Yes, it is possible to run multiple copies of SC, one on your NAS and
one on your PC. However, the problem that arises is that the two will
use different databases to track your music library. Each copy will
maintain its own database on the machine it's running on, so changes to
one will not affect the other. Also, the file/directory paths by which
each copy refers to your song tracks will be different. So running two
copies will not give you the effect you want.
The browser interface into SC is not a particularly spiffy way to
create and maintain extensive playlists anyway, so even people who run
SC on a PC often use another tool to create and change playlists, as do
those of us who are running SC on a NAS or other server. The biggest
difference for us, though, is that we have to change the file paths.
Here are the steps I use:
- Map a network drive to your NAS share holding your music
- Open a media player (I use J. River, but pretty nearly any player
will do) and have it scan the mapped music drive
- Use the media player's slick-and-easy interface to create playlists
as desired
- Export the playlists to M3U format (some players use M3U as their
default; with others, you have to do a separate export)
- Open the M3U files in a decent text editor - if you don't have one,
even a crummy one like Notepad or vi will do
- Do a global replace to change the mapped drive letter to the proper
root path on your NAS (If your NAS is not Windows-based, you'll
probably also have to change the folder delimiters from backslashes
to slashes)
- Save the modified M3U files into the directory on the NAS where you
told SC its playlists are stored
- When you're finished updating playlists, bring up the browser
interface to SC and tell it to re-scan playlists
This might sound cumbersome, but after you've done it once or twice,
it's actually very easy. It lets you take advantage of the easy-to-use
playlist builder in the native media player software, and the tweaking
of the path names becomes automatic. (I set up a macro in my text
editor to do it, so it's really a one-keystroke operation. If you get a
text editor like Crimson or UltraEdit, it takes almost no time or
effort.) I maintain dozens of playlists this way, set up for different
moods or circumstances. (My wife loves it, because it relieves her of
any effort of building up her own playlists using the Duet controller,
and she likes the convenience of picking a three- or four-hour list
with one button.)
Hope this helps get you where you're trying to go. The Duet is great,
but if you use playlists a lot, neither the controller nor the browser
interface is particularly slick for building or changing them.
--
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