Control iTunes DJ from your Mac

itunes-dj1Apple released the wonderfull iTunes Remote application, called ‘Remote’. You can control an iTunes Application running on a mac in your local network over WiFi. Also integrated into  ‘Remote’ is iTunes DJ. Everybody with an iPhone can request new songs and/or upvote songs currently in the DJ queue. Greap app.

My iTunes library is on our MacMini home server so I can play the songs in my library everywhere. But when I’m working on my laptop I don’t want to start iTunes Remote on my iPhone just to skip a song on the MacMini. And there’s the catch. I can start iTunes on my laptop and I can see the shared library on the MacMini, but I cannot control DJ. Where’s the iTunes Remote app for Mac OS X?

Fortunately: there is a cool open source app iTunes Remote Control, iTRC in short. I had already used it to control iTunes remotely for my ‘normal’ library, but it also works with iTunes DJ: it’s just another playlist that is filled automatically. And now I can skip iTunes DJ suggestions. Jay!

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Update october 6th 2009: Unfortunately iTRC does not work with the latest iTunes 9.0.1

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