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Authored by: escowles on Jul 28, '03 10:53:25AM

I've got to ask why you would want to do this. If you can share the files via AppleShare, Samba or NFS, why not just add them to your library? It lets you add/delete files, add album cover info, etc. If the share isn't mounted, double-clicking on a song in iTunes will mount the disk for you. What could be simpler?

I've had lots of problems with NFS (crashes reliably after playing mp3s for a few hours) and a few problems with AppleShare (netatalk doesn't support long filenames very well, at least as of 1.6). But I've been using Samba for a few weeks now, and it works like a charm. Other than feeling a little weird using Samba to network between to Unix machines (OSX and Linux), I don't have any complaints.

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Authored by: sweetsdream on Jul 28, '03 12:38:27PM

I didn't know iTunes would auto mount a SMB share, I'll give it a try. I did this mainly to see if I could and I was suprised how easy it was.

I also have freinds that come over and access my Airport network. Setting up samba on Linux for many users or guest users is very insecure.

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Authored by: zojas on Jul 28, '03 01:31:29PM

I want to be able to plug my ibook into my tv and splash the itunes visualization stuff on the screen while the music plays through my big stereo (also plugged into the ibook). I have 20gb worth of mp3s (all from my cds). I don't have that much space on my ibook's drive.

when I'm away from home, I don't want to see a bunch of songs in my itunes library I can't play.



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Authored by: tcurtin on Aug 26, '03 06:00:30PM

Once again....
<ax grinding>if iTunes supported smart lists based on *file location* this wouldn't be a problem. Just make a smartlist for local files when you're on the road, and a smartlist for your server, your ipod... Allows all kinds of other organizational options as well. Apple... listening?
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Authored by: brainsik on Oct 22, '03 05:55:27AM

Comments like these remind me of the true reason I rather be using free software.



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Authored by: GaelicWizard on Jul 31, '03 01:40:15AM

The daap protocol is especially designed to stream music. Using any other standard file sharing method would be much less efficient.

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Authored by: imagine on Apr 15, '04 05:43:13PM
I agree. daap'ing your own music is dumb. I tried it a few months ago. It's dumb because the music is not in your library so you can't do any fun stuff like ratings and smart playlists.

Run NFS on the Linux machine and use the iTunes Library Manager script to switch between your Network-library when at home and your laptop's library when traveling.

I come home, hit Cmd-K and double click my Mp3 share. Good to go. I even use mDNS on the Linux machine so I can use a Rendezvous name for the NFS share. With Panther I don't have to necessarily worry about unmounting the share. When I'm out of my home, it times out and lets you autodisconnect the dead share after 30 seconds or whatever.

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Authored by: boostdave on Sep 05, '04 01:04:58PM

Unfortunately my wife's iBook had some problems reading files over a wireless Samba connection without glitching (I realize NFS is supposed to be better, but I have to serve to windows machines too and it looks like I'm having a hard time getting NFS going anyway).

It seems, from what I've been reading, like there are some real limitations with the DAAP approach, like for example that you can't sync parts of your library to an iPod attached to a client machine being served these files.

If I keep the files on a shared disk it seems to me that I'm going to be losing the buffering capability that would help smooth out network bandwidth issues, right? Also, IIUC there's some facility for "pushing" library index updates from the server to clients -- is that right? I guess I'd lose that, too.

Or does it make sense to use both approaches in tandem so that I can sync an iPod, too? I'm a little vague on iTunes' library management capabilities; I don't know if this can be done sanely.



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