Music servers - PC and Macs?

[johnnylexus]

I have a goofy setup where a PC is my main computer. I also have a Powermac G5 that houses all my music files.

Is there an easy way to share/transfer files between computers that are hooked into the same in-home network? I have been struggling a bit with this and I wondered if anybody else does it and has some tips.

 

[krmathis]

iTunes + Shared Library...
Meaning that you set up a shared library on your PowerMac G5, and activate "Look for shared libraries" on your PC. That it if they run Mac OS X or MS Windows...

 

[johnnylexus]

???

 

[krmathis]

Which part of my post did you not understand? All of it maybe?

 

[VeipaCray]

+1 for Krmathis' suggestion of shared iTunes library.

You can share the itunes library (setting in iTunes) and any other computer running iTunes (windows or mac) will be able to access the files and play them through itunes... it shows up as a remote music library.

For other files / folders / directories that you wish to share... just go into system preferences on the mac and enable "Personal file sharing" and "Windows Sharing". You will then be able to access files on your mac from any other system in your house. Enabling windows sharing will give you a CIFS compatible share that you can mount from most anything nowadays. The windows systems will see it natively, the macs can mount CIFS, and unix / linux / bsd systems can mount cifs via samba client.

 

[johnnylexus]

Thanks for the suggestions.

If I ripped some music CD's on the PC and wanted to move them over to the Mac, what would be the best way to do that?

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnnylexus /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks for the suggestions. If I ripped some music CD's on the PC and wanted to move them over to the Mac, what would be the best way to do that?

I guess using Shared Folder as mentioned by 'VeipaCray' above. Either sharing a folder on the Mac, and access from the PC (write access needed). Or the other way around (read access needed).