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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">How
do other people handle their</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">music/image files? I'm thinking I'd like to use the
mac to manage the</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">data
(assuming this "apple is user friendly" stuff isn't bunk),
but I'd</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">grown used to being able to view/listen to my files
from my living room</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">via
myth.</font></blockquote>
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<div>I've found that my Myth box and my Macs are pretty happy
together. Pretty easy to setup too. I've got a .16 backend and a Al PB
15" 1.25Ghz and a Al PB 12" 1.33Ghz.</div>
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<div>I set up samba on my Myth box and share my entire /store, which
contains all Myth's music, video, photo, etc. I also use it for file
sharing between my Macs. Recordings aren't on this share, but I have
been using the Mac frontend binaries to access the recordings from my
Mac. It works pretty well over 802.11g with only occasional, almost
non-existant, pauses (a little more buffering would probably make it
spot on).</div>
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<div>I always hated having all my music on my Mac for iTunes because
its a lot of space that I could be using for other computing/work
related data so I just copied my entire iTunes folder from my Mac to
/store/mythmusic. Then I made an alias from that location, put it on
my Mac where it expects to find it (in the Music folder), and renamed
it without the " alias" ending. Launched iTunes and Bob's
you Uncle's Brother! This config has been working great. Myth scans
the iTunes folder properly and all my music (except aac's and ALL is
available from Myth (and MythWeb!). Its also available, via iTunes,
over Samba on my Mac! Better still, Myth and both Macs can be
playing/adding music or updating my iPod all at the same time without
interfering with each other.It would be unbelievably great if Myth
recognized the iTunes library and would make all my playlists and such
available, but I'm willing to lime without it for the time
being.</div>
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<div>I also copy my iPhoto library to my Myth box (/store/photos)
occasionally - as a backup to the copy on my Mac mostly - but those
photos also appear in Myth Gallery that way. Again, it would be great
if the Myth side recognized the iPhoto library and presented things in
a more manageable manner (with my iPhoto albums, for example) but
maybe that will come one day.</div>
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<div>The other night, I realized that I could play my movies from my
Mac even though this currently isn't supported in Mythfrontend (the
Mac binary). I did this by running MPlayer on my Mac and then
connecting to the movies in the Samba share. It worked great. I did
have to increase the cache in Mplayer a bit to compensate for my weak
802.11g network but once I got that set, we watched an entire movie
without a hitch.</div>
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<div>All in all, its pretty slick. Definitely recommended.</div>
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