Play from shared library

[Marek Karczewski]

LS,

First of all; thank you for fluke for mac. I enjoy using it.

Problem: I have 2 accounts on my mac. On account 1 I import flacs and
they play fine. I share my library.
When I log into the second account I can see my shared library and the
flacs inside it.
Unfortunately iTunes won't play them.

Question: how can I make iTunes play flac's from a shared library?
Installing fluke on the other account did not help.

[Dmitry Kichenko]

In a nutshell, you can't. For the same reason iPods don't support
flacs, and that you can't burn them or listen to them through an
Airport Express. It's not a native iTunes format.

D

On 2010-09-23, at 9:42 AM, Marek Karczewski

[Marek Karczewski]

Hi Dima,

iTunes can be tricked to play a flac obviously.
How come the version where the flacs are imported into the library can
play the files,
but another instance of iTunes can not?

What does the import script do to iTunes and / or the files so
playback becomes possible?
Can't we use the same 'trick' on another instance of iTunes so it can
play from a shared library?

I can't imagine the problem is due to the physical location of the
files?

Best greetings,
Marek

On Sep 23, 4:28 pm, Dmitry Kichenko <dmitrykiche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In a nutshell, you can't. For the same reason iPods don't support
> flacs, and that you can't burn them or listen to them through an
> Airport Express. It's not a native iTunes format.
>
> D
>
> On 2010-09-23, at 9:42 AM, Marek Karczewski
>

[Dmitry Kichenko]

I'm not a 100% certain but I don't think that when you play from a
shared library iTunes sees the files as local. I.e. I'm not sure the
files are seen as they are on a local hard disk.

The only thing done to the files is their "finder file type" is set to
"oggs" which enables us to use the xiph.org decoding library. That
flag is only set once, so any instance of iTunes can play back the
file afterwards. I don't know enough about how shared libraries work
but I'm guessing it never sees that flag an doesn't know what to do
with the stream of FLAC encoded data.

D

On 2010-09-23, at 12:44 PM, Marek Karczewski

[Marek Karczewski]

iTunes shows the files in the shared library. When looking at the file
info, the file is shown to be a quicktime movie.
You can click on it, even move the slider, but iTunes won't open the
movie playback window.

On Sep 23, 6:51 pm, Dmitry Kichenko <dmitrykiche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not a 100% certain but I don't think that when you play from a
> shared library iTunes sees the files as local. I.e. I'm not sure the
> files are seen as they are on a local hard disk.
>
> The only thing done to the files is their "finder file type" is set to
> "oggs" which enables us to use the xiph.org decoding library. That
> flag is only set once, so any instance of iTunes can play back the
> file afterwards. I don't know enough about how shared libraries work
> but I'm guessing it never sees that flag an doesn't know what to do
> with the stream of FLAC encoded data.
>
> D
>
> On 2010-09-23, at 12:44 PM, Marek Karczewski
>