![]() Don't put blind trust in any of Apple's cloud services, and always maintain your own backups-I learned that lesson especially back in the. My music and audio track needs are met well enough by Apple's iCloud Music Library-I'm not some super audiophile nut, but I do have at least a few thousand songs that aren't part of 'Apple Music' I'm loathe to lose. ![]() And I'd like to make sure I can easily browse all that content on my iPad and Apple TV, at a minimum. So I was looking at my options for a media library-in aggregate, I need it to serve up hundreds of movies, and potentially thousands of TV show episodes. ![]() But it's been unsupported by Apple for a few years, and besides, I have a new ASUSTOR Lockerstor 4 with 16 TB of always-online NAS storage! and it's still running strong, with an upgraded 20 TB of total storage space. I have a 2010 Mac mini (see above) that's acted as my de-facto media library/NAS for over a decade. The writing's been on the wall for a few years, especially after the split from iTunes to "Music" and "TV" apps, and while I tested out Plex a few years back, I never really considered switching to another home media library system, mostly due to laziness. To make that library accessible, I've always used iTunes and the iTunes Shared Library functionality that-while it still exists today-seems to be on life support, in kind of a "we still support it because the code is there" state. Since 2008, I've ripped every DVD and Blu-Ray I bought to my Mac, with a collection of SD and HD media totaling around 2 TB today.
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