Archive for the 'media storage' Category

iTunes Media Wrangling with Smart Playlists

UPDATE: It appears, at least in iTunes 7.0.2 that isntead of creating some big, cumbersome playlist with lots of “is not” entries as mentioned in the first link below, you can simple do “Playlist, is, Music” or “Playlist, is, TV Shows” - yay!
iTunes has some awesome features, but some odd deficiencies.
One such is the inability […]

Media Recovery

The bane of having an awesome media server, regardless of whether it houses audio, video, photos or all-of-the-above is that you have to rely on physical devices somewhere to store the data…
Having recently had yet another hard drive decide to begin spewing bad sectors, I went on the hunt for recovery information for the overly […]

rant regarding media servers

I was originally commenting on an article on Engadget but felt like expanding it a bit here.
Ok, what everyone has to remember is that the User Interface of whatever is presenting you with your >1,000 DVD library has to not just be good, but has to be GREAT. The only GREAT interface I’ve found is […]