Comments on: Using Time Capsule as a Media Drive

By: Thiago

Thiago — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:37:09 +0000

How do I do that? In Finder? I couldn´t find the “Login Items” you mentioned….Could you plz explain me?

By: Richard Ellis McCallum

Richard Ellis McCallum — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:51:45 +0000

Hi, I’ve had my Time Capsule set up exactly as this since I first bought my TC when they first came out. It’s all worked flawlessly ever since but after installing Snow leopard I can no longer get the TC to mount on my desktop as a hard drive and iTunes keeps losing it as my library preference.

It still works intermittently and is now mounted as a ‘Sharepoint’ but scheduling a back up from the TC to an external attached to the USB socket is a definite no-no. That means I can no longer back up my 40000+ music library and now I’m looking at buying another ‘proper’ NAS server…

Cheers

rich

By: walse

walse — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:06:11 +0000

Great tutorial for the iTunes part!

However, I cannot make it work with iPhoto. Every time, I tried to drag the iPhoto Library to my Time Capsule disk, I get an error message after copying 18MB saying:

“The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Rebuilt Library 2” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)”.

I tried to rebuild my iPhoto Library using iPhoto Library Manager, but it did not help. Any ideas?

Thanks!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:05:54 +0000

I bought the 1tb timecapsule and when I try to save anything to it, it states is it read only and will not allow the transfers… how can I make it NOT a backup, but a HD that I can save all my media files to? Sorry – VERY new mac user and frustrated with my purchase

By: GE

GE — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:43:40 +0000

I followed your instructions, and for the most part works great. One minor issue I keep running into, when I purchase music via iTunes, a new folder gets created on my mac for iTunes music and the purchased items are stored there. I constantly have to move them. Workaround? Thanks!!

By: Daniel Kelleher

Daniel Kelleher — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:49:27 +0000

I am running an older macbook and the hard drive is almost full of music and photos etc. Can’t afford a new macbook so looking to use TC as the drive to store everything on. This tutorial indicates that it will work. As I am bit of a novice at these things I have a question. Once I have done all of the above do i need to do anything about “deleting” material from the macbook or does the above mean my hard drive will finally be free!? Sorry if this is a dumb question but i really am a complete novice at this stuff

By: Nick Babenko

Nick Babenko — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:38:25 +0000

This is a great solution. I’ve been using it for a while now but I’m having some issues with it now, not sure what’s causing it but it crashes my iTunes when I play a song, I always open a new folder on my Time Capsule, to ensure it’s running, even though I never needed to but 9 times out of 10 iTunes doesn’t seem to like what’s happening. Also, when it does play it skips frequently so I can’t get a full song. I’ve tried so many fixes but none of them fix the issues I’m having.

I agree that Apple should release some sort of media device to store music, videos and photos. It would make things so much easier, especially if Apple made it, it would work seamlessly.

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By: james Gabbani

james Gabbani — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:17 +0000

How did you mirror your TC onto the Lacie?

By: ALBERTO CORRAL DIEZ

ALBERTO CORRAL DIEZ — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:43:30 +0000

Hi folks, ihad use the tutorial and all works fine but i have a question. I think that this tutorial made TC works without Macbook, i mean when i show the movies or tv shows on my apple tv i need that my macbook it is on with itunes run cos if i turn off the itunes the apple tv dont find the media folder of TC. i dont know if thats fine cos i was thinking that i can put all my media in TC and dont use the macbook.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:46:41 +0000

Will this work for more than one user? Like can I dump all of my and my wives music onto the TC then make both our iTunes directories that folder?

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By: Blaine

Blaine — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:21:49 +0000

I have the media files on my TC. I can access Shared movies and photos on my AppleTv but, can not access my music. Have consoladated them /share marked and every other thing but still no music…ideas???
The itunes is on a PC serving as a home server of sorts.

If I access my MBP from A Tv i can use all three movies, photos and music. But I want the family to have access when I travel.

By: GJD

GJD — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:13:05 +0000

To answer the questions from Blaine and Chris, both AppleTV and AirTunes require access to an iTunes library in order tosync/stream content. Although the media files themselves can exist on an TimeCapsule/network drive, as things stand, the iTunes library itself must be open on a networked computer before either the AppleTV or the AirTunes device can access the media files. We’ll just have to cross our fingers and hope Apple brings out some form of advanced ‘iTunes media server’, allowing passive streaming and syncing of media files to any networked device.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:54:55 +0000

This is all really useful! I wonder if someone might help answer a question…

I currently use AirTunes to play music from my MacBook Pro. I’d like to use a setup like this to play music stored on a Time Capsule on my stereo via AirTunes. However, it seems that the only way I could do this is to continue to play it through my MBP; the pain about that is that it requires the MBP to be open. Is there any way to circumvent the MBP? Perhaps by controlling it using the iPhone remote app?

Thanks in advance!

By: Blaine

Blaine — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:22:36 +0000

to make this a bit clearer…I want to use the tc as the source not my mbp. If it needs itunes then I want the xp to be used so the system can be used all the time not just when I’m on the lan.
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By: Blaine

Blaine — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:10:35 +0000

I have a mixedture of mbp & xp desk computers on my lan. I have a TC 1 tb, Apple TV and want to store movies on the tc and access them via appleTV at home and…thru SlingBox while traveling. I created a file on the TC and placed movies in there…but appleTV won’t access them…it uses itunes on my mbp. I tried to redirect the xp machines itunes and it does not see the TC on the lan.
Any ideas?

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By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:40:56 +0000

iTunes works swell. iPhoto is nearly impossible to work with.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:10:59 +0000

I also created this set up for my iTunes library. One thing I can’t figure out though is increasing the download speeds. Downloading a movie from iTunes store is slow slow, especially with wireless security on. How do I solve this without turning off wireless security and even with it off it’s slower then my older router was?