Chapter 9 Applications

electronics companies that works to make products compatible in a home network.

Publish shares to let others play the contained media files.

The media server is a convenient way to share files you download using the broadcatching service (see Section 9.8 on page 206).

Hardware-based media clients like the DMA-2500 can also play the files. See Section 18.4 on page 380 for the supported multimedia file formats.

Note: Anyone on your network can play the media files in the published shares. No user name and password or other form of security is used. The media server is enabled by default with the video, photo, and music shares published.

Songs from the iTunes Store

After using iTunes on your computer to download songs from Apple’s iTunes Store, you can copy them to the NSA. Many of these songs have DRM (Digital Rights Management). At the time of writing, you can use your Apple account ID and password to authorize up to a total of five computers to play the files. To authorize a computer, open iTunes and click Store > Authorize Computer.

A link for the NSA in iTunes under SHARED. Click it to display the NSA’s published media files as shown next.

Figure 104 NSA link in iTunes

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