(You can’t, however, play the contents of these libraries through the mini’s speaker connection using the Remote application. And, if you have other Macs in the house, you can control their iTunes libraries as well. Just pair the iPhone or iPod touch with the mini’s copy of iTunes, and you can control playback of audiobooks, music, music videos, TV shows, movies, and podcasts. Fortunately a variety of inexpensive iPhone and iPod touch applications (and the accompanying Mac-based server apps required by some of them) do.Īpple’s free Remote ( ) application is a great way to play media stored in the mini’s iTunes library. And Apple’s remote-cute as a button though it may be-can’t handle keyboard and mouse-like chores.
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While a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse would certainly get the job done, such input devices are on the bulky side.
In the past I might have used Apple’s remote control or configured my $250 Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote to mimic the Apple remote’s functions, but some of today’s media applications require keyboard input and a measure of mousing. We now turn to one of the most important elements of any AV system-controlling it all from the couch.Ī Mac mini does a far better impression of an integrated AV device when it’s not tethered to a keyboard and mouse.
In the first three parts of my ongoing venture to make a Mac mini a powerful component of my AV empire we’ve covered upgrading the Mac, connecting it to a typical AV system, and configuring it to access local and streaming media.
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