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Reach local iTunes library over the net
Authored by: bmishkin on Tue, Sep 1 2009 at 5:29AM PDT

Mobileme DNS no longer works. If you know the remote machine IP, this script is working for me. Fill in your REMOTE_ITUNES_IP.

#!/bin/bash 

ssh -gNf -L 3690:localhost:3689 REMOTE_ITUNES_IP
dns-sd -R "remote_itunes" _daap._tcp. local 3690 localhost 127.0.0.1 &