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[BryanC]

With so many devices accessing MC15, I was thinking of ways to simplify the DLNA/Library Server and syncing. Maybe there should be a similar "syncing" system like what Chrome or Firefox use for their web browsers. The caveat is that you would be able to choose what you wanted to sync to and from on each client. You wouldn't have one "main" library per se, but a library made up of all your different devices--of course you choose to aggregate them all on one or two devices that could serve as a central hub.

So say I set up my main library and do an initial sync TO the MC cloud (local cloud). I could then choose what to sync from this MC cloud on each of my devices. On my HTPC I might sync everything to have a duplicate library, or I might choose not to sync files, but rather access them over DLNA. Or maybe I only want Podcasts on my laptop since that is where I sync my iPod. So I would download the podcasts onto my laptop but not choose to sync them to the cloud (so they would not show up in the other libraries). Maybe my desktop computer has cable TV access which I sync (or open up) to the cloud and that I only choose to access from the HTPC. Maybe I want changes to options to be reflected on some devices, but not others. I would allow the computer I'm changing settings on to sync TO the cloud but would only choose to sync FROM the cloud on devices that I want to duplicate those changes.

So each copy of MC15 would have a long two column list where I could choose to sync FROM or TO the cloud:

                                 Desktop                                   HTPC                                  Laptop
                          To                From                     To              From                To                  From
Views                  X                    X                                                                X                       X
Options                X                    X                                                                X                       X
Playlists                X                   X                        X                  X                   X                       X
Files (library)         X                                                                 X                   X
Files                    X                    X                        X                  X                   X                       X
Handhelds             X                                                                                      X                       X
Podcasts               X                   X
TV                       X                                                                  X
Images                  X                   X                                             X                  X                       X


You could make it more seamless if every MC device automagically knew every other device that was connected in the network (including Gizmo, etc.) Then you could choose from and to certain devices to allow changes to be made between groups of devices (only an issue if you have >4 devices, but would make it a simpler process for even less than 4 devices). Then you could do something like this:

                                 Desktop                                   HTPC                                   Laptop                    HTPC 2
                          To                From                     To              From                To                  From      To            From
Views                  X                    X                        O                 O                   X                       X        O               O
Options                X                    X                        O                 O                   X                       X        O               O
Playlists                X                   X                        X                  X                   X                       X        X               X
Files (library)         X                                                                 X                   X                                                  X
Files                    X                    X                        X                  X                   X                       X        X               X
Handhelds             X                                                                                      X                       X
Podcasts               X                   X
TV                       X                                                                 X                                                                       X
Images                  X                   X                                            X                  X                       X                          X



Just an idea. Build on it?

[HiFiTubes]

Discussing speeding up MC and the unavoidable growth of our libraries over, say, the next decade, I think this is the future of MC.

More later, exhaustion ensuing....