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Hi,
I am sharing 80GB of music on a SMB share on my Mac upstairs with XMBC running on Windows PC downstairs.
Everytime I run XBMC it loads up all the information for the music (which takes hours). Is there anyway to save this info, cache it or is it necessary for it to load all this information?
Or better yet is there a way to link XBMC to my iTunes library? I used to do this with Plex.
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Okay I'll turn off autoupdate. How do I map a drive? I thought SMB was the only way to share Mac files with a Windows PC?
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Thanks. Am sharing via a router wireless N. So do I need to do
Anything on my Mac ie move files or partition? Or do I just point te mapped drive at my os x media folder?
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No need to do anything at your MAC.
Just map the drive at your Windows PC (at stated in the link I included in my last posting).
Then use the resulting drive letter as the media source in XBMC.
Have you checked the quality of your WLAN connection?
Even it is a "N" connection I believe that is your bottle neck.
Any chance to connect via cable? Maybe DLAN is the answer.
Actual DLAN devices can establish 200 MBIT connections (well they achieve that speed only on paper, but usually they are fast enough for even transferring HD video )
Cheers,
Walter
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Hi,
Thanks for your advice a while back. I got the drive set up okay. However, I sometimes notice that XBMC can't access this mapped drive. It's as if the PC is asleep upstairs but I know it's not as XMBC can always access my SMB share.
Any ideas how come?