Hey Tim, Well for now I scrapped the entire idea and just have to accept that everything is exposed. I wish I could use my NAS device for this, but apparently it will not work because the APple TV 2nd generation has to authenticate back to a running version of iTunes. Apple really needs to do a bit of work on Home Sharing in order to ensure a little bit more control. After all you might have small children that you would like to have access to some content and not other content. Of course you are correct in that I could run a VM and I could avoid running windows by instead running Linux and setting up DAAP, but this seems like a lot of workaround for no good reason. :) Of course any other ideas I'm more than happy to hear them.
THanks, On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Scott, > > If you had a 1st Generation Apple TV with the built-in HD, this would work as > once the Apple TV is synced, you wouldn't need to have the iTunes Library > actually active. Now, of course, they're hard to find now and you need > sighted assistance to set them up, but after that, you'd be golden. I was > also thinking about iTunes Match on the 2nd Gen Apple TV, you'd be able to > use a matched Library in that situation except, at the moment, it only > applies to iTunes music files, not movie and TV shows. You might also have > volume restrictions from your ISP that could interfere with this idea as well. > > Not helping much, am I? > > Hmmm, you could stoop to putting Windows on your Mac as well so that you > could run Fusion or Parallels, thus having two Libraries running > simultaneously from the same machine. I don't particularly care for Windows > though, even though I have to use it at work sometimes. > > I'll think some more and let you know if I come up with anything. > > Later... > > On 2012-02-06, at 4:34 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > >>> Tim and Ricardo, >>> >>> I figured out how to do this, but sadly I ran into one problem that I >>> suspect there is no solution for. In order to make this Home SHaring thing >>> work you have to have iTunes running and that library active which means I >>> cannot use my library. So, it amounts to all or nothing. So, that idea >>> ain't gonna work. >>> >>> THanks, >>> >>> On Feb 6, 2012, at 6:02 AM, Scott Howell wrote: >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
