Hi Jim,
Yeah, I thought of having a 'playback only' library. But I'm so bad with multiple libraries; I make changes on one, then the other, and I never know which is the most recent...
On the other hand, this machine will always be on (and hence the library will always be 'open') and editing the same library from another machine while the library is open somewhere else is never good.
You must noodle with this sort of thing all the time at home. What do you do? I mean, do you rate songs as they play while in the living room for example, while doing the major tagging work in another room? How do you cope with the multiple libraries keeping them synchronized?
Oh, and btw, I can finally appreciate all those other features in MC now that I have this machine: watching tv, taping, etc (we don't have tivo in Canada yet, so this is the alternative). But I was wondering about one thing: scheduling tv shows to tape. I know Media scheduler does almost anything, but is it possible for me to customize Hairstyles to include scheduling functionality to tape my shows? Somehow I can't see Media Scheduler being legible on a tv screen. That might be the only reason I have to use other software, which I want to avoid as much as possible.