Hdx and itunes (mac) supplement, Introduction, 1 moving music to the user account public folder – Naim Audio HDX User Manual

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HDX and iTunes (Mac) Supplement

Introduction

This document is intended to help users in making an iTunes library on an Apple
Macintosh computer visible to Naim and NaimNet hard disk player and music server
products (HDX, NS01, NS02 and NS03). The document describes the following steps:

1. Moving music to the user account public folder.

2. Setting up the shared folder and user permissions.

3. Specifying the Windows workgroup name.

4. Switching on Windows Sharing.

Note:

The Naim HDX and NaimNet server products use a version of the Microsoft Windows

operating system internally, so for an Apple Macintosh computer running Mac OS X to share
data, the Mac’s sharing preferences must be specifically set up to be compatible with Windows.

5. Confirming that the share is working.

Note:

The procedures described in this manual are congruent with Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7

and iTunes 8.2.1. The procedures for alternative software versions may differ slightly.

Note:

Reference to the HDX throughout this document should be taken also to include the

NaimNet NS01, NS02 and NS03 music servers.

1 Moving music to the user account public folder

For your iTunes music to be visible to an HDX you need to set the Mac to broadcast the
music as a SMB (Samba) drive. In order to do this, the music must be located in the public
folder under your user name.

First you must ensure that the

Keep iTunes Music folder organized

option is checked in the

iTunes Preferences:

From the iTunes menu, choose

Preferences.

In the resulting window, click the

Advanced

button.

Select the

Keep iTunes Music folder organized

check box.

Click

Apple Macintosh, Mac, OS X, and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the
U.S. and other countries. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.