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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: kevind on July 11, 2007, 03:32:53 pm

Title: best way to share playlists?
Post by: kevind on July 11, 2007, 03:32:53 pm
Greetings,

Here is my scenario:

I have a primary server with Media Center on it being controlled by MainLobby/MusicLobby tablets throughout the house for distributed audio.
All audio files are on a shared NAS array

Making playlists from the tablets is not simple
Going down to the server room to make playlists is simply not practical

So, I want to be able to make a playlist from the office PC and save it to the primary server so it automatically shows up on the MusicLobby tablets. I've tried variations of LibraryServer/Client and these don't seem to solve the problem at all. In a library server/client config I made a playlists on the client and exported it to a shared "playlists" folder that the server monitors. There are several problems with this latter setup
Autoimport does not seem to be automatically picking up the playlists
When a playlist created by an client is imported manually at the server side it duplicates the song entries in the master library...thereby corrupting it. I don't want duplicate songs...just the friggin playlist of what songs to play.


It can't be this difficult can it? How is everyone else sharing playlists across their networks?

Title: Re: best way to share playlists?
Post by: ndhunay on April 04, 2008, 10:51:18 pm
Kevin, did you ever get a resolution to this?  I've got the same problem.

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Title: Re: best way to share playlists?
Post by: flac.rules on April 05, 2008, 03:40:21 am
Yeah, me too, the client-server-setup si a bit hampered by the fact the you generally cannot do much changes on the server-side from the client. And doing stuff on the server is not a good solution.