Mac Power User is episode 515.

Stephen takes one for the team. Hello, this is David Sparks.

Joined by my pal Stephen Hackett and welcome to the MacPower users.

Hey, Stephen.

Hey, how are you?

Good.

We are due for a feedback episode, and there is a lot to discuss today.

This is an episode that we've tried to do a couple of times and then you know our schedules change

and things come up and it's finally here and we've got a lot of stuff to catch up on.

Yeah, we do. This is going to be like a roller coaster man. I feel like we've got some highs, we've got some lows in this episode.

Just for the listener, there's a whole topic that has no detail in it that David just told me on

Skype that he would just tell me about on the show, which M-Ser listeners have picked up on this.

I am extremely type A, like to a like I like outlines done days in it and it's like this I'm worried like whatever is in this topic I'm very concerned but I also have a surprise for you so maybe things bounce out in the end.

Yeah, I think that you know you're owed one. All right, the starting out listener, as opposed to co-host Stephen, wrote in about media management.

He says, I want to put all my iTunes media, lots of movies and music onto an external drive and move all that media off my

iMac to free it up you know this is a common problem we all have it's the

these SSDs are expensive and you start getting media it fills up the the iPhone now

takes massive sized pictures so I can see why he's got this issue so anyway he

continues and he wants to have all the instances of iTunes and Apple TV devices in his house point to the media on the remote disk.

Says I'm hesitant because I've tried this before with external drives and iTunes noticeably choked and exposed several bugs like album art and movie

art now not displaying correctly and he had to roll back the changes which was a nightmare and

he really doesn't want to go through another rollback again. So he's

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