Please Don’t Stop the Music

Ok, so corny title. So while planning out the future apartment Jason and I are going to share this January in Ottawa, I was curious how we’d play music. There’s a couple ways to do this. We’ll have 3 computers, each with their own seperate library.

1. Dump all the files together in one location. Requires lots of space, and moving around.
2. Set up iTunes on each computer, and use that. Still requires somebody to get up to change the song.
3. Come up with another solution.

If you know me, you know which decision I went for. I’m deciding to write an app that’ll run on all 3 computers, providing files from each computer to it’s peers, and allowing each computer to play music.

Here’s the catch though: I want to be able to remotely control each computer’s speakers and playlist. I want to say, start playing some music on the big rig, and control it from different computers. I also want to be able to listen to any song on the network on my computer, and Jason to be able to do the same using another computer. Currently, I don’t know of such a “distributed music system”, but if you know of one, hook me up.

Oh, I run linux, and Jason’s 2 computers run OSX (I think one’s PPC, and the other’s an Intel).