Comments on: Sharing Music http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/ a technical discussion about all things Macintosh Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:10:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: theroguestudios http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-738 theroguestudios Thu, 08 May 2008 05:38:47 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-738 A tool I have been using lately to sync my home and work music libraries is Mojo: http://www.deusty.com/. It allows you to share via a local network or internet. A bit glitchy but pretty helpful. A tool I have been using lately to sync my home and work music libraries is Mojo: http://www.deusty.com/. It allows you to share via a local network or internet. A bit glitchy but pretty helpful.

]]> By: jezzahardin http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-477 jezzahardin Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:46:15 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-477 Moved the iTunes Library to a USB disk through Airport Extreme and it works pretty well. Unfortunately, Rentals seem to fail. I rented Shoot Em Up and watch the first hour as it downloaded. When it finished downloading, it was unwatchable on any machine, and couldn't be moved to the iphone. The error wasn't telling. Hitting play in iTunes simply refused to play but returned no error. For moving to the iPhone, it said "Cannot be copied to the iPhone" or something like that. Thoughts? Anyone else running into this? Moved the iTunes Library to a USB disk through Airport Extreme and it works pretty well. Unfortunately, Rentals seem to fail.

I rented Shoot Em Up and watch the first hour as it downloaded. When it finished downloading, it was unwatchable on any machine, and couldn’t be moved to the iphone. The error wasn’t telling. Hitting play in iTunes simply refused to play but returned no error. For moving to the iPhone, it said “Cannot be copied to the iPhone” or something like that.

Thoughts? Anyone else running into this?

]]> By: Chris http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Chris Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:05:38 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-466 HI just wanted to comment on a great show. I have worked for years to get this fleshed out in my house for myself, my wife, and our kids. My biggest impetus was that I live in an old house that proved too difficult to wire for whole house audio. I finally got it all put together nicely using a combination of airport express, tivo, airfoil, and slim-server (from the slimbox guys). Basically, what I do is run a slimserver on my fileserver (an old g4 mac) as well as airtunes. I have 3 tivos around the house plugged into tv's and/or home theater setups. The Tivo can subscribe to a slimserver broadcast using an HME plugin and play it back through the stereo. I then have airfoil capturing the audio from the slimserver on the server and broadcasting it out to the airport expresses in the parts of the house that aren't covered by the other stereos (e.g. out in the patio and the garage area). Finally, the kids have G3 imacs in their rooms that they use to play older educational games and listen to music (they're great for playing lullabys and use almost no electricity most of the time) but also have a slimserver client running on them so I can subscribe to the music the rest of the house is listening to. I didn't realize airfoil could broadcast directly to them, I'll have to look into that as the slimclient software is a little heavy for the old beasts. The best part of this setup is on cleaning day when we all want to blast 'cleaning music' throughout the house! It's also a nice solution in that we can turn off any part of the house we want or have it play something else entirely. The kids love it! HI just wanted to comment on a great show. I have worked for years to get this fleshed out in my house for myself, my wife, and our kids. My biggest impetus was that I live in an old house that proved too difficult to wire for whole house audio. I finally got it all put together nicely using a combination of airport express, tivo, airfoil, and slim-server (from the slimbox guys). Basically, what I do is run a slimserver on my fileserver (an old g4 mac) as well as airtunes. I have 3 tivos around the house plugged into tv’s and/or home theater setups. The Tivo can subscribe to a slimserver broadcast using an HME plugin and play it back through the stereo. I then have airfoil capturing the audio from the slimserver on the server and broadcasting it out to the airport expresses in the parts of the house that aren’t covered by the other stereos (e.g. out in the patio and the garage area). Finally, the kids have G3 imacs in their rooms that they use to play older educational games and listen to music (they’re great for playing lullabys and use almost no electricity most of the time) but also have a slimserver client running on them so I can subscribe to the music the rest of the house is listening to. I didn’t realize airfoil could broadcast directly to them, I’ll have to look into that as the slimclient software is a little heavy for the old beasts. The best part of this setup is on cleaning day when we all want to blast ‘cleaning music’ throughout the house! It’s also a nice solution in that we can turn off any part of the house we want or have it play something else entirely. The kids love it!

]]> By: Jason http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Jason Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:39:55 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-463 Anyone know of tools similar to the ones mention that copy music/video files from iphone and/or apple tv to the mac? My google search didn't turn up anything. Anyone know of tools similar to the ones mention that copy music/video files from iphone and/or apple tv to the mac? My google search didn’t turn up anything.

]]> By: Michael http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Michael Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:00:49 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-450 Thought I'd add some late thoughts on my approach. For me the linchpin has been mt-daapd (fireflymediaserver.org), the open-source DAAP (aka iTunes music sharing) server. This guy runs on Windows, Unix and Mac OS X and can share out music to multiple systems. So, for my system, I keep all my music and video on a file server (Ubuntu Linux if you must know), then use either Samba to share it out or mt-daapd to share to my iTunes clients. I also use the Roku SoundBridge M1001 (rokulabs.com) as a music playback device. Seems to work pretty well and is quite cheap ($150ish). Plays most formats including AAC and ALAC. Only real issue is my wife's iTunes library and managing it. She keeps a separate library on her PowerBook and syncs to it and then I just work with her to make sure all music is copied to the central server for backups and sharing. Thought I’d add some late thoughts on my approach. For me the linchpin has been mt-daapd (fireflymediaserver.org), the open-source DAAP (aka iTunes music sharing) server. This guy runs on Windows, Unix and Mac OS X and can share out music to multiple systems.

So, for my system, I keep all my music and video on a file server (Ubuntu Linux if you must know), then use either Samba to share it out or mt-daapd to share to my iTunes clients. I also use the Roku SoundBridge M1001 (rokulabs.com) as a music playback device. Seems to work pretty well and is quite cheap ($150ish). Plays most formats including AAC and ALAC.

Only real issue is my wife’s iTunes library and managing it. She keeps a separate library on her PowerBook and syncs to it and then I just work with her to make sure all music is copied to the central server for backups and sharing.

]]> By: Grant http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Grant Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:55:45 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-427 Again, another great show! Thanks for taking the time. I expect my (international) plastic dinosaur any day now. PODCASTS: I'd like to have some Podcasts that I get every ep. automatically and some that I'll pick & choose (not MacBreak/TWiT shows, obviously). Is there a way of doing this with 1 library in iTunes, or should I make 2 libraries - one for 'get all ASAP' and another for 'I'll check you once a week, thanks' ? Again, another great show! Thanks for taking the time. I expect my (international) plastic dinosaur any day now.

PODCASTS:
I’d like to have some Podcasts that I get every ep. automatically
and some that I’ll pick & choose (not MacBreak/TWiT shows, obviously).

Is there a way of doing this with 1 library in iTunes, or should I make 2 libraries – one for ‘get all ASAP’ and another for ‘I’ll check you once a week, thanks’ ?

]]> By: harp http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-413 harp Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:18:38 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-413 Big fan of the show. I even subscribed to Audible through you guys, give some sponsorship love. I'd love to see this expanded, an episode on say, sharing video, a mac media/NAS server. A mini htpc and the world of options that entails (for those who don't go the aTV route). I'm a video professional and some of this stuff even makes my head spin. Big fan of the show. I even subscribed to Audible through you guys, give some sponsorship love.

I’d love to see this expanded, an episode on say, sharing video, a mac media/NAS server. A mini htpc and the world of options that entails (for those who don’t go the aTV route). I’m a video professional and some of this stuff even makes my head spin.

]]> By: Shash http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Shash Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:36:49 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-396 The AudioEngine A5 speakers are great for this, my friend just got them and they have a power outlet and slot for the airport express! So my friend will be on his iPhone, and use Telekenisis (the program, he doesnt actually have wierd powers), to control his mac to make the speakers in the next room start blasting out music-people are usually blown away by this. Oh, and the reason that the airport express is not called Airport iTunes is because it is also a fully fledged mini-router, basically its an airport extreme that runs on 802.11.G and doesn't have Ethernet routing. But it can share a printer and get up to 10 users on a mini wifi network, it also functions as a network extender for the airport extreme. The AudioEngine A5 speakers are great for this, my friend just got them and they have a power outlet and slot for the airport express! So my friend will be on his iPhone, and use Telekenisis (the program, he doesnt actually have wierd powers), to control his mac to make the speakers in the next room start blasting out music-people are usually blown away by this. Oh, and the reason that the airport express is not called Airport iTunes is because it is also a fully fledged mini-router, basically its an airport extreme that runs on 802.11.G and doesn’t have Ethernet routing. But it can share a printer and get up to 10 users on a mini wifi network, it also functions as a network extender for the airport extreme.

]]> By: Josh http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Josh Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:38:04 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-387 I have a MBP C2D with a 120 GB hard drive. I originally had used the USB Disk on my Airport Extreme to host my iTunes Library, but this is very problematic because the MBP will lose connection to the AirPort Extreme and cause all heck with iTunes if you leave it open. I was also using an AppleTV with this setup and even though it was an 'N' network since it has to share the music via the MBP the performance was terrible. I recently upgraded by connecting a computer via HDMI to my main TV and using it to share my Video content (sharing in iTunes for my MBP and streaming for my Apple TV) another benefit of this is that i can also view it on the TV its connected to. This allowed me to host all of my 'music/audio' content on my MBP since I only have about 60 or 70 GB of music. IMO, this is the best solution, you can carry your music anywhere, but you have unlimited storage for your Video content and can stream to multiple sources with great performance. I have a MBP C2D with a 120 GB hard drive. I originally had used the USB Disk on my Airport Extreme to host my iTunes Library, but this is very problematic because the MBP will lose connection to the AirPort Extreme and cause all heck with iTunes if you leave it open. I was also using an AppleTV with this setup and even though it was an ‘N’ network since it has to share the music via the MBP the performance was terrible.

I recently upgraded by connecting a computer via HDMI to my main TV and using it to share my Video content (sharing in iTunes for my MBP and streaming for my Apple TV) another benefit of this is that i can also view it on the TV its connected to. This allowed me to host all of my ‘music/audio’ content on my MBP since I only have about 60 or 70 GB of music. IMO, this is the best solution, you can carry your music anywhere, but you have unlimited storage for your Video content and can stream to multiple sources with great performance.

]]> By: macbreaktech http://macbreaktech.com/old/51/sharing-music/comment-page-1/#comment-385 macbreaktech Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:57:45 +0000 http://macbreaktech.com/51/sharing-music/#comment-385 uhhh... I got that wrong? I know my notes (see above) that I used to flow the show had that fact right. I must have misread what I wrote. oh well. uhhh… I got that wrong? I know my notes (see above) that I used to flow the show had that fact right. I must have misread what I wrote. oh well.

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