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Doxxic
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Amsterdam
 
2007-07-18, 04:13

Instead of a central server, a solution could rather be to move media sharing functionality from their respective apps to Mac OS X's central sharing preference pane, so photos and music can be simply shared whenever your computer is on.

It would also be nice to allow for networking activity when the laptop lid is down (i'm not sure how this goes with sleep mode though).

I think what's behind the wish for a server solution are these concrete wishes (in my case anyway):

+ I'd love to be able to keep sharing playlists with iTunes not running. (same for my photo libraries)

+ I'd passionately love iTunes music to keep streaming to Airport XPress when the lid of my MacBook is down. If possible? (same for making backups via the wireless network at night when the MacBook sleeps)

What keeps my wife and me from sharing stuff over a LAN easily is that you often need to start the respective apps on the other person's computer in order to get their files shared. And make sure the lids aren't down.

I think that's really all there is to it.

Last edited by Doxxic : 2007-07-18 at 04:29.
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