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Title: What's the safest way to set this up?
Post by: mesue on September 01, 2008, 03:11:05 pm
I finally convinced my husband to ditch Winamp and install Media Jukebox. I use MC and do all the music management. He's going to be accessing the same music files on the server, but through his own local library. For now, I set his MJ up to auto-import but not write any changes to tags. But what is the best way to set it up if I want him to be able to edit just a few fields and have his updates imported into my library?

Title: Re: What's the safest way to set this up?
Post by: Matt on September 01, 2008, 03:53:15 pm
This is one approach:
http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/Sharing_a_media_library_with_multiple_users_on_a_home_network_%28LAN%29

Another is library server.

Another is independent libraries each watching the same folders.  Tag changes from one will be detected by the other.
Title: Re: What's the safest way to set this up?
Post by: mesue on September 01, 2008, 08:42:56 pm
Another is independent libraries each watching the same folders.  Tag changes from one will be detected by the other.

This is what I am currently doing. But if I want to ensure that he can only edit specific tags, what do I need to do for that? Do I need to edit every single library field in his program and make sure "store in file tags" is unchecked except for the few fields I want him to be able to edit? And would the global setting "General > update tags when file info changes" override this?
Title: Re: What's the safest way to set this up?
Post by: mesue on September 02, 2008, 08:16:55 pm
bump

anyone?
Title: Re: What's the safest way to set this up?
Post by: AustinBike on September 02, 2008, 09:15:36 pm
I have a few hundred gigs of music on my NAS.

I have one directory for music and another for the library.

Every computer on my network is mapped to M:\ for music, k:\library for the library files.