Mac|Life - June 2009

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HOW TO DO ANYTHING ON YOUR MAC

Share iTunes

Music Across Networks Keep all your songs with you, all the time, by streaming music from your home Mac to another machine, or even to your iPhone.

My main work machine is a MacBook Pro with a 160GB hard drive, but it’s owned by the company, so I can’t—nor do I want to—fill the whole thing up with my own i Tunes music. I’ve got a few gigs on there, but listening day in and day out (my headphones are like loyal, cherished friends), it’s easy to get tired of the relatively small selection.

Luckily, Simplify Media makes it easy to share my home library with my laptop—and even my iPhone—over the Internet. I’ll show you how to set it up, so you never have to be without access to Xcc your Weird Al albums ever again. BY SUSIE OCHS

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WHAT YOU NEED

> Simplify Media (free, www.simplifymedia.com)

> An i Tunes library you want to share, housed on a computer with a persistent Internet connection

> Optional: Simplify Media app for the iPhone or iPod touch ($3.99 in the App Store)

I would never keep 35 albums (!) of Phish on my laptop. But “HomeMac” shows up as a shared library on my work network, thanks to Simplify Media on both my home Mac and my work laptop.

1Get It Start at the Mac with the big i Tunes library that you want to share. Download the Simplify Media app from www.simplifymedia .com. It requires Mac OS 10. 5 (Leopard) if you’re running i Tunes 7 or later, which you probably are—the current version at this writing is i Tunes 8. 1. Install it in the normal fashion.