Hi Alex, As with most things iTunes, the answer is “No”.
Your problem is that Apple TV 3 has no means to stream media locally from anything that isn’t iTunes. And iTunes won’t run on a Raspberry Pie (or any NAS). Hence, you can’t get to your FairPlay-protected content on any device, or any content on Apple TV 3. You have two options to pursue, but neither really quite does what you want. If you can run something like forked-daapd that will stream to your Apple TV on demand, you could tell your Pie to stream the music that you selected. You have to use some alternative control plane, like a web interface. This is actually what some NAS products do to work around this deficiency. I don’t know what the current state of the art is in AirPlay-compatible media servers for Linux,, but needless to say, using something like Plex directly is only possible with the newer Apple TV, so you need to arrange for whichever one you choose to use AirPlay. The other option, of course, is to surrender to Apple’s whim and run a copy of iTunes, somewhere. And yes you can easily set up the Apple ID required. The trick here is that iTunes can run on any physical or virtual machine, and yet still be configured to access your Raspberry Pie’s storage, thus keeping your data centralised, but not on the machine that runs iTunes. This too has a drawback: iTunes isn’t designed for multiple users to use it simultaneously, and it relies on a database which is exclusively locked while iTunes is running. You could arrange for people to share the media files on the storage, and maybe even add it to the iTunes library using iTunes’ “Automatically Add to iTunes” folder, but you’d still need to update the one copy of iTunes to consolidate such media or make other changes to the library. This probably means running it on a physical machine. For Macs, I’d suggest your own workstation, but with the main window closed and iTunes left otherwise running, for very easy access. You can also use the last version of iTunes to run on Windows XP, and on newer NAS products, run an XP virtual machine on the NAS itself. Or buy a very small Atom-based PC that runs Windows, etc. So, yeah. Not really what you wanted to hear, I imagine, but I hope that helps. Cheers, Sabahattin -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
