[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“The DAAP arms race continues. With iTunes 10, Apple
has once again broken compatibility with third party DAAP servers
— so projects like VortexBox that stream to iTunes have
required a refresh. With the 1.5 release, VortexBox is back in the
game and ready to play ball with iTunes — at least until the
next update.“What is VortexBox? It’s a Fedora-based, single-purpose
distribution that turns a PC or virtual machine into a music server
or jukebox. Basically, you install VortexBox onto a machine and it
will serve up your media to networked media players like iTunes,
Sonos, an XBox 360, PS3, or streamed directly to other OSes.“Using VortexBox
“Installing VortexBox is just a matter of slapping the CD into a
drive and following the instructions. It also has a special install
for VMware, which is what I used to test it out. It doesn’t take
more than 20 minutes to get the system up and running.”