iTunes everywhere: Best products for accessing iTunes in the home
July 30th, 2008 by John Falcone
While the software has gotten rather bloated and unwieldy in recent years, Apple's iTunes remains the de facto standard for Windows and Mac users to organise their digital music collections. iTunes lets you sync with your iPod or iPhone, and it's also preconfigured to stream music (plus podcasts and videos) over your home network — if you've got the right hardware. Here are some top products that'll do the trick:
Apple AirPort Express: This wireless router/network access point has the unique ability to connect to speakers or stereo systems, allowing you to send your iTunes audio to other rooms in the house.
Apple TV: Access any of the iTunes media from your computer on your television.
Apple iPhone: Downloading the free Remote application turns your iPhone into a remote control, providing full access to the iTunes library on any networked computer or Apple TV.
Apple iPod Touch: The Touch offers the same remote functionality as the iPhone, but without any of the pesky telco service charges.
Logitech Squeezebox Duet: This non-Apple product won't work with DRM-encoded songs purchased from the iTunes Store, but it'll play pretty much any other audio file on your hard drive — as well as access a whole panoply of non-Apple online music sources.
I bought to av cable and my ipod classic plays movies on my tv but not my iPod touch! the videos play for like one second and then backs out to the videos menu. Do i really have to buy the cable directly from Apple? How am I having problems with the newer ipod rather than this old 5th generation ipod! Suggestions anyone? 
scynn
August 6th, 2008 at 8:42am
I'm confused. The article is supposed to be about devices that iTunes can streat to. (and it's also preconfigured to stream music... over your home network — if you've got the right hardware. Here are some top products that'll do the trick:") What, exactly, does the iPhone / iPod Touch remote app have to do with streaming? As far as I know, it is simply as the name implies: a Remote Control. This article could mislead people into assuming that the Remote.app will allow streaming of the iTunes Library to the iPhone when that is not actually true, is it? Also, it doesn't appear that the squeezebox will actually allow streaming from iTunes. The squeezecenter software needs to be installed and it will simply read the iTunes Library xml file to determine where your music is stored and then index that into its own library. This is not iTunes streaming, but a convenient check-box that substitutes for manually pointing the squeezebox software to your music folder.
Brad
December 16th, 2008 at 12:56pm
Check out SuperSync to access your iTunes library from anywhere. SuperSync lets you merge any two libraries.. plus access (upload, download and play) music over any network... http://supersync.com/