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Home sharing big iTunes lib
I have 10,000 plus songs, videos, movies and stuff in my iTunes lib and I want to share it around my house. Which of these do you will work?
a) Put it all up on firefly with that being the master copy. All Mac's and other devices stream off of it. No one Mac has the master copy. It would all be backed up with NAS RAID (plus off site) From my first look at Firefly (after the recent fix), it seems way to primitive to organize 10,000 items. I'd want all the play count stuff, rating, smart play lists and so on. Did I miss something?
b) Use Apple home sharing + TimeMachine. Haven't tried this but it seems like it would work, except that there would be one main Mac that would have to be turned on for the streaming. Would probably get the functionality to keep it all organized.
c) Put all the files up on the ReadyNAS and share the files between the Macs. There wouldn't really be streaming. I've kind of done this with some success today, but it is a bit messy and iTunes seems to get grumpy about writing to a share rather than a local disk.
d) Wait until Apple builds a proper DMA box and takes over TV in a massive way...
Thoughts?
LL
a) Put it all up on firefly with that being the master copy. All Mac's and other devices stream off of it. No one Mac has the master copy. It would all be backed up with NAS RAID (plus off site) From my first look at Firefly (after the recent fix), it seems way to primitive to organize 10,000 items. I'd want all the play count stuff, rating, smart play lists and so on. Did I miss something?
b) Use Apple home sharing + TimeMachine. Haven't tried this but it seems like it would work, except that there would be one main Mac that would have to be turned on for the streaming. Would probably get the functionality to keep it all organized.
c) Put all the files up on the ReadyNAS and share the files between the Macs. There wouldn't really be streaming. I've kind of done this with some success today, but it is a bit messy and iTunes seems to get grumpy about writing to a share rather than a local disk.
d) Wait until Apple builds a proper DMA box and takes over TV in a massive way...
Thoughts?
LL
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- It all depends if you want to stream the files from your NAS or are you happy to keep your Mac switched on. I have a similar setup to you, but your requirements might be different to mine.
Using iTunes you can stream your music, video, films, podcasts, photos without any difficulty. You can stream to other macs, iPads, iPhones and Apple TV's. You could even keep all your music and video files etc on your NAS and just reference them from iTunes.
However, if you want to stream from your NAS and switch you Mac off, then you have to look for a different solution. You could certainly use the iTunes Firefly server on your x86 NAS and stream your music this way. Unfortunately it doesn't handle video so you need to have another solution for that. There is a DNLA and a Plex media server available so you might want to look at these. - I was hoping to stream from the NAS including video, and have playlists, smart playlists and all the glory of iTunes. Sounds like firefly is not up for that. Seems more of a solution for just a little music and no playlists. At first look, the DLNA sever doesn't seem very complete either. Looks like all this stuff is more check box marketing stuff than real solutions on par with iTunes.
Squeezebox looks nice in concept, but looks like it doesn't work with iTunes purchased music.
Thanks for your comments.
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