Took the plunge..Apple TV & Apple Time Capsule..Help

Hi

You can get i-tunes to do the work for you.  The insructions can be found here

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-li...

Can you get a refund on the Time Capsule? It's not much use as general purpose NAS and it's not able to stream to Express\Apple TV by itself since it doen't run iTunes. You may do better with a Mac mini.

Had a quick look and this looks idiot proof!!  Will give it a try in the morning with a sore head and a Jeigger shot for a brain!!

Will let you know how i get on!!

A very happy Hogmannay from me!!

Not sure if i can (purchased in PC World).  Did look at the Mac Mini, whole point was to get wifi router in lounge again- with the bonus of 2tb of hard drive  There is a NAS feature on it but needs configuring...  Was hoping to access from @tv though

Happy New Year!!

What about using the iTunes match service. Upload all your music to iCloud, then use the Remote app on your iPad, to play all your music from the cloud. 

The only issue with this is the quality of the MP3's, if thats an issue for you. A friend has it set up and working, and but for a second or two of buffering for the first track, he says it works and sounds excellent.

Then if you can return the time capsule, buy a cheaper NAS drive and spend the change on 

What if like me you have over 200Gb of music, plus 25Gb of movies and 37Gb of photos?

Apple haven't really considered enthusiasts for the Cloud. I will be sticking with my upgraded ATV1 thnks very much.

Thanks for the comments, I am trying to create a separate iTunes folder right now just copying from MacBook to tc right now. This is possible so in effect a nas with separate folder that the @tv will see. So will get a photo folder an iTunes folder and a movies folder, which should be seen by my @tv with my MacBook switched on running iTunes.....CORRECT or am I wrong??

I am getting increasingly worried that the time capsule was the wrong option. Should I have gone for a synology nas? If so what would the difference be?
Surely the ability to set folders on the time capsule is the same as "mapping a hard drive"

Copying about half way through it's 47gb apple lossless files....

Am i missing something here???

Thanks
John

Davie, no doubt more will follow, we have to remember cloud services are still in their infancy. I'm with you fella, I'm sticking with my ATV1 with attached HDD, the idea of leaving a computer on constantly irks me, both in a usability sense and financially. 

John, as far as I see it, the Time Capsule, is really the perfect companion to Time Machine on your Mac. Personally I prefer to back up what I want and to where I want it, rather than be ring fenced by Apples system. Maybe the ATV jailbreak would be your answer. I use it to play movies on my ATV1 from my NAS, as the conversion then transfer to my ATV is a bit of a drag, to get the right, working format. 

With jailbreak you could use it for XBMC, which is a truly excellent media manager and player. IF (big IF) XBMC, could then see your time capsule folders, you could easily stream music and movies and a whole lot more to the ATV2. As it stands, you will still always need you MacBook on to access your files through your iTunes library. 

So does that mean there is no way for @tv can see my itunes on the tc??  I think i have managed to create itunes folder on the time capsule.  I think it is still under the data file in the 1st checkbox on the tc.

No at current you need something like a PC or Mac running iTunes, though this might change in the future.

You can flash the ATV then it will read straight from the TC but it is a bit daughting for people who have never flashed stuff before.

I'm not a Mac user and I'm only reading this thread because I'm bored but my understanding of the TC is that it is a backup device, NOT a NAS device and as such isn't designed to share out its contents in the way a NAS would, so yes I think you've bought the wrong device.

The TC can be used in the same way as a nas drive but it's just wireless, many partition the hdd for backing up and there own files, the problem is the costs of purchasing more than one TC starts to get expensive and you can get a lot more nas for your money

Ive always felt TC was a bit overpriced, airport extreme with a hd caddy plugged in via the handy USB slot is much better value and infinitely more upgrade able.  TC is pretty though

Does this mean I cannot divide the content of the tc into folders like say music, photos,movies etc? If so this product does seem to be very limited... I really should have done a bit more research... So if this did my backups and I really wanted to be able to stream movies, music etc then a single bay nas drive would be the way to go then?

It seems crazy that the tc cannot be divided into smart folders and the content you want to access easily achievable... So in an office environment, the RCA content is only available as 1 folder in my case- data??

Seems nuts. Or am I missing something??