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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: iTunes -- single library; multiple access?
Date: 24 Nov 2013 18:22:46 GMT
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On 2013-11-24, Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
> In article <bfeoniFb4v5U1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-11-24, Sandman <mr@sandman.net> wrote:
>> > In article <l6nvg7$ooj$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Robert Peirce 
>> > <bob@peirce-family.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>  I am contemplating the idea of putting my iTunes library on a networked
>> >>  RAID array so it can be easily accessed from two locations. The problem
>> >>  is accessing it from two locations at once.  On the surface this doesn't
>> >>  seem to be possible but I may be missing something.
>> >
>> > You're not missing something, it's not possible. Two iTunes processes can't 
>> > share the same library directly.
>> >
>> > Only way is to make sure that iTunes A is shut down before you launch 
>> > iTunes B, or use Home sharing on iTunes A (and forget about thr RAID) which 
>> > means that the library can be accessed by iTunes B, but only edited and 
>> > maintained by iTunes A.
>> 
>> I'm not sure why you think the RAID can't be part of the solution. I
>> host my iTunes library with Home Sharing from a Drobo RAID, and it works
>> quite well.
>
> How do you solve the simultaneous editing thing?  AFAIK, whomever 
> modifies a music file (or any file that's on network drive) gets it 
> first. Dropbox, at least, manages to fork the file so that there are two 
> of them with different names.  But that's not UNIX's usual behavior in 
> this case.

That problem is independent of the type of volume you choose for
storage. Also, Home Sharing doesn't allow editing of ID3 tags from
remote machines. So in that respect, it's a non-issue.

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