![]() ![]() It sounds like I should have just replaced the dead RAID with a new RAID and resigned myself to needing to keep a Mac mini powered up 24/7 like I was doing before. I think I made a huge and expensive mistake with the purchase of the 920+. Also since I'm all Apple at home, how would I add music and movies to the iTunes library on the NAS – especially stuff I purchase from the iTunes Store using my Mac or iPad? Log in to the Windows VM on the NAS and only purchase media using iTunes there? That's not going to fly with the rest of the family. Since Apple has abandoned iTunes in favor of separate Music and TV apps in the Apple environment I wonder how long iTunes has left in the Windows environment. Thank you Fred for your insights and the discussion thread you mentioned above. And I've got the family to move to Plex apps. To address this I stopped using the 'organise iTunes media' option and keep separate sub-folders for 'movies (drm)' and 'movies', etc. The only thing is any Apple DRM content will not play, but I don't have much of that. ![]() I've mostly moved to using Plex as I have apps on all my Apple devices. It doesn't work with iOS/padOS/tvOS devices. Other than that I created a single /multimedia shared folder with folders here for the different media types.Īs for iTunes Server: this only works to present a library to Mac/PC iTunes and Mac Music/TV. The best approach, I find, is to keep separate folder trees for music, films, and tv shows because life is a lot easier for tagging, esp. The /music and /video shared folders are created as convenient places to keep these types of media files but you can add your own, provided you don't use your personal /home folder (shared media cannot be accessed from here). Like other Synology media packages, iTunes Server picks up media folders that have been added to Control Panel's Indexing Service. There was a reasonably long/old thread at The Other Place about the underlying package being out of date, and hack to fix it (IIRC). I'm not sure when it was fixed as I rarely use it but it definitely works again in DSM 7's iTunes Server. ![]() When Apple split up Mac's iTunes to Music, TV, Podcasts, and Books that was when Synology's iTunes Server had problems being picked up by these new apps. I also need to sync 2 Dropbox accounts and 2 OneDrive accounts to the NAS but I should probably ask about that in a different post. I'm hoping I didn't make an expensive mistake. That means being able to use AppleTV and all of our iOS mobile devices without jumping through hoops just to watch a movie or TV show or listen to music. The NAS has upped the complexity since it is its own "device" and I'm not sure how everything should be setup so it works just as before for the other people in the house. When the RAID died (luckily it was backed up every night) I decided to go with a NAS so I wouldn't need to keep a computer powered up 24/7 to act as a media and file server. Do I copy my iTunes Media folder to either the Music or Video folder on the NAS or do I need to split my files between them? Do I need a different app?Įverything seemed simpler when I had a RAID on my Mac mini and it was seen as just as external shared drive. This is where where iTunes saves everything and my AppleTV plays everything from it. My Mac mini has an "iTunes Media" folder that contains all my music, movies, TV shows, podcasts and audio books. I downloaded iTunes Server and it automatically installed a Music folder and a Movies folder at the top level of the NAS. I just got my DS920+ and I'm starting to get it all configured. If I should ask this elsewhere then please let me know. I didn't see a section about the iTunes Server app so I figured that I would post my question here. ![]()
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