[Cialug] Syncing music, mythtv, itunes, rhythmbox

[Jeff Chapin]

DLNA clients would allow you to run a server on localhost to share all
of these things, and the clients would pick up all the share settings
dynamically.

Jeff

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com
> <mailto:chapinjeff at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Any chance iTunes and RythmBox include a DLNA client?
>
>
> Doesn't look like it. If it did, what would that allow?
>
>  
>
>     Jeff
>
>     Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>     > My laptop is a dual-boot configuration. I use Mac OS sometimes and
>     > Ubuntu others. I keep my music organized in iTunes and then map
>     it to
>     > my home directory in Ubuntu and listen to it in Rhythmbox. I
>     also have
>     > a mythtv server.
>     >
>     > I was wondering if there's a way to synchronize my music to
>     mythtv so
>     > that my playlists show up there. I can obviously just copy the music
>     > and it'll show up, but not in my playlists. I have also played with
>     > scripts that synchronize playlists to removable media by exporting
>     > them but if the same file is in multiple playlists then it would be
>     > exported twice.
>     >
>     > Is there a good way to manage everything centrally? I'm not terribly
>     > fond of either iTunes or Ryhtmbox, or, for that matter, MythTV. I
>     > mainly use iTunes to sync my iPod. The one thing is I'd like to have
>     > my music somewhere on my laptop for listening unplugged as well
>     as on
>     > my network in case of tragedy and to listen to in the family room.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Matthew Nuzum
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>     > what their
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> Matthew Nuzum
> newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin and twitter
>
> "My aim has always been to get to the truth rather than to support some
> position. And in criticizing others, I have always tried to understand
> what their
> position was and not to misrepresent it. I have never been interested
> in cheap
> victories." -Ronald Coase 
>