tracking what files iTunes is sharing?

[ethan666]

Is there any software out there to track which of your iTunes songs are being streamed by others on your network? Here at work there are 10-15 people sharing iTunes music, and it would be cool to keep track of which songs are most popular...

just wonderin'...

[darndog]

You can take a snapshot by opening a terminal and typing:
lsof | grep Music

(this assumes that even if you have moved or made a second iTunes Library, it still has a folder named 'Music' in its path.

If anyone else has another way or some ideas I would be interested in reading them, seems odd that iTunes does not keep a track access list?

dD

[laurencewilks]

Try AppleScript see:

http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/

for more info.

L

/edit: fix url -mt

[mervTormel]

Quote: Originally posted by darndog You can take a snapshot by opening a terminal and typing: lsof | grep Music

lsof can be quite expensive to run on a rig with a lot of apps/files open. to speed it up a bit, try scripting the following:

# get itunes pid to feed to lsof

$ itunesPID=`ps wwax | grep -i "[i]tunes" | cut -c-5`

# get itunes files open, grep for string in your music collection, trim

$ lsof -p $itunesPID | grep -i music | colrm 1 58 | cut -d/ -f6-99

Rock/Neil Young/Decade/For The Turnstiles

tune the colrm and cut to your specific specs

[DougAdams]

What Are People Listening 2? is an AppleScript that does this.