I use SB for my home music system and itunes for synching with my ipods/iphones. I'm not sure there is anything much easier for you to do, but then again, I find it pretty simple. Here's what I do:
1. My SB stuff is not connected to ITUNES in any way. That is, I do NOT use the SB/itunes integration features. 2. My music is all on a USB hard drive connected to my home computer (that runs SB Server and iTUNES). Skipping some of the details about how things are organized, assume it is all on D:\music (my actual setup is more complicated as I have FLAC files that only SB sees, mp3/aac files that both SB and Itunes sees, and then mp3 versions of FLAC files that only itunes sees; this is all handled automatically by my file directory structure). 3. I tell SB Server that the music library is D:\music. It scans this, creates its own database, etc. I then use SB to play this music. 4. I also tell ITUNES that the music library is D:\music. Itunes keeps its own library updated with this info. I don't use itunes for playing anything, but I do synch my ipods/iphones to this ITUNES account. 5. If I add a new album, song, etc. I add this to my itunes library. There are several ways to do this depending on whether you want itunes using its own naming/directory structure approach. For example, itunes now has an automatic way to do this. You can put the new music in the "automatically add to itunes" subdirectory (see link). http://lifehacker.com/5356619/itunes-finally-adds-watched-folder-to-automatically-add-new-music 6. To make SB see the new music, I simply do the incremental music scan (scan for new music) or occasionally I simply do a rescan of my complete library. Bottom line: I have one copy of files on a drive and both itunes and SB looks at these files, but otherwise don't interact with each other. Let me know if you have any questions or I can clarify. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78499 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
