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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-320 => Topic started by: mkelley on June 05, 2012, 10:01:24 PM
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Maybe I'm just asking for trouble here, but in an effort to try and manage my household iTunes I turned on the server on my 320.
Prior to this I had just connected to it as an NAS. I didn't (and still don't quite) see there's any advantage to using the iTunes server software, but I thought I'd give it a shot to see how it works.
But while it's "cooking" (building the media library) I started reading the web and seeing that one BIG drawback to using an iTunes server is the inability to create playlists in iTunes. Since nearly all that I do is built around Genius and Smart playlists, I'm now thinking I just wasted a whole lot of time turning the server on.
So I guess I have two questions:
1) What advantages, if any, are there in using the iTunes server on the 320 versus just accessing it as a networked drive in iTunes?
2) Do I really lose the ability to create Smart playlists and use Genius playlists (I often build smart playlists based on Genius lists)?
TIA for any assistance.
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can't answer your questions directly, but I created playlists for each album/cd single and the iTunes server does see these and share them.
never tried to create a playlist on my mac to music held on the NAS so can't help beyond the above.
(ps thought iTunes server was buggered now with the latest updates to iTunes?)
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I have no experience on Playlist, but I turned on my itunes server just yesterday and works fine with fw 2.03b and itunes vers 10.6.1. :D
the only drawback is that you cannot (easily) have the cover art on your itunes NAS ..
see pic!(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vtonmPpaRsc/T9APY9GwTCI/AAAAAAAAABQ/wH00LQwv3z4/s800/iTunes_screen.png)