Amir’s Blog

Ever wondered who is listening to your shared music on iTunes or what song they are listening to?

You will need to download  2 very light applications

First is  a very light weight app called TCPView, you can find it here

TCPView for Windows v2.53

Second application that you need which I find very useful is

Process Explorer v11.31

Once you have downloaded above tools , it is just matter of running them here are steps you need to follow,

In my case iTunes been running for a while and my self, am not listening to any music  but ITunes tells me someone is connected to me, lets see who is listening to my music so we can go to their desk and ask them for royalty  fee

First run TCPView and look for iTunes icon to see what connections are being made by iTunes to the network  here is the snap shot of mine

The block parts shows you the network name of the computer is connected to ITunes at 4560, now look for a computer name is not yours, the highlighted line shows a computer name that is connected to me in the format of “ComputerNetworkID.NetworkName.com:PORT” where ComputerNetworkID is the name of the computer that is connected to your machine

Now to find out what song they are listening to , stop playing any music in ITunes and open Process Explorer then find the current mp3 handler by pressing Clt+F and typeing mp3 to see which mp3s are being accessed,  here is my list

well now I know who is listening to my list and what song are they listening to , time to go get them to pay up

what you could do now, (however I don’t recommend it, unless its someone you know , like the guy sitting beside you) is to send them a friendly message asking them what they think of the song

BECAREFULL IF YOU DO THIS WRONG, YOU COULD SEND A MESSAGE TO YOUR WHOLE  COMPANY , BIG NO NO

Go to start-> run and type

net send ComputerNetworkID(you got this above) “Hey what do you think of that armin’s song? “

leave me a comment let me know if you guys have a better way of doing this

Cheers guys,

Amir