Airtunes with multiple computers

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Marlow

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I'm contemplating buying an Airport Express for streaming music (amongst other things) and was wondering how it works with more than one computer. For example, at my bar I was thinking of using it to stream music from my laptop behind the bar to the DJ booth when I work alone. What happens when a costumer comes in with their laptop and plays music on their itunes??? Or a guest in my house etc?

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You can enabled the password protection for sharing in iTunes.
 
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Marlow said:
I'm contemplating buying an Airport Express for streaming music (amongst other things) and was wondering how it works with more than one computer. For example, at my bar I was thinking of using it to stream music from my laptop behind the bar to the DJ booth when I work alone. What happens when a costumer comes in with their laptop and plays music on their itunes??? Or a guest in my house etc?

When a computer joins a wireless network with an Airport Express with AirTunes enabled, on the bottom right corner of iTunes appears a dropdown box allowing you to choose the Computer, or <name of AirTunes> names of available places to stream music. You have to actually make the selection to play in iTunes, but you can password it in the Base Station Admin Utility to prevent anyone else from using it. AND you cannot stream to an Airport Express when it is in use by another computer.

Good luck, it's a great idea and the sound quality is excellent IMO.
 

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