You may want to take this in to consideration when choosing a DNLA package for your Mac.īefore I get on to DNLA I would say that DNLA is old, poorly supported, poorly featured and I would advise if possible to avoid it. So if you have a mixture of DNLA clients which do not all support the same format it can convert the files for those that need it. UPnP software includes the ability to 'transcode' video and/or audio files from one format to another. Not really what you wanted to hear, I imagine, but I hope that helps.Some DNLA software aka. Or buy a very small Atom-based PC that runs Windows, etc. You can also use the last version of iTunes to run on Windows XP, and on newer NAS products, run an XP virtual machine on the NAS itself.
For Macs, I’d suggest your own workstation, but with the main window closed and iTunes left otherwise running, for very easy access. This probably means running it on a physical machine. You could arrange for people to share the media files on the storage, and maybe even add it to the iTunes library using iTunes’ “Automatically Add to iTunes” folder, but you’d still need to update the one copy of iTunes to consolidate such media or make other changes to the library. This too has a drawback: iTunes isn’t designed for multiple users to use it simultaneously, and it relies on a database which is exclusively locked while iTunes is running. The trick here is that iTunes can run on any physical or virtual machine, and yet still be configured to access your Raspberry Pie’s storage, thus keeping your data centralised, but not on the machine that runs iTunes. And yes you can easily set up the Apple ID required. The other option, of course, is to surrender to Apple’s whim and run a copy of iTunes, somewhere. I don’t know what the current state of the art is in AirPlay-compatible media servers for Linux, but needless to say, using something like Plex directly is only possible with the newer Apple TV, so you need to arrange for whichever one you choose to use AirPlay. This is actually what some NAS products do to work around this deficiency. You have to use some alternative control plane, like a web interface. If you can run something like forked-daapd that will stream to your Apple TV on demand, you could tell your Pie to stream the music that you selected.
You have two options to pursue, but neither really quite does what you want. Hence, you can’t get to your FairPlay-protected content on any device, or any content on Apple TV 3. And iTunes won’t run on a Raspberry Pie (or any NAS). Your problem is that Apple TV 3 has no means to stream media locally from anything that isn’t iTunes. As with most things iTunes, the answer is “No”.
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