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itunes / apple tv conundrum

  • 07-01-2012 1:06pm
    #1
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭


    A little help here please.
    Santy brought me apple tv for Christmas and i have it working perfectly but i have one related issue.
    I have an external hard drive laden with a few hundred movies which i want to watch via Apple TV but i dont want to clog up my imacs hard drive by dumping them all into itunes. How do i make these accesable to itunes whilst keeping them solely on the external drive?
    I would have thought this would be simple but it has me stumped.


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  • #2
    Lovephones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭Lovephones


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    A little help here please.
    Santy brought me apple tv for Christmas and i have it working perfectly but i have one related issue.
    I have an external hard drive laden with a few hundred movies which i want to watch via Apple TV but i dont want to clog up my imacs hard drive by dumping them all into itunes. How do i make these accesable to itunes whilst keeping them solely on the external drive?
    I would have thought this would be simple but it has me stumped.

    Youll need to jailbreak the apple tv to do this and install xbmc


  • #3
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Lovephones wrote: »
    Youll need to jailbreak the apple tv to do this and install xbmc

    Im not sure I do. What im trying to do is at the imac end of the link. is it possible to 'reference' the external hard drive data via itunes rather than actually importing it into the library on the mac drive?


  • #4
    fox007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭fox007


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Lovephones wrote: »
    Youll need to jailbreak the apple tv to do this and install xbmc

    Im not sure I do. What im trying to do is at the imac end of the link. is it possible to 'reference' the external hard drive data via itunes rather than actually importing it into the library on the mac drive?

    Can you not just set up an iTunes with in the external hard drive put all the movies there then stream from the iTunes in hdd via the iMac to apple tv?


  • #5
    greglo23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭greglo23


    Press alt and click iTunes which gives you a window which allows you to select a new iTunes library and off you go !!


  • #6
    Dermoth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Dermoth


    Greglo is spot on. Add the external drive as an iTunes library and presuming they are mp4s then you can see them from iTunes and from apple tv.


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