Hi, is it possilbe to have home sharing enabled without loading itunes?

Hi, I quite like the homesharing, but is it possilbe for me to home share my music without loading itunes. As I use winamp for playing my music on my desktop computer and don't really like itunes loaded as well, i.e. is there a mini version of itunes I can use that doesn't appear in the task bar? I'd like a service to run at my computer start up that just runs for homesharing also as I find itunes clunky to use (sorry macheads). I hope this question makes sense.

There is some logic to what you say but it looks unlikely Apple will do this. The nearest you can get to what you want is to run 'Firefly' in the background.
Active support for Firefly has long been discontinued. The same software however is still being used on various NAS boxes and has been tweaked on those to still work. You can try downloading a copy for Windows from here http://soundbridge.roku.com/support/dwnld_firefly.php
The version available at the above location may or may not work with iTunes clients still, it however will definitately not work with iOS or Apple TV devices.
There is a successor called forked-daapd but this is only available for Linux, it does however work with iOS and Apple TV devices.

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