When you activate your iPod Touch you will be asked whether you want to join a WiFi network. This you can find through the settings menu option on the iPod Touch if you're not asked automatically. All you have to do is to enter the password for your WiFi. (If you're using hardware ID# protection, then you can find your iPod Touch's Apple ID# through the same settings menu. You have to enter this number into your WiFi unit's Access Control pane).

But if your WiFi is password protected only, then all you need do is type that password into your Touch and you have joined. In the future it will sign-on automatically when it detects this WiFi network.

The next step is to study the following link, which gives you the information you require to set up Remote Buddy Preferences to activate AJAX on an iPhone or iPod Touch:

This is what the Preferences pane looks like - click the image to enlarge:

I have NOT checked Require Password. Note you have a few security options - you can see your own desktop in the browser (actually very handy) and you can see whatever your iSight camera is seeing on your iPod Touch or iPhone.

The Module Options are worth thinking about. When you back up DVDs to a harddisk, for instance using MacTheRipper, you will be creating VIDEO_TS files -- most of these play back smoothly with DVD-player, but if you prefer using VLC then you can tell your iPod Touch to always use VLC when playing back such files.

The highlighted area shows the URLs you can choose from when deciding on which to use for the Safari Browser that's on your iPod Touch. Use the top one (Bonjour) first as all Apple hardware is Bonjour native and perform instant handshakes using Bonjour's protocol. 

Now you have forgotten that you are dealing with an idiot here!! 😂

I'll describe what I have and then you can tell me what I need to do! I have a PowerMac G5 with all my music stored on an extra internal 500Gb HDD. I am actually about to change that to an external 1Tb HDD but I am sure the principle is the same.

The computer has a built Airport express card and connects to one of the new Airport Extreme stations which is attached to a router. The G5 is attached to a beolink PC2 and thence to the ML system in the house. There is actually another Airport Express attached to the router  as my wife's PC doesn't like the Airport Extreme!

What I want to be able to do is control the iTunes folder in other rooms on my Beolink system. I don't mind using a Beo4/5 to switch on the system and change the volume but some visual feedback is required as I have quite a lot of music!!

What hardware /software do I need? Do I need to change how the Airport Extreme is connected? 

I will get the iPhone rather than an iPod as I can use it as my work phone and it will be tax deductible..... 

I told you to aim low!! 

Believe it or not, you're actually set now.

Pick the Safari Browser button. I have the Remote Buddy bookmark set as the top bookmark, which then becomes the default launch window.

If you're on another web page, and want to use the Remote, then do as follows: Choose Bookmarks at the bottom, then choose the Bookmark with the Bonjour URL and the control panel will launch.
That's the top image I posted in this thread. What you're actually looking at is a browser window emulating a remote control surface. Quite clever. When you touch a button you launch an Activity or a Behaviour (check out the Remote Buddy manual for details on that. But all you need is installed as basic functions - you can build it out forever, if you want, but I haven't had a need to do so yet.)

When you pick Music, Remote Buddy will access the iTunes library that's on your source computer and make that available to you.
You'll see a page listing Library, with Albums, Artists, Genres, Tracks, Playlists, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, etc. In other words, the same stations and folders you have in your iTunes on the computer.

When you choose Albums > you get another list with these in alphabetical order, as text (to save download time you're not seeing covers - remember, all of this is on your source computer and is transferred to your remote).

Pick an Album or Artist, and either you'll see all the songs on the Album, or you'll see all albums by the artist you chose.
Note the small arrows < or > on either side of the window - when you touch these, you go to the next or previous function.

When you press a song, that song will immediately begin playing. If you press the NOW PLAYING button on the top left, you will get a window that looks like this.

Going from top to bottom: 

LAUNCHER takes you to the Main AJAX Remote interface - which is the one shown in the first post in this thread.
LIBRARY takes you to what you have in your iTunes folder. At first press, you'll go to the directory for what you are listening to now. You'll then find a button that says HOME, which takes you to your main iTunes Library.

Between these you see the Artist Name, Title and Album of what you're playing.

Underneath you see the track-display, showing time elapsed and remaining. You can choose to play the track many times in a loop, move to the next track in sequence or have the tracks play back at random.

Underneath this you'll see your ranking of the track and the cover art (it's quite beautiful to see the cover appear as it's being sent to your iPod Touch from your source computer).

When you tap the cover, you enable the control buttons: Play/Pause, Previous and Next. Tap again, and they disappear.

Below these you find the Volume Control. 

At the bottom, from left to right, you find the same Control Button activation, you can also rank the music.

If your source computer is in another room, and you want to stream the music to the room you're in, you have to tap the SPEAKERS button. That will open individual buttons for your Computer (source) as well as all your Airport Express units that are attached to your network - tap the one that corresponds to the unit in the room you are in, and music will be piped to that unit.

PLAYLIST has different functions. If you're listening to an Album it shows all the other tracks on that album, as well as which is active; if you're listening to an Artist(s), then it will show all other tracks by that Artist(s) on different albums.

You can also SEARCH for content by typing in text.

At the very bottom you'll see controls for the browser window - remember, you're looking at a browser! If you have several windows open, you can go back and forth between them, or launch your bookmarks (that's the open book symbol), etc.

 

I'll describe what I have and then you can tell me what I need to do! I have a PowerMac G5 with all my music stored on an extra internal 500Gb HDD. I am actually about to change that to an external 1Tb HDD but I am sure the principle is the same.

As long as you install Remote Buddy on the computer with your iTunes Library Folder you're OK. NOTE: your music can be stored elsewhere, for instance on a stand-alone harddisk, as long as your iTunes application is pointed to that harddisk with its Preferences. Open iTunes Preferences>Advanced>iTunes Music Folder Location>Change if necessary.
The actual content listing folder with all your music, cover art, etc. will still reside in your USER LIBRARY on your SOURCE computer, even when the actual music is stored elsewhere.

The computer has a built Airport express card and connects to one of the new Airport Extreme stations which is attached to a router. The G5 is attached to a beolink PC2 and thence to the ML system in the house. There is actually another Airport Express attached to the router  as my wife's PC doesn't like the Airport Extreme!

I would recommend attaching your stand alone harddisk, when you get it, to your Airport Extreme base station using an ethernet cable. Then move your iTunes music to that harddisk, and point the iTunes Preferences as stated above to that harddisk. I'm using a ReadyNAS+ server, which actually allows me to have it emulate an iTunes content server, which is then seen by all other computers on the network ... that should solve your wife's PC's problem, I think, as long as she's on the same network.

What I want to be able to do is control the iTunes folder in other rooms on my Beolink system. I don't mind using a Beo4/5 to switch on the system and change the volume but some visual feedback is required as I have quite a lot of music!!

You can control volume from the iPod Touch/iPhone (though that's not ideal for perfect playback of digital files, as it enables the Mac's soundcard, but we can cover that at a later junction.) When the irTrans/iRed guys get things sorted out you'll also be able to control hardware - but I'm doing what you're proposing doing (and with the Beolab 5000 I don't have much of a choice!) 

What hardware /software do I need? Do I need to change how the Airport Extreme is connected? 

iPhone/iPod Touch. Remote Buddy. Airport Express units for each "station" where you wish to pipe music to an audiomaster/TV.
For perfect playback you would also want to have a stand-alone DAC between your Airport Express and the AUX or TAPE IN on your audiomaster/TV.
Without a DAC all you need is an analog minijack-to-5pin DIN converter - available from LifestyleAV (though you probably already have one).
With a DAC you need a Toslink Optical "Toslink minijack-to-Toslink connection" cable; plus a connector from your DAC to the AUX or TAPE IN, I'm using an RCA-to-7pin DIN connector from Flashbacksales.co.uk.

I will get the iPhone rather than an iPod as I can use it as my work phone and it will be tax deductible...

Yes - I'm getting an iPhone the moment they go on sale in France, without the SIM-lock. A remote control with a phone, a browser, e-mail ...

WHAT CAN GO WRONG?

I've had very little down-time with my iPod Touch as a remote control.

The screen doesn't dim when you're using it as a remote, which means that you're running the battery. But you can just click the deactivate button on top left on your iPhone/iPod Touch, and reactivate it when you want to make a change. The browser window will open where you were, when you unlocked, and if you haven't enabled the Require Password function in the AJAX Remote preferences then you'll go straight to the functions you want.

Occasionally, the unit will drop the connection. If you don't regain control when using the play-button, then just relaunch the window by first selecting the bookmarks symbol, always at the bottom. I have called the bookmark Remote Buddy - when I relaunch that, it opens the control window shown in the first posting in this thread, you pick Music, and you're usually set to go again.

I've set the Mac mini to wake when prodded, but I rarely have any trouble with that not coming online immediately. On a few rare occasions iTunes has received an update warning from Apple-Central, and that has locked things until I've gone to the room where the Mac mini is and have sorted things out. I've deactivated Automatic Update notices in System Preferences>Software Updates -- but this does not stop iTunes from opening an "Update available for iTunes" window -- and this can lock things down until you sort it out.

When moving the signal from one room to another, I find that occasionally I have to hold down the button for the new room until a small Activity window opens on the iPod Touch. And to play back in many rooms I have to select that function in the Mac mini, the AJAX remote handles one room at a time (I may have missed how to activate multi-room playback).

That's it ...
 

USING iPhone or iPod Touch TO PLAYBACK MOVIES  

In Remote Buddy>Preferences>Movies (at the top right)

Activate that you want Remote Buddy to look for TS_Files on your harddisks. Point it to folders where you have such files -- when you press Movies in the AJAX Remote LAUNCHER Window (top image in this thread), if will find all these movies (takes a little time if you have a lot). You can then start playback of the movie on the screen that is attached to your source computer -- I have a DVI-to-HDMI converter cable that's sending the image to a 50" HD-Ready Plasma screen -- looks brilliant, and I can control the playback from the iPod Touch. 

You have just about persuaded me.

Just to re-iterate though! I am going to use beolink to pipe the sound through the house as it is already there. i will rely on the Wi-Fi so that the iPhone can send messages to the Mac and this will give me the same iTunes display I can get on my computer whilst in other rooms. 

Now if I can stop Leopard from freezing as often as it is at present, I'll get on and do it!!