Computer Question
 

I am desiging a music server on my home computer and would like to add software to my laptop so that when I am in the air I have my own IFE. So I want to have software such as Real Audio that can control the playlist to do it AVOD and another portion of the software to run different music channels to my laptop.

So what would you suggest? What is the internet speed that I can attain in the air? Will my software buffer a lot due to the slow speed?

Do you have ideas of how to setup a music server and have remote listening stations so that I can access it via a ftp or password controll so only friends and i can listen to it so the bandwith wont be lost?

Thanks

What sort of connection do you intend to use while in the air?

I was wondering that myself.

I just load up my hard drive with mp3's before I fly.

iTunes will do this with personal music sharing. Music is not actually transferred to the client computer; it's streamed.

It will do it over a wireless rendezvous network or for all machines within a subnet.

This is great for work. I have no less than 20-30 iTunes libraries available to listen to throughout the day.

You can set a password if desired, so that only users with permission can access your music library.

The one caveat is that I believe rendezvous, while an open source technology, is primarily used by Macs at the moment. I don't think windows systems would be able to wirelessly connect to another user's iTunes music library via Rendezvous. There may be other options, though.

Use itunes on the PCs. Then view the shared libraries from the other PCs.

-David