ITunes and LaCie Big Ethernet Disk -- Media Server

I have LaCie Big Ethernet Disk (1TB). The drive has a feature called Media Server, you setup a directory copy over your music, photos, and videos. The drive shares your music via UPaP, it shows up in iTunes as a shared music directory. The problem I'm having is I see the drive in iTunes under SHARED, but none of the music files are listed. My files are mixture of MP3, AAC and Apple Music Store Files. So far I've tried these things:
- toggling the shared checkbox on and off - no luck.
- Created a new iTunes Library - no luck.
- Created a new share directory on the drive - no luck.
I've contacted LaCie tech support which were not very helpful. They think its an iTunes problem. Does anyone have any suggestions, things to try, anything?
Thanks - CH

The protocol itunes uses for it's shared libraries is daap, I believe. Depending on how large your library is, it may take quite a while for the server to index the library you are trying to share. It also may choke on files with unconventional characters in their names or for other reasons. my best advice to you would be to try sharing a different folder containing a few music files and see if you can get that to work. Once you know it works correctly you can start checking to see if there are certain files that are causing it to fail, or if your just not waiting long enough for the server to index your music folder.

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