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Make sure iTunes mounts a networked music library
Authored by: dan55304 on Apr 23, '07 09:16:43AM

I used to do something like this but wanted a better solution. My problems came into play when OS X had difficulty mounting the drive. In my case it was because the host IP address changed or one of the routers between me and the music was having issues. I'd get the spinning lollypop of death for a very long time until my Mac realized it wasn't going to mount the shared volume. Apple's timeout is very long and locks up your Mac.

The same was true when my Mac went to sleep and Tiger would try to re-establish communication with the music volume. I've now given up on it completely. I'm back to using a single computer managing the library and using iTunes sharing to access it.



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Make sure iTunes mounts a networked music library
Authored by: taxi on Apr 24, '07 07:01:39PM

The whole sleep/wake disconnect thing bugs me too. Otherwise, everything would be hunky-dory.

Before I read this hint, I used a script to automatically mount the shared drive at startup, and then another one when waking up. At one stage I also had a script that ran every minute, and made sure the server was still connected. This was when the server was running poorly, and used to disconnect occasionally.

For me, this hint would be complete with a way to quit iTunes (nicely) whenever the machine is put to sleep.



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Make sure iTunes mounts a networked music library
Authored by: rickx on Apr 25, '07 10:51:46AM
[Don't know why they anonymized my little hint...anyway]
@dan
if you have a changing IP of the computer holding the files, it's obviously a problem. A solution could be using the name instead of the IP, if somebody between you and the target can translate that (a DNS server, or through netbios).
Regarding the sleep/awake issue, I solved that too (more or less) using another cool hint. There's a tool you can download that executes a script whenever your mac goes to sleep or wakes up. Search for sleepwatcher.

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