Alright, long post warning, thank you for your patience. I have been using MC for years, and think that I still have not understood how to properly use the media network, and I have been unable to find the specific information that I need. I recently got a Raspberry PI and I want to finally I use the network "the way it's meant to be used" from a design perspective. I would highly appreciate your help.
So, situation, as it was before:
- Music and Videos reside on a NAS
- NUC hooked up to TV has a local library, configured to be reachable with Gizmo from the Interwubs
- Other PCs in-house have their own local library running, but are also configured as servers
- DJ laptop has a local copy of the music
- Several Raspberry PIs should ideally serve as library-less targets for playback
Ideally, I would like to be able to control all zones from all PCs AND with Gizmo. So I figured the "proper" way to do that must be that all media center instances load the library of the NUC. However, I cannot figure out how playback zones are shared in the network. Some show up, some don't, so I figure I am missing something that I do not understand.
Furthermore: How would I configure MC for the NUCs? I have had great success installing everything and making it all runnable with the respective posts in the forum - but I still don't know whether that nuc should have a library at all? load the NUC library? or somehow just expose its playback zones to the network? I suppose that is the problem after all - I am unclear on the difference between sharing libraries and how to configure sharing of playback zones.
If someone could line out the "proper" solution, that would be very helpful. Thank you in advance!