Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread mibigo
I have iMac and picoreplayer and an usb drive that is connected to the router; so that i ca see theusb drive as a server on the network. Then i use an apple script to that run Rsync to sync my iTunes library from my iMac to the USB drive. It Works quite smoothly. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread mrw
Carbon Copy Cloner on a mac can sync between a mac and networked drive. In my case, from my iTunes folder on my mac direct to the USB disk attached to my LMS server. The USB disk being shared by the LMS server using samba. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread d6jg
df77 wrote: > Unfortunately that is not possible with sync free - with resilio sync > (free) the sync process is always between different instances of the > sync daemon, and therefore even using smb as a target would require a > second machine running resilio sync. > > The big advantage of res

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread df77
tastewar wrote: > df77- is Resilio Sync (free version) capable of targeting the optional > Samba share that can be installed in LMS on pCP? Or does it require that > Resilio software is running on the pCP itself? Unfortunately that is not possible with sync free - with resilio sync (free) the s

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread Redrum
slartibartfast wrote: > Freefilesync also works well. > https://freefilesync.org > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk this is what I use to sync two systems, one at home the other at a cabin. I do it not only for music, but favorites and prefs. The object is to have two identical systems a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread tastewar
Thanks, d6jg; I would like to avoid, if possible, the complexity of a adding a NAS (another device to manage, find a place for, etc) if I can, but I appreciate the simplicity (in some sense) of having it be a "hub" that some devices would write to, and others just read from. df77- is Resilio Syn

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread slartibartfast
Freefilesync also works well. https://freefilesync.org Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread df77
I strongly recommend resilio sync for such tasks. It's a very powerful and simple tool for such use cases, but afaik it's no packages for pcp are available. In principle that should be doable: There are at least builds for arm and armhf available (https://www.resilio.com/individuals/) I use resi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread d6jg
tastewar wrote: > I have a piCorePlayer 8.0.0 running LMS server using a local USB hard > disk to store my music library. A long time ago, I plugged it into a > computer and copied my iTunes music library to it. I have, on occasion, > manually updated it, but what I would really like is to be ab