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Title: Shared Metedata?
Post by: Jamil on November 04, 2010, 07:23:57 am
I have a NAS that stores all of my media. All computers within my home network then connect to this server. I have installed an evaluation of Media Center that is working fine on one machine. According to the docs I had read, MC supports full synchronization between a server and a client. What is not clear to me is is this only supported when using MC to stream audio?

If I have a copy of MC installed on computer A with a second installed on computer B, is streaming audio from A to B the only way to keep A and B's MC metadata in synch? Alternatively, is there a way I can have A and B's metadata stored on the NAS that both clients can share and update simultaneously?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Shared Metedata?
Post by: Matt on November 09, 2010, 11:30:50 am
Welcome to Interact.

Alternatively, is there a way I can have A and B's metadata stored on the NAS that both clients can share and update simultaneously?

For full simultaneous bidirectional access you need to use a Media Center Library Server.

However, you can put the media library on a NAS and share it with any number of machines.

In this scenario, the first user to open the library gets read/write access and subsequent users get read-only access.

More here (http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Sharing_a_media_library_with_multiple_users_on_a_home_network_(LAN)).
Title: Re: Shared Metedata?
Post by: HTPC4ME on November 13, 2010, 09:56:18 am
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In this scenario, the first user to open the library gets read/write access and subsequent users get read-only access.

More here:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Sharing_a_media_library_with_multiple_users_on_a_home_network_(LAN)
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Title: Re: Shared Metedata?
Post by: JimH on November 13, 2010, 10:23:02 am
I fixed the link in Matt's post.  It was missing the closing parenthisis.