Re broadcasting itunes round the house - I don't know if this is of any interest but I just tried out Airfoil (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/) as there's now an iPhone app - Airfoil wireless speakers - which means you can broadcast any audio from your mac to your iPhone but you can also send to any other macs / pcs on your network. I was primarily interested in it because I can now broadcast spotify to my iphone which is linked to my tv and speakers via a component cable. Works a treat!
Liam Kelly wrote: > Cheers Guys for your responses - very useful > > I really don't want a wireless backup for timemachine - I currently > use timemachine on a wired WD Drive for all the macs - they only back > up the basics as all machines are used more as workstations and all > the important created files are stored on a Lacie HD - this is my > central hub drive (not a hub before anyone corrects me - I'm just > calling it that for ease) I want a big drive using RAID to store all > my design/photo/film work I create on.... access from my office Mac, > but to also be safe with the backup potential of RAID - I like the > Lacie 2GB option and I do like the DROBO, but it's so god damn > expensive just for the casing without any drives in it - is it that > good - the video on the siate makes it look ace. If anyone has any > preference over big RAID drives I wouldn't mind knowing - I've heard > lots of stuff though SMUG about the unreliability of Lacie drives - I > have had 4 over the years and had no problems what so ever... but > there's always a first time I guess... > > Re the other question - So again I'm looking for a networked iTunes > Server that can be hardwired direct into a Mac Mini plugged into our > TV - the TV uses the Mac for internet etc, and then Front Row uses the > firewire drive for it's films etc - it needs to be wireless for the > rest of the network so that the other macs can access the iTunes > library over the houses wireless network. So I've thought about a 1TB > drive plugged direct into the Mac Mini, then a new Apple Extreme Base > Station plugged into the drive to broadcast the iTunes around the > house. Would I need anything like this - http://tinyurl.com/mqxm3c - > a gig ethernet switch for over the network - I'm just currently using > a Be Broadband ADSL Router at the moment - does the AEBS do this job > for me? Is wireless networking that hard??? > > Or as my office is in the house - maybe a Drobo with 8GB drives and > the Drobo wireless adapter - who knows!!!! has anyone else set up a > similar set up???? > > I'd really appreciate any ideas.. cheers > Liam > > On Aug 1, 1:02 pm, Paul Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
