16th
2007
Bandwagon Deconstructed IV: Setting up iTunes as online central server
One of Bandwagon’s main objectives besides backup and syncing is the ability to centralize all of your iTunes items on your online storage. This allows customers with multiple Macs and multiple iTunes libraries to “share + sync”.
Example: My wife has an iBook. My dad has an iMac. I have a PowerBook. We all have different libraries and we all recommend music to each other. With bandwagon installed on all 3 Macs, I can search for what is on my wife’s and on my dad’s Macs and download what songs I want. Under DIY+, I will be able to sync playlists among all Macs. From their perspective, they will be able to search what I have.
All of this runs seemlessly in the background and doesn’t take additional setup or work. You just install Bandwagon and it’s all there. Btw, my wife and I are currently in Manila, Philippines and my dad resides in Silicon Valley.
The downside (as of the moment) is we only allow one Amazon S3 account for each Bandwagon account, which supports up to 5 Macs, which means that my wife and my dad would have to use my S3 account as well.
If you are in a similar situation, Bandwagon provides a pain-less and simple solution.
