HT1751 I need to set up iTunes to run on my local network, independent of the internet because of a bad internet connection.
I have Hughes Net, for internet. Due to this, iTunes in the cloud, does not operate for us. I need to put my music on a local drive, and create a network drive, to use iTunes, while at home. (I'm still not sure about how I'll handle the music on our iPhones). I have a current AirPort Extreme, (802.11ac), and I have a 64gb flash drive, as well as a 1.5TB external SATA drive, that can be used. I'd like to NOT have to keep the MacBook Pro powered on all the time, but would still like to play music, through/on my iPads and iPhones, while at home.
How can I set this up, to run, independent of the cruddy internet service, which won't allow me to stream a single song, without stopping to buffer, for multiple long periods, during one song?
itunes can share music over the network without an internet connection, but you will need a computer running itunes powered on to be able to share it (setup in itunes by going to file (windows) or itunes (mac) > preferences > sharing)
if you just want to setup a network attached storage drive for the network that holds all the music that would be done independently of itunes and you would need a compatible NAS drive (I don't believe the airport is technically a nas drive but you could ask that section of support communities as well https://discussions.apple.com/community/wireless/airport)
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HT4623 i need help setting up itunes on my iphone
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from there you will see your device; in this case your iphone.
You will see tabs along the top for music, movies and so on... go thru each tab and make sure you have the settings or your choice.
on the main tab near the bottom right you will see the sync button; click it and wait. -
i have backed up my iphone 5 and have a 5s I want to set up from that backup file. I have gone through the process once, and when I next connect the new AND the old phone to the mac and open itunes, restore or create new phone comes up not synch?? Tried starting the whole process over once but same result. Seems not to recognise the phone and just synch as it should. Help?
Hello CosK,
The following guide can step you through the process of using a backup of your iPhone 5 to transfer your content to your iPhone 5s.
Transfer content from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a new device
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109
Should one or both of your phones fail to appear in iTunes, the following article provides troublesooting steps that can assist.
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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We have just purchased a new home computer and need to set up I-Tunes for everyone in our family. Is that possible to do on one computer?
To have EVERYTHING as it is Now...
From your OLD computer...
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
Full Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
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I have successfully changed my apple account using my iphone. Can i now just plug my iphone into my pc using the itunes account in my husbands name (this used to be my apple id too) or do I need to set up a whole new itunes in my name and download all music etc to that from scratch...........i am not very technical so very basic answers would be appreciated!!
Hello erbim,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
The Apple ID you sign in with will allow you access to the purchases made on that ID.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
Using your Apple ID for Apple services
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895
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Need Help Setting up iTunes store...new account
I am trying to sign into my account in the latest version of iTunes which is new on my Hard drive (had to erase the HD because of some issues with it) Anyway, iTunes wants me to add credit card information for purchases. I have been buying pre paid cards and would rather continue doing this. So how can I get around putting my CC info in? It won't let me get pass that step in the setting up the account process.When I click sign in and put my info in it says that my information has never accessed the music store and wants me to register. The first screen that comes up is the Credit Card screen.
Thanks!Robert Chatfield wrote:
I am trying to help my kids set up their own iTunes accounts so we don't have the constant fight over who has how many songs left. I want the accounts to only be used when they have credit from gift cards. Is there a way to set up the account with linking my PayPal or credit card? They have their own email accounts so that will not be a problem. Thanks
You can create gift card accounts that do not involve entering any other payment information. Just get them a gift card and redeem them before opening up an account for them. -
When I click on the Music tab on my Apple TV 2, a message tells me I have to set up iTunes Match to stream music from my iTunes library on my iMac. I don't want to set up and pay for iTunes Match. How can I get back to the pre-Match system which let me just use home sharing to stream music from computer to Aple TV
Ditto.
You need to look for your itunes library under Computers and select it, then music.
Music column is for web based content not local content, just to confuse everyone.
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my kids set up itune account on my computer years ago and no one remembers the password. They started new accounts on their macs. I want to start my own itunes account, but I would like to get some of the music off this account. Any suggestions?
The easiest way would probably be to recover the data of the old account and change it to match your current info, after that you can continue to use the account without any problems. To recover your account go to: Apple - My Apple ID
Alternatively if you want to start a new account do it and then contact iTunes support to see if the y can transfer your purchases (I know of cases on which they have done it) -
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449
This article will help you.
1. Yes, you can trash the original folder. If you have a large media library, then yes you should free up a good chunk of space. However, you must also empty the trash. You can't just leave it in the trash or it will take up space.
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Setting up a VoIP extension on a local network.
With the help of the experts on this board I have successfully set up a VoIP phone extension on our private network. The questions & answers can be viewed at. http://forums.linksys.com/linksys/board/message?board.id=VoIP_Adapters&thread.id=3197 . For the benefit of anyone attempting a similar project, here is the completed setup.
This installation is in a small motel in Te Anau, on New Zealand’s South island. The manager lives off site, and needs to be able to receive calls at night, and also transfer incoming calls to guest’s extensions through the hotels PBX. This necessitates a direct link to the PBX, rather than simply diverting the phone. One solution would have been to lease a circuit from the local Telco, but in NZ, this is very expensive, so another solution was sought. Fortunately there was an established wireless data link between the hotel and the managers residence, so VoIP seemed the obvious choice.
The equipment used is a Linksys SPA3102 connected to an extension on the PBX, and a Linksys PAP2 at the remote end. The setup would work equally well if connected to a phone line, rather than the PBX.
I’ll start the setup with the SPA3102.
Connect the POTS line to the LINE port, and your switch/router to the INTERNET port. In my setup the Ethernet port is not used. Plug a standard phone into the Phone port. This is useful for testing and setting up. It’s not needed afterwards, unless you want a local phone.
Open your web browser, and type the adaptor IP into the address bar. Go to Admin, and Advanced Settings.
ROUTER SETUP
WAN Setup Tab:
Connection type: Static IP.
Static IP Settings: The Network address on your local network (192.168.x.x)
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
LAN Setup Tab:
LAN IP address: This is automatically selected to be on a different sub net from the WAN. Unless it conflicts with another address on your system you shouldn’t change it.
Enable DHCP: No
(Save these settings.)
VOICE SETUP
System Tab: No Changes
SIP Tab: No Changes
Provisioning Tab: No Changes
Regional Tab: Mostly this sets the dial tones etc to match your local service. Unless you need them to be the same this shouldn’t need any changes
The Hook Flash Timer Min & Max: should be set to the local values. The Defaults (.1 and .9) are OK for North America. Australia and New Zealand use .07 & .13. If you have trouble sending a hook flash, check these values against the local settings.
DTMF playback level should be greater than zero. (I used 3)
(Save these settings)
Line 1 Tab:
I don’t use Line 1 except for testing. During setup the line should be enabled. After the system is running OK, it can be disabled
Line enabled yes
SIP port 5060
Proxies are not used in this setup.
Register: No
Make call without reg: yes
Answer call without reg: yes
User ID: 10? (you can use any number)
Line 1 Tabupplementary services.
Change Call waiting, 3 way Conf, and 3 way call, to no. (These interfere with sending a hook flash)
Hook Flash Tx method: AVT
(save these settings)
PSTN Line Tab
Line enable: yes
SIP Port 5061 (default)
Proxy: proxies are not used.
Register: no
Make call w/o reg yes
Answer call w/o reg yes
Display name: anything you like (VoIP gateway?)
User ID: leave blank
User password: leave blank
Use auth ID: no
Dial Plan 1: (<:*>S0). Switches to the outside line when * received.
Dial Plan 2: (<:[email protected]:5060>S0). 11 is the user ID on the PAP2
VoIP to PSTN enable: yes
VoIP caller default DP: 1
One stage Dialing: no
VoIP users & Passwords.
User 1 ID: 11. User1 DP: 1
User 2 ID: 21 User 2 DP: 1
User 3 ID 22 User 3 DP: 1
(These are the line numbers of additional PAP2’s on our system)
PSTN to VOIP Gateway enable: yes
PSTN Caller ID none
PSTN Caller Default DP: 2
Detect PSTN long silence yes
Detect VoIP long silence yes
Detect Disconnect tone yes
VoIP answer delay 0
PSTN Answer delay 0
PSTN to VoIP gain (Set these to adjust
VoIP to PSTN gain the speech volume)
Line in Use voltage: This should be set midway between the On Hook and Off Hook voltages, which you get from the Info screen. Most public phones are 47v on hook, and 7v off hook, so the setting should be 27v. My PBX is 27v on hook, and 7v off hook, so my setting is 17v. To read this, go to the Info screen and check the Line Voltage, then go Off hook (make a call), click the reload button on your browser, and check the line voltage again.
(save these settings)
This completes the setting up of the SPA3102.
Now for the setup of the PAP2.
Open your web browser, and type the PAP2 IP into the address bar. Go to Admin, and Advanced Settings.
System tab:
DHCP no
Static IP 192.168.x.x (same sub-net as your network. Different adaptor number)
Net Mask 255.255.255.0
(save these settings)
SIP Tab: no changes.
Provisioning Tab: no Changes
Regional Tab.
Hook Flash Min & Max: change to your local settings if required.
(save these settings)
Line 1 & Line 2 Tabs.
Whether you use Line 2 depends on whether you want to have 2 phones on the PAP2. All calls from the PSTN line of the SPA3102 will go to Line 1 of the PAP2 as per Dial Plan 2 on the SPA
Line enable yes
SIP port 5060 (line 1) & 5061 (line 2)
Proxy Proxies are not used.
Register no
Make call w/o reg yes
Answer call w/o reg yes
Display name: anything you like
User ID 11 (line 1) & 12 (line 2)
(These are used to identify each line on the system)
Call waiting: no
3 way conf: no
3 way call: no
DTMF Tx method: AVT
Dial Plan: This is the dial plan I use on line 1.
(<:192.168.4.10:5061>S3|21S0<:@192.168.4.9:5060>|22S0<:@192.168.4.9:5061>)
You will have to modify it for use on other lines, or other adaptors, and the IP addresses must match your system IP addresses. Here is an explanation.
192.168.4.10:50613 All my adaptors are on subnet 4. 10 is the number of the SPA3102, and 5061 is the SIP port mapped to the PSTN line. If the handset is lifted, and no numbers are dialed the call will be transferred to the PSTN line after 3 seconds, and you will hear the outside dial tone. If within 3 seconds you dial either 21, or 22, the phone on either line 1, SIP port 5060, or Line 2, SIP port 5061, on adaptor 9 will ring. (If you only have one PAP2 then you will only need the first section of this dial plan.)
Enable IP Dialing: yes
(save these settings).
User 1 and User 2 tabs: no changes
That just about does it. All incoming calls from outside are received by the PBX, and after hours are sent to the extension connected to the SPA3102, which rings the phone on the remote PAP2 in the manager’s house. If the call is for a guest we can press the recall button (hook flash), dial the guest’s extension number, and transfer the call when they answer. As an added bonus we have a second PAP2 elsewhere on the network, and we can call between the 3 adaptors. All 3 adaptors have access to an outside line, though the PBX. I’m fairly sure it would also work through a VPN, which would mean we could take a VoIP phone anywhere in the world, and still be virtually ‘On site". I don’t know if that is a good thing or not.Hi HW,
The PBX is a Panasonic TA308. There is no special interface to the PBX, the line port on the SPA3102 is simply plugged into an extension, like another phone. Anyone calling that extension will have the call routed through the SPA & PAP2 to the remote phone.
The whole setup is totally seamless, & transparent to the user. As we are on a local network there is virtually no latency. There is a slight tendancy to echo, but the echo suppression mostly takes care of that.
THis has been a good exercise, and once I got my head around what I was trying to do, with your help, it was pretty easy. I think the hook flash timing would be the thing which gives most users a problem, as it seems to vary widely around the world. I was surprised at the difference between the US and NZ (.1 & .9 to .07 & .13). There didn't seem to be any other critical differences.
Now I am the local expert on VoIP "In the Kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is King." -
Itunes not seeing anything on local network
Dear all, I will start by outlining how the problem occured.
Last night I had my laptop connected to my router via ethernet (and unknown to me via wifi too as the laptop automatically turns on the wifi card sometimes when it gets power). I was using my ipod touch to control itunes when I noticed thw wifi card was on. I turned off the wifi card switch and now my itunes cannot see anything on the local network (including my ipod touch remote and other peoples itunes shares). This problem occurs when the laptop is connected to the router by wifi or ethernet cable, and I am sure that the ipod touch is connected to the same network as the laptop. Any ideas?
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Two issues. The first one is that when I upload some music cd's into my itunes library, itunes wants to place the songs in a compilations folder. Sometimes this occurs even with a 2 or 3 cd set. One CD will be filed under the artists name and the disc 2 may be filed in the compilations folder and listed by the name of the cd and not the artist.
2nd issue is that sometimes cd's are similiar, but with different artists such as 20th century Hits of Neil Young. The CD is filed in the compilations folder. Than I upload the 20th century Hits of Tanya Tucker and the songs go into the same folder with Neil Young. The don't even mix as one is county and the other is rock.
I have moved these CD's out of the compilations folder and moved them in with the other cd's by the same artist, but Itunes keeps moving them back into the compilations folder.
Is there a fixGenerally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix things.
For compilations that aren't, select all tracks, Get Info, and on the option tab set Part of a Compilation to No. If it already says No tick the box alongside, then click OK.
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Need Help setting up a Fully-Accessible External Harddrive on Network.
Alright Ladies and Gentlmen of the Apple Support Forums,
I'm fairly new to servers in general - but I thought I'd be able to figure this one out on my own...I guess I was wrong
I am the tech head of a video studio that needs to share a single 12 TB external 3.0 drive on the entire network. I want all to be able to read, write, and delete as easy as possible.
Here's what I have:
- 20mb/s UP and 20 mb/s DOWN coming from Northstate into my modem.
- I have my modem connected to my new Airport Express.
- I have connected my airport express to my Mac Mini server (new).
- I also have it connected to a 24 port netgear switch.
- My switch is connected to about 11 stations across the studio.
- My LaCie 12TB drive is connected via USB 3.0 to the mac mini and is available to view in the "shared" finder window for all computers. In other words, everyone CAN see it.
- I have set everyone up with their own username and password to connect to the server. I have set permissions through the server (file sharing) to allow all users to Read & Write to the external Harddrive.
My problem:
It seems as though any file or folder created by one computer is not accessable by another computer - and vice versa. One user has NO permission to write or copy a file into a folder that another user has created on the external drive.
My needs:
I really want this to work freely. I want all users to be able to write, read, and delete any file or folder on the External HDD through the network. I don't want to have to set every folder created on the external to sharing or have to manage permissions at all.
Ladies and Gentlemen! What am I doing wrong?!
Message was edited by: IndianaPwnsUnderlying the Mac OS is unix. By default when a file or folder is created, it is owned by that user. Other users don't have read/write permissions.
I suggest reading a bit about unix permissions work.
Unix assigns permissions for 3 categories for each file and folder. Self, group, and other (think of other like the permissions you would want a complete stranger to have).
If all your users are members of the same group, you can use unix permissions to allow anyone in the group to have r/w permissions. You'd first need to define a group, and then assign all the users to that group.
Lastly, you'd want to associate all the existing files you already have to that group.
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