So, spent the morning looking at various options for us to organize our music. We currently have all our music in itunes. not crazy about itunes, but it works. All devices that will be accessing it our iOS devices (iphones, ipad, macs). It would be nice to be able to access it with other linux machines (ubuntu) or windows, but not a necessary; i guess windows is not an issue but Ubuntu would be since itunes is not available.
Ideally, I want all the music files, cover art images, etc on the NAS so that we do not duplicate the information.
Is there a simple way of setting up/moving all our music so that we do not have to keep it on each computer? I have been reading up on Plex and it seems like good alternative, except that we have to install clients and pay for using the software. Many of the write ups i have seen seem out of date. Older versions of FreeNAS had under Services, Itunes/DAAP, but I no longer see this under 11.
I don't know that we need to access itunes outside of home network and we would download music on each iphone, per the user's preferences.
Ideally, I want all the music files, cover art images, etc on the NAS so that we do not duplicate the information.
Is there a simple way of setting up/moving all our music so that we do not have to keep it on each computer? I have been reading up on Plex and it seems like good alternative, except that we have to install clients and pay for using the software. Many of the write ups i have seen seem out of date. Older versions of FreeNAS had under Services, Itunes/DAAP, but I no longer see this under 11.
I don't know that we need to access itunes outside of home network and we would download music on each iphone, per the user's preferences.