iTunes 9 – Home Sharing
Posted by nathan | Filed under Thoughts
I like that Apple has added Home Sharing in iTunes 9. It allows you to “sync” music, movies, tv shows, audiobooks and applications, with up to 5 computers in your house. It can automatically transfer new purchases of the mentioned file types—although only works with purchased files.
This works great for keeping my work iTunes synced up with my home iTunes. I just bring in my laptop every few days and sync it up. I wish they would add the ability to sync play counts and ratings.
I’m curious how it will work with mp3’s that have had the ID3 tags modified from one library to another.
iTunes Mobile
Posted by nathan | Filed under Music, Thoughts
I don’t like to carry all of my music, movies, tv shows, etc. on my laptop but since that’s the computer I have with me most of the time, it has become the computer that I manage my iTunes library on. I would prefer be able to leave most of my 100GB+ library at home on my main workstation and just take a portion of my library with me at any given time. However, I don’t want to manage multiple libraries.
I would like to see iTunes incorporate syncing of not only iPods, iPhones, and Apple TVs but also mobile devices like laptops and netbooks. The laptop/netbook would still have full blown iTunes installed. I’m thinking that you would set your main iTunes to “master” and your laptop/netbook iTunes to “mobile.” Once set up, your main iTunes would see your mobile devices and allow you to sync similarly to syncing an iPod.
Modifying meta data in the mobile library might require a more robust syncing system like Apple’s MobileMe Sync.
How well could this work? Am I missing anything?
