OK, here is the situation. I have a 1st gen. ATV with ATV Flash installed sitting in the closet. I regularly use ATV2. I want to move my entire itunes library off of my two computers onto an external hard drive that will be my media player. I realize there is a lot of information about media players but I haven't seen my specific question answered:
If I enable the USB port on the old ATV and plug that into an external media player that has my entire itunes library loaded, will/can ATV2 read from that itunes library located on the atv1/external hd combo unit? I think with home sharing and the new iCloud this will be a perfect way to clean up space and still have access to my content.
I tried a similar fix a few years ago by creating a partition on my time capsule, the only problem was I had to type my password in every time I wanted to access the content and it didn't stream to atv (1 at the time) as a result.
Will my idea work? Will it work seamlessly? Thanks for your thoughts.
regards
M Deming
If I enable the USB port on the old ATV and plug that into an external media player that has my entire itunes library loaded, will/can ATV2 read from that itunes library located on the atv1/external hd combo unit? I think with home sharing and the new iCloud this will be a perfect way to clean up space and still have access to my content.
I tried a similar fix a few years ago by creating a partition on my time capsule, the only problem was I had to type my password in every time I wanted to access the content and it didn't stream to atv (1 at the time) as a result.
Will my idea work? Will it work seamlessly? Thanks for your thoughts.
regards
M Deming