Hi,
some NAS devices have a iTunes Server. Qnap does have this. But I haven't used
it yet.
This is a interesting thread since it is what I wanted to do myself as well. I
want to access all the movies, audiobooks, music, etc via the NAS on the ITv.
But if I cannot control what is seen by who
That's the same reason I first figured it out was to keep the kids from
messing up my wife's laptop when they were watching movies and such. I
also did the parental controls stuff to keep them from accidentally
deleting things.
CB
On 2/6/12 6:42 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Well I answered my own
Hey Tim,
Yep it works and the way I worked around the issue of the media was to keep it
on an external drive and do not let iTunes import it. Since this is what I
wanted to do from the beginning, I got what I intended accomplished. The whole
idea was to put the movies and other video content on
Hi Scott,
The Username of the user account is immaterial to the Apple ID. If most of
your media content is tied to your Apple ID, and in order to use Home sharing
properly, you'll probably need to use the same Apple ID. This will not use up
a computer authorization as that is already handled
Well I answered my own question and thanks a lot gents. I set this up and it
works exactly as I had hoped. In fact the really great side benefit is the
library has only those things my wife and kid want which is the movies. Now we
don't even need the DVD player. :)
On Feb 6, 2012, at 1:30 PM, C
I guess that depends on how much content you have tied to that ID. For
me I would keep it the same.
CB
On 2/6/12 3:34 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Ah, now you two gents are just to clever. See I had not really had a
need for fast user switching, but now knowing this I can have my cake,
doughnuts,
Ah, now you two gents are just to clever. See I had not really had a need for
fast user switching, but now knowing this I can have my cake, doughnuts, and
coffee as well. Now the only final question is since I use my Apple ID, does
that other user have to be me or can I make it a test user if I
Hi Scott,
>
> If you turn Fast User Switching on in system Preferences, then you can
> actually have two users logged in at the same time. You should then be able
> to run iTunes from both accounts like Chris mentioned. When using Fast User
> Switching, you can just go between the various log
You can be logged into one box multiple times as different users, each
running a copy of iTunes. Each instance of iTunes has it's own library
and preferences. So I was logged into my laptop both as myself and an
account I called Test. Each one ran iTunes and had sharing turned on.
Then on anoth
Chris,
Yes I understand that is possible, but unfortunately and unless I am missing
something here, the issue is I would have to log in as that user and launch
iTunes. THis means I could not be logged in as myself because it would not be
possible to effectively have two instances of iTUnes runn
I'm saying you can have two different users both logged into the same
Mac and both with their own instance of iTunes running. Give it a try by
creating a second account and then switching to that user without
logging out of the current user. If you launch iTunes you'll find a
pristine library w
Chris,
Yes a Mini would work in this case, but not looking to go that route. I'm done
buying computers for a while. :)
So, with that said my wife is a user on my Mac. I could obviously log in as her
and setup iTunes and that would work great. However, I do not know how I could
have us both logg
Hey Tim,
Well for now I scrapped the entire idea and just have to accept that everything
is exposed. I wish I could use my NAS device for this, but apparently it will
not work because the APple TV 2nd generation has to authenticate back to a
running version of iTunes. Apple really needs to do a
As an aside, an old MacMini would also make a nice media computer if you
want real storage and more than what an AppleTV will get you. The
headphone jack is actually a digital optical output which you can
connect to any typical surround-sound stereo to get the full 5.1 output
from DVDs and such
Hi Scott,
If you had a 1st Generation Apple TV with the built-in HD, this would work as
once the Apple TV is synced, you wouldn't need to have the iTunes Library
actually active. Now, of course, they're hard to find now and you need sighted
assistance to set them up, but after that, you'd be g
Hi,
I don't see why you shouldn't be able to use the same apple ID your using now
in the new library. I'm not 100% certain of this but, I would think your Apple
TV would share with whatever library happens to be active at the time. I'm
pretty curious to know how this turns out. lol
Ricardo W
> Tim and Ricardo,
>
> I figured out how to do this, but sadly I ran into one problem that I suspect
> there is no solution for. In order to make this Home SHaring thing work you
> have to have iTunes running and that library active which means I cannot use
> my library. So, it amounts to all o
Hi Tim,
As I said to Ricardo, this idea crossed my mind, but I am not sure how to tell
the APple TV once I use my iCloud/iTunes ID which library needs to be used. I
assume the first order of business it is to simply create the library by
holding down the option key at startup and setting up the
Ricardo,
I thought about that, but here is a question that perhaps you will have an
answer for. So, I have to use my APple ID to setup the Home Sharing. If I were
setup a separate iTune library, how do I tell the Apple TV which library to
use? In particular because the APple TV is connecting to
Hi Scott,
I've only been able to restrict things when using the Sharing pane of iTunes
Preferences, not when using Home sharing. The problem is that the Apple TV 2
uses Home sharing so I, so far, think the second Library idea is your best
option.
Later...
On 2012-02-05, at 2:33 PM, Scott How
Hi,
Why not set up another iTunes library just for this purpose? Its sounds like
the easiest way to segregate your content.
Ricardo Walker
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On Feb 5, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to f
Hi all,
I am trying to figure out how I can share specific content via Home Sharing. I
do not want to expose my entire music catalog, but only specific videos etc. I
have not found a way to do this. The idea is to share these videos so they can
be played on the Apple TV. Does anyone have any su
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