TiVo’s Home Media Option, previously a $99 upgrade, is now free for all TiVo Series 2 owners. Once you have connected your TiVo to your network, you’ll have access to web-based scheduling, multi-room viewing, music streaming, and photo browsing. A downloadable PDF guide describes these features in greater detail.

While being able to remotely schedule programs via TiVo Central Online is a great feature, most Mac folks will be more interested in serving up their iTunes music and iPhoto pictures into their living room via the easy-to-use TiVo interface and remote. So hurry up and order TiVo’s recommended USB networking adapters — the wired Linksys USB100TX or the wireless Linksys WUSB11 — and then start streaming music and browsing photos from your Mac-based media server via the TiVo Desktop software.

Posted at 3:38 PM PDT with these tags: music

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Volker Weber notes the existence of a UNIX-based music server called daapd that streams files via the same DAAP protocol used by iTunes. The key advantage to using daapd is the ability to both stream and download tracks from locations outside of the local subnet.

As you may recall, iTunes 4.0.1 removed the ability to stream music from another machine running iTunes unless both machines are the same subnet. So if you want to listen to your own collection of music at home from a remote location, stick with iTunes 4.0.0 or use daapd in conjunction with cross-platform DAAP clients such as iSlurp or One2OhMyGod. The latter clients also allow you to download tracks, which isn’t supported even by iTunes 4.0.0.

Posted at 12:00 AM PDT with these tags: music

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Instructions for using the $35 PHP-based music streaming tool Andromeda in conjunction with OS X were recently published, which includes documentation for streaming tracks purchased from the iTunes Music Store. This feat may also be possible using Netjuke, a free and open source tool with similar features.

Posted at 3:14 PM PDT with these tags: music, web

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