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My primary operating system is Mac OS, but I do increasingly work on a Windows partition (because Solidworks won't make a loving mac version). I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that I still buy music rather than stream it, and I've got a heft 350+Gb folder of music on my mac side. My question is is there a piece of software I can use to read the Mac folder on Windows, so I can listen to terrible jazz fusion albums while I work? The folder is organised by iTunes on the mac side, for reference.
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# ? Mar 27, 2018 17:47 |
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Cymbal Monkey posted:My primary operating system is Mac OS, but I do increasingly work on a Windows partition (because Solidworks won't make a loving mac version). I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that I still buy music rather than stream it, and I've got a heft 350+Gb folder of music on my mac side. My question is is there a piece of software I can use to read the Mac folder on Windows, so I can listen to terrible jazz fusion albums while I work? The folder is organised by iTunes on the mac side, for reference. Theoretically, most media players should be able to do what you want, as long as Windows can see your macOS partition. So that's the place to start; can Windows see the macOS partition?
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# ? Mar 27, 2018 19:35 |
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I'm pretty sure i was able to just read the music library on the mac partition from bootcamp when I did this, no real extra setup or anything involved
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# ? Mar 27, 2018 19:58 |
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I can't set up iTunes to read it without causing problems, what's good in Windows music players?
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# ? Mar 27, 2018 22:19 |
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I'm lame, I just use windows media player. Lets me load up a ton of stuff, play it on looped random. Easy to add from other partitions/network locations too. Any specific features you'd want though?
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# ? Mar 27, 2018 22:40 |
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I still like to use foobar https://www.foobar2000.org/ .
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# ? Mar 28, 2018 02:37 |
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I'm lame, I just use windows media player. Lets me load up a ton of stuff, play it on looped random. Easy to add from other partitions/network locations too. Mostly just robust library organization.
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# ? Mar 28, 2018 11:41 |
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I've always liked J River Media Center, but it costs money. There's a Mac version too, but you need a (more expensive) master licence to run both Windows + Mac versions.
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# ? Mar 28, 2018 16:26 |
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How often do you reorg your library? Personally, I just duplicated my iTunes library, copied it to my Windows install, then updated the file paths on that library. It gets out of date compared to the Mac library, but I don't find that to be an issue.
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# ? Mar 29, 2018 04:42 |
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~Coxy posted:How often do you reorg your library? I'm adding three or four new albums a week so this would be wildly impractical.
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# ? Mar 29, 2018 13:17 |
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Fair enough then. It costs money, but an iCloud Music Library subscription is probably the easiest option.
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# ? Mar 29, 2018 13:39 |
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I went with Google Music because MacOS and Windows have different ideas on implementing Unicode and thus it never works. That's a lot of music though and something like a Syno NAS with their streaming music player may be more practical, well outside of running Parallels on MacOS.
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# ? Apr 7, 2018 21:50 |
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(1)Would it make sense to just make a partition just for your music that's exfat and can be mounted on both? (2)Would it work to use some other computer to run a media server to house the majority of your music? I have most of my stuff on an external drive that mounts to Linux and Windows. It works pretty good for me, I also how a few old computers sitting around running filesharing that I mostly use to stream movies and house files that my friends can go through.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 16:21 |
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# ? May 19, 2024 15:45 |
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nesamdoom posted:(1)Would it make sense to just make a partition just for your music that's exfat and can be mounted on both? I've thought about a third partition but it seems like a lot of hassle as my music library slowly takes over my entire hard drive. The media server is also something I've thought about but then I completely lose portability and I don't have my library when I travel.
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