Escient MP-150 manual Integrating with iTunes and iPod

Mac OS X Integration WD029-1-1 2/24/2005

Integrating with iTunes and iPod

FireBall supports iTunes and iPod integration through the FireBall Network File Sharing feature described above. Once your Mac is connected to your FireBall over the network, you can access FireBall’s music and use it from iTunes and sync it with your iPod.

Please read the section Connecting to your FireBall before proceeding to make sure that you can mount FireBall’s CONTENT volume on your Mac Desktop.

What You Can Do

Once FireBall’s is mounted on your Mac Desktop, you can:

ξImport FireBall MP3 music into iTunes

ξCreate iTunes Playlists

ξBurn CDs using iTunes

ξSync Playlists and Music to your Apple iPod

What You Can’t Do

Here are some things you can’t do with iTunes:

ξCopy Music from an iPod to FireBall

ξCopy iTunes Playlists to your FireBall

ξImport FLAC files

Importing Music Into iTunes

iTunes allows music files to reside on different volumes or hard drives, including network volumes. Since FireBall’s CONTENT volume is really just another network volume to the Mac OS, you can add your FireBall music to iTunes.

iTunes creates and maintains it’s own Library index files which are separate from the actual music files that appear in it’s browser window. This means that the iTunes Music Library file can remain on your hard drive (usually located in your Music folder) while the actual music files are located on some other volume, like the FireBall CONTENT volume.

Note: Since iTunes does not currently support FLAC files, only MP3 files from FireBall can be used with iTunes.

Follow these steps to import your FireBall music content into iTunes:

1.After mounting your FireBall’s CONTENT volume (see above), open iTunes on your Mac.

2.Select Preferences… from the iTunes menu

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