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  iTunes Home Sharing Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2013-10-11 06:18 -0400
    Re: iTunes Home Sharing me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-10-11 13:04 +0000
      Re: iTunes Home Sharing Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2013-10-11 10:34 -0400
    Re: iTunes Home Sharing Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2013-10-11 21:29 -0700
      Re: iTunes Home Sharing Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-12 09:33 -0400
        Re: iTunes Home Sharing Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2013-10-12 09:32 -0700
          Re: iTunes Home Sharing Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-12 23:40 +0000

#18452 — iTunes Home Sharing

So, out of curiosity, I just loaded iTunes 11.1.1 on a secondary 
computer. (I use iTunes 10.7 and Snow Leopard regularly because I don't 
need all the "improvements").  I notice they have changed "Home 
Sharing" to require an Apple ID and limit it to 5 computers.  WTF?  
Previously it just used standard file sharing and you could see any 
computer on your network.

I don't need Apple policing my network and what I am playing.  I'm 
getting sick of this "cloud" nonsense and companies spying on me under 
the guise of usability and flexibility.

-- 
Nelson

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#18453

Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I don't need Apple policing my network and what I am playing.  I'm 
> getting sick of this "cloud" nonsense and companies spying on me under 
> the guise of usability and flexibility.

Let Apple know how you feel here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Good luck.

-- 
K.

Lang may your lum reek.

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#18454

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:04:18 -0400, Király wrote
(in article <l38t0i$vds$1@dont-email.me>):

> Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> I don't need Apple policing my network and what I am playing.  I'm 
>> getting sick of this "cloud" nonsense and companies spying on me under 
>> the guise of usability and flexibility.
> 
> Let Apple know how you feel here:
> http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> 

Or here:
http://www.talktothehand.com

-- 
Nelson

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#18463

In article <0001HW.CE7D48C903C4E511B01029BF@news.astraweb.com>,
 Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:

> So, out of curiosity, I just loaded iTunes 11.1.1 on a secondary 
> computer. (I use iTunes 10.7 and Snow Leopard regularly because I don't 
> need all the "improvements").  I notice they have changed "Home 
> Sharing" to require an Apple ID and limit it to 5 computers.  WTF?  
> Previously it just used standard file sharing and you could see any 
> computer on your network.
> 
> I don't need Apple policing my network and what I am playing.  I'm 
> getting sick of this "cloud" nonsense and companies spying on me under 
> the guise of usability and flexibility.

Library sharing should still be there.

Home Sharing is synchronizing the libraries of multiple computers via 
Apple.  I tried it a couple of times and found it to be too buggy.


I usually share my home music library as a password protected network 
volume.  iTunes can play that directly when it doesn't have library 
scanning bugs.  When iTunes doesn't work, I just copy the files to my 
phone and play from that.  It's not an iPhone so it has 80GB of storage 
and an sftp/rsync app that's much easier to use than iTunes.

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#18470

Kevin McMurtrie:
> Home Sharing is synchronizing the libraries of multiple computers via 
> Apple.  I tried it a couple of times and found it to be too buggy.

?? I've been using this on five Macs since whenever it was that it
first became an iTunes feature. It has never failed to synchronize
automatically--so long as the content is from the iTunes store.

> When iTunes doesn't work, I just copy the files to my 
> phone and play from that.  It's not an iPhone so it has 80GB of storage 
> and an sftp/rsync app that's much easier to use than iTunes.

?? "iTunes doesn't work" does not compute. It just works. "...easier to
use than iTunes" does not compute. Buy some content, it downloads into
iTunes, propagates to other computers automatically, copies to iOS
thingies if I tell it to. Having to click the mouse to tell it to sync
content to an iOS thingie is not my idea of hard to use.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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#18473

In article <121020130933102740%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> 
wrote:

> Kevin McMurtrie:
> > Home Sharing is synchronizing the libraries of multiple computers via 
> > Apple.  I tried it a couple of times and found it to be too buggy.
> 
> ?? I've been using this on five Macs since whenever it was that it
> first became an iTunes feature. It has never failed to synchronize
> automatically--so long as the content is from the iTunes store.

I've found that it doesn't recognize some songs at the source or 
destination.  It caused missing songs and a huge mess of duplicates.

The songs shouldn't need to come from the iTunes store.  Those that do 
still hit the bugs.


> > When iTunes doesn't work, I just copy the files to my 
> > phone and play from that.  It's not an iPhone so it has 80GB of storage 
> > and an sftp/rsync app that's much easier to use than iTunes.
> 
> ?? "iTunes doesn't work" does not compute. It just works. "...easier to
> use than iTunes" does not compute. Buy some content, it downloads into
> iTunes, propagates to other computers automatically, copies to iOS
> thingies if I tell it to. Having to click the mouse to tell it to sync
> content to an iOS thingie is not my idea of hard to use.

Ever since that pathetic "gapless playback" hack came out, iTunes has 
suffered problems where it randomly re-scans parts of the library on the 
foreground UI thread.  If your music is on a local hard drive you'll 
notice that iTunes feels very sluggish or the beachball flickers.  If 
your music is on a remote network volume, it continuously shows the 
beachball until it is force-quit.  Music videos make it worse.

How about iTunes Radio servers?  iTunes repeats the same song up to 
three times in a row then the station quits working for a day or two.  
Out comes the cellphone for Pandora.

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#18478

In message <mcmurtrie-B6AD16.09321112102013@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au> 
  Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> wrote:
> In article <121020130933102740%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> 
> wrote:

>> Kevin McMurtrie:
>> > Home Sharing is synchronizing the libraries of multiple computers via 
>> > Apple.  I tried it a couple of times and found it to be too buggy.
>> 
>> ?? I've been using this on five Macs since whenever it was that it
>> first became an iTunes feature. It has never failed to synchronize
>> automatically--so long as the content is from the iTunes store.

> I've found that it doesn't recognize some songs at the source or 
> destination.  It caused missing songs and a huge mess of duplicates.

I am having a lot of problems with iTunes 11, but I've never had a
problem with Home Sharing.

>If your music is on a remote network volume, it continuously shows the
>beachball until it is force-quit.  Music videos make it worse.

I dunno, with iTunes 11, the app beachballs after an hour o so no matter
what.

> How about iTunes Radio servers?  iTunes repeats the same song up to 
> three times in a row then the station quits working for a day or two.  

Haven't had that happen. Do you 'star' additional songs? OTOH, I'm only
using iTunes Radio on my phone.

-- 
'We get that in here some nights, when someone's had a few. Cosmic
speculation about whether the gods exist. Next thing, there's a bolt of
lightning through the door with a note wrapped round it saying, "Yes, we
do" and a pair of sandals with smoke coming out.' (Small Gods)

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