[Windows Phone 7 General] cp_kirkley:
Please explain to me what the point of storing your music on a NAS if you have to copy the music your really going to "use" onto the local disk? A person interested in purchasing a NAS is looking to have access to ALL his music, without having to constantly transfer music onto a local disk in order to copy it to the iPhone, then remove it from the iPhone then delete it from the library then copy the whole zany process over again anytime I want to switch a playlist... and thats before I have to resync all my photos and apps. Maybe since you have not experienced this personally would be the reason you've suggested something so asinine.

Lets leave the iPhone realm for a second to explain my point to you. Imagine waking up at 5 in the morning for a run before work. You want to sync to 30 song running playlist to your shuffle, but your wife uses it with a different playlist when she drives to work. Currently, you would waste more time removing the songs and adding the new, than you would actually spend running. then you'd have to do the whole process over again to put your wife's driving playlist back on. Sounds like it sucks, doesnt it? Now imagine having to resync your photos and applications to your iphone each time you wanted to change your playlist as well. What you thought would be a seamless transition from classical to alt rock has now turned into a frustrating and mundane task that have you plan on before any major trip.

Please tell me how this would be catering to MY specific situation. Last I heard the number of people using servers to distribute their data on a home network was somewhere in the hundreds of thousands. Not to mention Synology is a top tier company up there with Thecus as far as brand quality and recognition is concerned. Its not like I'm using a damned D-Link or Eagletech. Nor is it like the feature depraved entry level units like Buffalo Linkstations.

The easy workaround you speak of is total bollocks. I'm not copying files to the local disk. Again, that's why I purchased the NAS. It supports Apple File Protocol, Samba, and my networked drives have no issue being detected by OSX. It is SPECIFICALLY iTunes that has this problem. Its not even like its not recognized, its that the code is so poorly optimized it renders the function useless to anyone who actually values their time. So really, they already have "catered to my specific situation". :rolleyes: Theyve just done a piss poor job at it. Which in turn bolsters my opinion of the software.

Also, you only addressed one question I posed to you. Can you tell me that allowing OGG and Flac to be natively recognized in iTunes, and allow me to copy those songs to an iPhone without conversion to be a personal request from just little old me? What about having to wrap container files around any video that isnt MP4 to even be seen in iTunes or Front Row? Why cant I just install the codecs necessary like in Windows?

You may now try to say that my problem is with iTunes, and not the iphone. You would only be partially correct. Because this issue pertains to iTunes, and the only official median for iDevices to communicate with your computer is iTunes, a problem present in iTunes affects you all. Apple should be "catering" to all XX million of you.

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+ 10 Gullum. Very well said.