both Windows and OS X platforms. If there's no off the shelf solution available, what would be involved in rolling some kind of web-based (intranet?) solution?

posted by aladfar to computers & internet (4 comments total)

I'm sure the AE keeps some sort of log file, you could probably access with the Admin tool. I don't have mine in front of me to check though.
posted by mphuie at 3:33 PM on October 10, 2007

The AE keeps no such log file, unfortunately. It doesn't see the data as a file, anyway, just an audio stream.
posted by pmbuko at 3:40 PM on October 10, 2007

What pmbuko said. It advertises a service on the network which iTunes connects to for audio transmission only.

I suggest wandering around your office looking for people who are enjoying the music, and beating them with heavy objects.
posted by blacklite at 10:00 PM on October 10, 2007

Search for the lyrics.
posted by codger at 9:36 PM on October 14, 2007