[mythtv-users] Shared filesystem that looks different to different machines

Mike Holden mythtv at mikeholden.org
Wed Jun 4 03:56:37 UTC 2014


Sounds like a weird question, so let me elucidate!

On my mythtv box, I have a directory which contains all my ripped
CDs. This is shared via nfs and samba so that all other machines
(there's windows and linux clients) in the network can access them
to play music. Let's call this /myth/music.

The issue is that when this area is shared with iTunes, iTunes
insists on putting the downloaded podcasts in /myth/music/Podcasts.
There is no configuration for the podcasts location, it always puts
it at one level below your music. This is fine for a single user.

The problem comes when several people want to use iTunes to access
the music and load their own podcasts, because the podcasts area is
also shared via the same location for all users.

Therefore I need everyone to access /myth/music as a shared area,
but everyone needs to be able to access /myth/music/Podcasts as a
different area to all the other users.

I've tried Googling this, but not come up with the right combination
of vague words to find a solution here.

The only way I've thought of to work round this so far is to maybe
create /myth/music/Podcasts as a symbolic link to /local/Podcasts,
which is outside of /myth/music, and then share /myth/music out to
different Linux boxes, and each user obtains /myth/music from a
different server, all of which have a different /local/Podcasts.
This sounds like it should work, but I haven't tried it yet.

I don't want to duplicate the music - there's over 15,000 tracks in
there, and the collection is not fully online yet! This would be a
major waste of disk.

Can anyone think of any other way of doing this so that each user
can share a single copy of the music and have a local copy of
podcasts, given the invariance in the iTunes setup for the location
of the podcasts?

Thanks for any suggestions.
-- 
Mike Holden




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