So far I have tested MC12 mostly on a single PC. I have occasionally tried Library Server and recently also the new shared library system with two of our PCs, but I think it is about time to start testing this properly.
As I have explained a few times I have pretty much stopped using Library Server with MC11.1 because of the known limitations. LS is good if you use it for listening to standard music files and don't need to edit library data, create playlists, burn CDs, synch portables, watch full length movies, play special file formats like APL/CUE, etc... on the clients. For us, the limited playback only functions of LS are not enough.
My solution has been to share the media folders on the server and use local libraries on each PC. I copy the latest library data and thumbnails to each PC daily. This works, but is awkward and from time to time we have lost some playlists or other library edits because someone forgot to follow our "rules" and the library duplicate process overwrote the changed data.
The new shared library option is interesting. It would make the library duplicate process unnecessary and allow one of the PCs save changes (the first started MC instance), but as I said, so far I have only tried it quickly.
How do you use MC on a home LAN? Please share your experiences.
Edit: I forgot to number the poll items. (1-3) means the first three.