Chatting About My Future iTunes Networking Plans | IMNC

The next episode in my home network series is a little while away, so I thought I'd ramble about some of the plans I have and some of the things I've been experimenting with using this new setup. The main point of discussion is iTunes but I chat about the network and it's uses as a whole.

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[Swrd]

Always love these "quick" videos. When you think of quick. You think of maybe 5-10 mins. In Tom's book. It means 20 minutes. Never get enough of this channel. P.S Thanks for sending me the link for the speaker cable EDIT: Try SyncBackFree. Using it nightly for my backups. Easy to use and hopefully does what you want it to do.

[jacobwasher]

Tom, Ive been watching your videos since 2010. The quality has gone though the roof since then. Your videos are always the videos I look forward to the most, and the ones I go looking for in my feed. Keep up the great work, and know that you're making a difference!

[edwalters]

Quote: "just a really quick video here..." 20 minutes later...

[LewisPhot]

The old 300GB WD drives are doing well even for 2nd hand drives!

[iphonepunker]

I would recommend installing Yosemite on the Mac mini through "SFOTT " I did it on older Intel hardware and works fine

[gmancarini]

Hey tom, what if you build a small hackintosh to replace the mac mini? Quinn of Snazzy Labs just did one (granted it wast cheep) that has all the modern i/o and then means you can price it how you want. I'm sure you could find a second get i3 for a good price along with a motherboard. just a thought.

[tylerdoestech]

Personally, I liked the logistics discussion of this video. I think the best option is to have a simple network share folder on the Mac Mini that any iTunes client can access at any time and that updates automatically from any machine's interaction. This way, no machine is dependent upon iTunes running in the background, and multiple clients can access the libraries at once, plus you have a more reliable hard drive than the 5, 400RPM 2.5" hosting everything.

[BlindsBar]

yet another some vide glad i caught it earlier then usual keep the good content up looking forward to what is ahead

[xinam]

Nice little update vid. Looking forward to seeing the network grow.

And item is on the way! ;-)

[TalesOfWar]

My iTunes library forever grows lol. I have about 300GB worth of music (30, 000 or so tracks) and 3.5TB worth of movies and TV shows, most ripped from Blu-rays and compressed down. I really think I need some kind of NAS thinking long term. Good thing I have the lot backed up on 3 separate drives!

As far as the NAS goes, you could just throw Windows on there with iTunes running. Not quite as nice as having a mini but iTunes is iTunes at the end of the day as far as streaming over your network is concerned.

[SlotGamer]

Another thing you could do in the meantime is have each system have it's own library locally (pointed to the network share) and have CCC image your main systems itunes library files to the serer every night (or boot) and all the other devices use CCC to copy that daily image overwriting their own, because wouldn't you be mainly modifying the library using your main desktop?

[ashleycox]

I'd probably look out for a Mac Mini with an early I5 or I7 series chip. As nice as the Core 2 minis are, the time will come sooner rather than later when Apple will kill them all off. It'll be a while before they drop support for the I5s and I7s so it'll be more future proof in the long run. Pains me to say that really, as the old 2007 Mac Mini will probably always be my favourite out of any of the machines I've owned. That Mac was rock solid from day one until the day I stupidly sold it.

[wolfwarren]

I think you may be able to get away with hacking your current Mac mini. Install mountain lion on an external drive with your laptop and then remove the platform support.plist. I did it with my unsupported 2008 MacBook. It works just fine. Well, with a couple of tweaks, of course. 😀

[TimeTechnology]

Nice chatting video. Instead of buying the USB hub you could simply buy another USB cable so you have one to take with the hard drive and one that stays in the rack if you get what I mean :)

[maxpowers]

Hey Tom, I own a Mac Mini Late 2009 8GB Memory Ram 128GB SSD and a 500GB internal HD with Mac OS X 10.8.5, it was my main machine until I bought a Mac Mini 2012 Quad Core i7, now I using the Mac Mini '09 as a file/printer/media server (similar as your server set up) and it works great. right now I have connected 4 USB3 drives 4/3/3/1 TB and 3 FireWire drives 1TB / 2x500GB. I have all music, movies and TV shows on iTunes and I don't have any problem streaming to multiples devices (2 Apple TV's 3 Macs, iPhone and iPad) I do not recommend you to buy a 2009 Mac Mini BUT a 2011or 2012 i5 model for two reasons: USB3 and Thunderbolt.

Cheers...

[adamferngren]

I just bought a late 2009 mac mini to use as a fileserver. :)

[jezzermeii]

When you get a NAS, install OpenMediaVault (rather than FreeNAS!) and use the iTunes DAAP plugin. :)

[Bouncer]

Currently in the middle of building a NAS using parts that were classed as "junk" And I5-760 plus motherboard and 8GB DDR3.

Heck that stuff is newer than my own gaming rig!

[connorm]

Hey Tom, great video! Just a thought on Home Sharing, I may be mistaken but sharing from an older machine should work? When I tried Home Sharing I managed to host my Library from my iMac running El Capitan. My PowerBook G4 running Leopard had no issues accessing it and playing music and videos hosted on the iTunes Server on El Capitan. It may not work the other way round and if you have already tried home sharing from Lion to your newer machines and it didn't work I apologize for telling you what you already know . Just my 2 cents worth ;-D Keep up the awesome videos and I hope you can find a good solution to this sharing issue as your raid enclosure/backup solution is an awesome idea!

[TudorGruian]

There's a hack that you can run the latest OS X on 2006 Mac Mini