iTunes on External drive connect remote (over WAN)

[asggold]

Ok! There are many articles out there about how to run iTunes from an external drive and/or NAS drive. However, what none of them seem to cover is the way you can connect to that external/NAS drive from outside your home network.

Here is the situation I am trying to solve for:
I have a MacBook Air with a 500 GIG HD and my iTunes library itself is around 500 GIG. I have moved the entire iTunes library to an external drive but hate the fact that I need to carry that drive around with me all the time just to use iTunes. I also have a WD My Cloud drive which I tried to put the library on. The issue there was the connection when outside my LAN. I tried connecting over SSH and FTP using CloudMount. I can see all the files but the iTunes library file will not run. I am also using a DDNS site to route incoming requests to the drive. Again, all that works to SEE the files but will not let you RUN the iTunes library file itself. So, I am trying to figure out the easiest way to do this where I can run iTunes over an external/NAS Drive and connect and run iTunes from ANYWHERE (with international access).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[asggold]

Can't believe there is no one out there who knows how to get this to work?

Any recommendations on a better place to post in order to get a response?

 

[Tech198]

What about having stored on NAS/external drive, but update library in iTunes Prefences, Advanced to that point over connection ?

I know that works on the network, but i don't see why it wouldn't do that for outside as well, as long as u have connection to the NAS remotely, as a drive, u should be able to access the library.

 

[Gjwilly]

Does this help?
http://guides.macrumors.com/Using_Remote_File_Access_to_Save_Disk_Space_on_Your_MacBook_Air

 

[asggold]

What about having stored on NAS/external drive, but update library in iTunes Prefences, Advanced to that point over connection ?

I know that works on the network, but i don't see why it wouldn't do that for outside as well, as long as u have connection to the NAS remotely, as a drive, u should be able to access the library.

That is the problem I ran into. I could run from the NAS/External Drive (very slow but it worked) while on my LAN. However, when I tried to run from outside the local network it would not actually run the iTunes Library file using an FTP or SSH connection.
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Does this help?
http://guides.macrumors.com/Using_Remote_File_Access_to_Save_Disk_Space_on_Your_MacBook_Air

Yes, this article might help. Thanks! I know the "Back to my Mac" portion is not an option but the rest of the article might provide options to get the NAS running iTunes remotely.

 

[Gjwilly]

Let us know. I'd like to do the same thing eventually. Right now I've got iTunes on a NAS that I can access on my home network and then I've got Plex running so I can access the media away from home.

 

[asggold]

Let us know. I'd like to do the same thing eventually. Right now I've got iTunes on a NAS that I can access on my home network and then I've got Plex running so I can access the media away from home.

Unfortunately, the article you sent the link for seemed to require a Mac Server to set-up each option. Does not seem to work when connecting directly to the NAS/external Drive.

 

[McScooby]

afaik, & most probably could be wrong, but i'm sure it's down to the hard drive you are using as to how to access "your" tunes, iTunes will not link to a cloud/drive over the internet. Synology has ds audio/video, but iTunes does not use this, it is independent programmes. I thought maybe back to my mac, but would be useless as you have mb with you. - then again sounds like 'you're' a prime candidate for music!