I have small aspirations.
I do not like piracy: every single song I have has been dutifully purchased and at a little less than 4,000, my collection is really not that large.I am also a little fetishist, so I buy CDs and do my own ripping at the best bitrate allowed by software, so the 4,000 songs make for about 30 GB of music.
All I want to do with this music is the following
- store it on my NAS, so it’s backed up
- sync my various devices (4 iPods, one iPhone, one iPad) to all or part of it
- play it from any computer in my network
Not too difficult, right?
Except wrestling control of my music from evil iTunes ain’t so easy, courtesy of the many ways Apple locks you up (auto syncs being just one). I am now attempting to regain control over music I have lawfully acquired using Sharepod, we’ll see how it goes.




