Author Topic: Best way to configure Musicbee with a NAS?  (Read 9006 times)

Ansem

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Hi everyone!
I have a NAS where I have stored all my music.
I want to use musicbee to listen to music on both computer, and I want Musicbee to be able to:
1) Manage my library
2) If I add a song from PC A, I want Musicbee on PC B to add it to his library too

What's the best way to do that? Should I use Musicbee portable or I can be able to install musicbee on both PC?

frankz

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https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=23076.msg134880#msg134880

Those are the basic steps I used (my main desktop computer acts as both a NAS and the computer where the library resides).  You'll adjust those basic steps for your particular needs.  You'll have a windows machine that's always on that holds the library, your NAS that holds the music files, and then as many remote instances as you want pointing to that library and those music files as you want.

If you want to have the library somewhere out on the internet rather than on a local machine, there's sort of a guide for using Dropbox here (http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Sharing_a_Library_over_a_Local_Area_Network_via_Dropbox/Homegroups) I think I based my method on that, adjusting it for my particular needs.
Last Edit: December 09, 2017, 02:24:26 PM by frankz

Ansem

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Thanks for the answer!
I have a few quesions since I'm using MB to manage all my files:
1) Can you manage songs from every PC or only from the main one?
2) when you add a new song will it be added to every MB Library?

frankz

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1. Yes - I have two computers pointed to the same library, and when you edit metadata or playlists or anything from one of them it edits the library directly so whatever accesses that library gets the updated information.

2. You only have one library that you share among all instances of MB