I had an old stereo receiver that I wanted to hook up in my basement, but I didn't want to pony up the cash for a new CD player so I improvised. I mounted two shelves on the wall; the top shelf holds my receiver, the second shelf has room for my PowerBook. I bought a "mini jack to RCA" adapter to hook up my PowerBook from the headphone jack to the receiver and play MP3s with iTunes. Easy enough. However, I didn't want to use all my drive space on my Powerbook for MP3s, so I installed an MP3 server, gnumpd, on my Linux Box located on the second floor and access it over my Airport network.

Gnump3d has a nice web interface to select playlists, songs, etc. To make things super easy to find the web server, I created a shell script on my Linux box to register the server with Rendezvous. I used JRendezvous and had the following lines in the shell script:

  java -jar jrendezvous.jar -rs MyTunes _http._tcp local. 8887 index.html

Now all I have to do is launch Safari, open the Rendezvous Tab, and my MP3 server shows up there as MyTunes, ready to go. Hope the rumors of the next iTunes having Rendezvous support are true so I can eliminate the browser all together.