Create Your Own Home Networks

Chapter 4. Project 3: Creating a Network Jukebox

This chapter looks at networking as it relates to entertainment—specifically, music. You will see what it takes to create a collection of music on the various computers in your home network and then learn how to access that music from any computer.

More About Itunes

iTunes is software that lets you organize and listen to your music and other audio files on your computer, using the audio hardware in your computer. The following are some of the things you can do with iTunes:

• Listen to CDs—Listening to music with iTunes is as easy as putting a CD into your computer and clicking Play. When you insert a CD, iTunes starts, and the CD appears in the Source list.

• Add music from CDs or from the Internet to your ...