I'm looking to buy a mac mini sometime in the near future to replace my Macbook Pro/VGA to TV setup to watch my shows and listen to music. I have a collection of music, TV shows, and moves on my MBP in iTunes, sorted in albums/seasons, etc. Here's what I want to do:
1) Have my itunes library on my MBP completely synced to the itunes library on the mini, playcounts, ratings, everything. I don't want to stream though; I want to be able to have my MBP asleep and still get to my content. Then when I wake my MBP up and open itunes (or whatever syncing program I use) the plays and ratings and that would automatically sync between the two.
2) *POSSIBLY* keep all my videos on the mini, in order to free up space on my MBP. However I still want my itunes music to sync, so this might not be possible. If it was, I would be able to just watch my movies/tv shows on the mini, and if I needed to take them with me on my MBP I would just copy them back to the other computer. Right now, my videos are lower-quality (probably 360p) HD videos, and I would like to instead get 720p but don't want to take up that much space on the MBP.
I have an ipod nano and a shuffle and am hopefully getting an iphone 4 soon, so I want to stick with itunes and itunes formats for media so I can sync it to my mobile devices. I'm sure I will get a handful of "Plex FTW" responses, but from what I can tell Plex doesn't allow syncing with itunes (ex. ratings and playcounts).
So basically I need something to sync music from one itunes library to a second library, without streaming. Any ideas?
Thanks!
1) Have my itunes library on my MBP completely synced to the itunes library on the mini, playcounts, ratings, everything. I don't want to stream though; I want to be able to have my MBP asleep and still get to my content. Then when I wake my MBP up and open itunes (or whatever syncing program I use) the plays and ratings and that would automatically sync between the two.
2) *POSSIBLY* keep all my videos on the mini, in order to free up space on my MBP. However I still want my itunes music to sync, so this might not be possible. If it was, I would be able to just watch my movies/tv shows on the mini, and if I needed to take them with me on my MBP I would just copy them back to the other computer. Right now, my videos are lower-quality (probably 360p) HD videos, and I would like to instead get 720p but don't want to take up that much space on the MBP.
I have an ipod nano and a shuffle and am hopefully getting an iphone 4 soon, so I want to stick with itunes and itunes formats for media so I can sync it to my mobile devices. I'm sure I will get a handful of "Plex FTW" responses, but from what I can tell Plex doesn't allow syncing with itunes (ex. ratings and playcounts).
So basically I need something to sync music from one itunes library to a second library, without streaming. Any ideas?
Thanks!