June 5, 2003
401(ok)
Just like me, you were right ripped that Apple’s ‘improvements’ to iTunes disabled internet music sharing. Part of the wonderfulness of music sharing was being able to listen to your home-based library at work, and now that flexibility was gone. Well, it really didn’t take very long for James Speth (of iCommune fame) to slap together a little hack to get around this minor technical annoyance. Enter the beautiful simplicity of 401(ok), which redirects connections to the iTunes music sharing server over to a different port, thus getting around the local network limitation. Maybe the best thing about this hack is that it utilizes code from Apple’s own mDNSResponder project to accomplish this feat. And just to be safe, I’d go grab a copy of it now before Apple gets all pissy on James again.
Link via John Gruber at Daring Fireball
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