Comments on: Accessing your iTunes library http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/ The Plex blog Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:09:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Leonardo http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-37305 Leonardo Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:29:02 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-37305 Is this still needed to do, even with Plex 0.8.3 ? I mean, after I installed Plex 0.8.3 I see that it has a iTunes Menu, and it sees my iTunes library. Does this iTunesFS does anything different? Is this still needed to do, even with Plex 0.8.3 ?
I mean, after I installed Plex 0.8.3 I see that it has a iTunes Menu, and it sees my iTunes library. Does this iTunesFS does anything different?

]]> By: Steven http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-20241 Steven Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:43:08 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-20241 UPDATE: iTunesFS now supports sharing over AFP and SMB (in my testing, anyway). Just do "defaults write com.mulle-kybernetik.znek.iTunesFS FUSEOptionAllowOther -bool YES" UPDATE: iTunesFS now supports sharing over AFP and SMB (in my testing, anyway). Just do “defaults write com.mulle-kybernetik.znek.iTunesFS FUSEOptionAllowOther -bool YES”

]]> By: Steven http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5728 Steven Wed, 21 May 2008 00:11:02 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5728 Regarding my tip above - it seems that the the volume is only visible over smb://, and NOT afp:// - which is fine for XBMC but annoying for file sharing. Regarding my tip above – it seems that the the volume is only visible over smb://, and NOT afp:// – which is fine for XBMC but annoying for file sharing.

]]> By: Steven http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5486 Steven Mon, 19 May 2008 18:08:55 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5486 If you really want to share iTunesFS over afp/smb, you can secondary mount the iTunesFS volume in an smb-shared directory. I used the sshfs from the macfuse project at http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS Here is the script I have to load iTunesFS, then mount it in my ~/Movies directory: open /Applications/iTunesFS.app sleep 15 /usr/local/bin/sshfs USER@localhost:/Volumes/iTunesFS ~/Movies/iTunesFS_Share -oallow_other,rdonly,nolocalcaches,volname=iTunesFS_Share If you really want to share iTunesFS over afp/smb, you can secondary mount the iTunesFS volume in an smb-shared directory. I used the sshfs from the macfuse project at http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS

Here is the script I have to load iTunesFS, then mount it in my ~/Movies directory:

open /Applications/iTunesFS.app
sleep 15
/usr/local/bin/sshfs USER@localhost:/Volumes/iTunesFS ~/Movies/iTunesFS_Share -oallow_other,rdonly,nolocalcaches,volname=iTunesFS_Share

]]> By: CharlesV http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5280 CharlesV Fri, 16 May 2008 23:13:28 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5280 Confirmed: running it with xbmsp shares successfully. I ran the following: ccxstream -r /volumes -f and it showed up on my xbmsp share with the rest of my volumes. The only trick was to turn off tag reading in the music settings section, otherwise the id3 track # tags will override the filename tags iTunesFS uses for track ordering on playlists. Small price to pay (and besides, itunes is already naming things correctly based on your tags, right? :)) Confirmed: running it with xbmsp shares successfully. I ran the following:

ccxstream -r /volumes -f

and it showed up on my xbmsp share with the rest of my volumes. The only trick was to turn off tag reading in the music settings section, otherwise the id3 track # tags will override the filename tags iTunesFS uses for track ordering on playlists. Small price to pay (and besides, itunes is already naming things correctly based on your tags, right? :) )

]]> By: charlesv http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5271 charlesv Fri, 16 May 2008 20:03:51 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5271 I meant xbmsp... brain's not right today I meant xbmsp… brain’s not right today

]]> By: charlesv http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5270 charlesv Fri, 16 May 2008 20:02:36 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-5270 has anyone tried sharing over xmpp? I was gonna give it a shot later with ccxstream... i've been liking the simplicity of smb, but itunesfs could have me switching back has anyone tried sharing over xmpp? I was gonna give it a shot later with ccxstream… i’ve been liking the simplicity of smb, but itunesfs could have me switching back

]]> By: alexis http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-2266 alexis Sat, 03 May 2008 05:05:24 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-2266 @Danny Symolic linking does nothing to alleviate the SMB problem in my case. It may be related to the -o local problem I mentioned before but I honestly can't say. @elan You can use Firefly media server to get back Daap support in iTunes 7. In its default state it seems to work ok (you can see your library and all your playlists), but the titles look really wonky in XBMC last time I tried it (whereas connecting to the server with iTunes they look fine). Maybe baseline XBMC will fix this eventually, but like you said its slow over DAAP and it would be pretty cool to see iTunesFS work out. @Danny Symolic linking does nothing to alleviate the SMB problem in my case. It may be related to the -o local problem I mentioned before but I honestly can’t say.

@elan You can use Firefly media server to get back Daap support in iTunes 7. In its default state it seems to work ok (you can see your library and all your playlists), but the titles look really wonky in XBMC last time I tried it (whereas connecting to the server with iTunes they look fine). Maybe baseline XBMC will fix this eventually, but like you said its slow over DAAP and it would be pretty cool to see iTunesFS work out.

]]> By: elan http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-2244 elan Fri, 02 May 2008 20:10:57 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-2244 @certuna: I found DAAP support inside XBMC to be buggy and slow, hence why I was looking for alternative means, besides the obvious reason of not being able to connect to iTunes 7. Yeah, UPnP has many of the same problems. @certuna: I found DAAP support inside XBMC to be buggy and slow, hence why I was looking for alternative means, besides the obvious reason of not being able to connect to iTunes 7. Yeah, UPnP has many of the same problems.

]]> By: certuna http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-2232 certuna Fri, 02 May 2008 14:55:02 +0000 http://elan.plexapp.com/2008/04/27/accessing-your-itunes-library/#comment-2232 Local iTunes library mounting is definitely a good idea, but why should it try to mount it via SMB if it can already connect through DAAP? On a different note, OSXBMC seems to have a bit of a problem handling my large (70,000 song) library over UPnP: discovering the library is no problem but it seems to time out before the (huge) library can be loaded. Local iTunes library mounting is definitely a good idea, but why should it try to mount it via SMB if it can already connect through DAAP? On a different note, OSXBMC seems to have a bit of a problem handling my large (70,000 song) library over UPnP: discovering the library is no problem but it seems to time out before the (huge) library can be loaded.

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