So far there is no jailbreak for the AppleTV 3rd gen available BUT unless you are in possession of an AppleTV 2nd gen you won’t be able to jailbreak. Why? Because with a jailbreak you could even do more than possibly just access your uPnP server. Pro: easy and uncomplicated – no additional hardware requiredĬon: keeping your iTunes library in sync with your NAS is a little tricky, but it should work Now just enable home sharing – et voilà – you should be able to stream music and video onto your AppleTV. You just need to keep your local iTunes library in sync or (the better way) directly link your iTunes library onto the NAS. Meaning that you have at least one computer running all the time. Let’s have a look at all those possibilities and see which solution you should choose and why.
#Apple server music library install#
take your good friend called iPad or iPhone and install a uPnP player on it – then simply use AirPlay to stream that content from your iOS-device to the AppleTV.jailbreak your AppleTV to make it able to read files from a uPnP server.This computer accesses the files on your NAS and turns them into a home share, accessible for your AppleTV. use a computer that works as a gateway between your NAS and your AppleTV.So I still want to buy an AppleTV 3rd gen, but how do I get this thing to stream videos and music files from my NAS? Basically you have the following options:
This device offers a uPnP media server and can share an iTunes library – but no home sharing. I do own a NAS (to be exact: it’s a Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive with 2 TB capacity). A shared iTunes library however can only be accessed via iTunes.
#Apple server music library mac#
So my idea was to just use a NAS ( network attached storage) for storing my files, but if this would work it would be way to easy 😀 Many NAS devices do have an integrated uPnP media server and/or an integrated shared iTunes Library but as far as I have found out none of both can be accessed by the AppleTV.Īfter introducing iTunes 11 Apple used something called “Home Sharing” (actually I don’t really know what’s the exact difference between a shared iTunes libaray and Home Sharing, but you know, it’s Apple). A computer or Mac that has home sharing enabled in iTunes can be accessed by any iOS device and any iTunes using the same Apple ID. Well to be honest: I was always thinking about buying an AppleTV but the fact that you can not store your videos and music on the device itself was always killing my plans about buying one of these things (at least for 2nd and 3rd gen).
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