![]() ![]() iOS 8 or later and OS X Yosemite or later are required to set up or join a Family Sharing group and are recommended for full functionality. Music, movies, TV shows, and books can be downloaded on up to 10 devices per account, five of which can be computers. I couldn't find anything that solves this particular problem. Family Sharing requires a personal Apple ID signed in to iCloud and iTunes. Just get a remote desktop on the Mac and click away. There's also Remote for iTunes which also relies on DCAP and costs $5.įor control from a non-Mac machine your best bet is probably still VNC. Requires home sharing be turned on in iTunes - so you might be out of luck there if you can't run the latest iTunes on your older iMac.įor an Android device there's TunesRemote (which uses the home sharing protocol, so it requires a newer iTunes installation). Both of those are free.įor control from an iPhone Apple has it's own iTunes Remote you can download from the iOS App Store for free. There's also the simpler iTunes Remote Control which works over Bonjour IIRC - not quite as fancy, but it gets the job done. It uses a daemon approach to controlling iTunes so it works with older, non-home sharing capable, iTunes installations. Even streams the cover art and playlist back to the remote app. Very cool little program that lets you remote control iTunes on another Mac from your current Mac. Not sure you can get to an iTunes version that supports DACP if your highest OS level is 10.4.11.įor control from another Mac I highly recommend TuneConnect. ![]() I think the trouble you're going to run in to is that much of the remote control software for iTunes out there, especially for the smartphone market, requires an iTunes version that support Digital Audio Control Protocol (DACP, aka "Home Sharing"). ![]()
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