(My question is about iTunes, specifically, but the following is true for any application that ouputs audio -- including browser pages with audio)
I work out of a home office, spending a good part of the day on a company laptop with crappy speakers. I often like to listen to music on my personal PC via iTunes, in the same room. I'd like to use remote desktop to control iTunes so that the output stays on my PC -- with some decent speakers. What I've noticed is the following:
* If iTunes is already started on the PC, before I remote desktop in, then iTunes will output to the PC's attached speakers -- which is what I want.
* But if I launch iTunes after I remote desktop in, it will output audio to my crappy laptop speakers.
* If iTunes is already running when I remote in, and thus piping output to the PC speakers, but I close and re-open iTunes, it will output to my laptop.
Is there any way to control this behavior in Remote Desktop, so that iTunes always uses the PC speakers? I've seen a few "itunes remote" apps that may help, but a lot of them don't allow full control (just pause, next track, etc), and if I don't have to install some homebrew app I'd prefer not to.
TIA.
I work out of a home office, spending a good part of the day on a company laptop with crappy speakers. I often like to listen to music on my personal PC via iTunes, in the same room. I'd like to use remote desktop to control iTunes so that the output stays on my PC -- with some decent speakers. What I've noticed is the following:
* If iTunes is already started on the PC, before I remote desktop in, then iTunes will output to the PC's attached speakers -- which is what I want.
* But if I launch iTunes after I remote desktop in, it will output audio to my crappy laptop speakers.
* If iTunes is already running when I remote in, and thus piping output to the PC speakers, but I close and re-open iTunes, it will output to my laptop.
Is there any way to control this behavior in Remote Desktop, so that iTunes always uses the PC speakers? I've seen a few "itunes remote" apps that may help, but a lot of them don't allow full control (just pause, next track, etc), and if I don't have to install some homebrew app I'd prefer not to.
TIA.
