"Sharing" someone's wireless network = sharing their music too?

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I moved into a new place recently and I've been using the neighbor's wireless internet signal. Tonight, for a few hours, someone's iTunes library showed up in my iTunes and then disappeared later. What's the deal with that?

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think you should check them out, it'll be worth the $8.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

i've been in coffeeshops where there's a shared wireless signal and someone's itunes will show up. I've been curious about accessing their music, but I don't think it's posssible. I could be wrong.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

unfortunately you can't take the music from their itunes, but you can listen to it.

also, if you're embarrassed of your 10 gig counting crows collection, you can turn the sharing feature off

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

*cough*myTunes*cough*

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

*cough* This program will most likely only work on Windows XP (and probably Windows 2000). No mac version exists and I'm not making one, so stop asking. *cough*

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's always amusing to see what kind of absolute crap other people in the coffeeshop have in their iTunes library. There seems to be a direct correlation between people who are too stupid to turn the sharing feature off and bad taste in music.

― John Hunter, Thursday, 3 November 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

Cough?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gettunes/

Anyway, the intention is that you can check out whatever music anyone near you has shared, try to figure out who they are, and have some sort of Apple-created meeting experience where you bond over espresso, bleached oak wood tables, and baguettes. But if you are smart, you can steal their music while chatting them up!

― coffeeshop noodler (mike h.), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, if you're sitting in Starbucks, it's a direct correlation between their (and your) taste and the location.

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

omg this is scary

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I was tempted to see if I could take a song, retitle it with some sort of explanation and greeting like "Hey, I live across the street and I was checking out your music (and you have really predictable taste, etc.)" and drop it in their folder.

They really didn't have much bad music actually, it was just sort of your run-of-the-mill urban/hipster/indie stuff (Antony and the Johnsons, BRMC, James Brown, Daft Punk, etc.)

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

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