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iHomeServer Management Console User Interface
iHomeServer™ provides two complementary ways of viewing your media collection - "Watch Folder View" and "iTunes View".
Watch Folders (click here for furher information) are areas of your file system that iHomeServer will monitor for new/changed media that will be automatically added/updated in iTunes. The Watch Folder view presents the Watch Folders and allows you to drill-down into them to see the underlying folders and files that are being indexed by iHomeServer. You can manage the files from this view by right-clicking to bring up a popup menu that allows you to play the media, modify its metadata, add it to a playlist, delete it from iTunes and other key functions.
The second way of viewing your media collection is called 'iTunes View'. iTunes View presents your iTunes library in a tree structure similar to the native iTunes interface. Clicking on an iTunes library or playlist will bring up the tracks within that library or playlist. As with Watch Folders, right-clicking a track brings up an iHomeServer popup menu that allows you to play and manage the tracks.
The two views work together to give you great control over your iTunes library from the iHomeServer Management Console. Both views are accessible via the tabs in the top-left corner of the Main User interface shown below:
Click the 'iTunes View' tab to view your media using an iTunes library / playlist view. Please click this link for further information on the iTunes View
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The Library Sync tab gives you quick access to the status of any library synchronisation subscriptions belonging to this instance of iHomeServer. Please click here for further information on the Library Sync tab
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The Conversions Tab gives you a list of all Handbrake conversions being processed by iHomeServer - either those in progress, failed or completed. Please click here for further information on the Conversions Tab.
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The iTunes Player Control allows you to control the currently playing track within iTunes. Please click this link for further information about the iTunes Player Control.
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iHomeServer will display the current status of the iHomeServer application in the bottom left-hand corner of the main window. Additionally, a progress bar will be displayed for long running operations such as indexing files.
Possible statuses include:
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The current status of iTunes is shown in the bottom right hand corner of the main window. The pane will show whether iTunes is starting up, running or is stopped. You can start and stop iTunes using the Start / Stop iTunes button described next.
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Please see 'Starting and Stopping iTunes' for further information.
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The top right hand corner of the iHomeServer Management Console displays the version of iHomeServer you are currently running. Please provide this if you raise any support calls.
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