Last week I got a GoFlex 500GB drive and a GoFlex TV to add to my GoFlex Home. I was ready to see if this GoFlex system was all it was cracked up to be. I already talked about how impressed I was with GoFlex Home, now I wanted to put GoFlex TV and the GoFlex portable to the test. Here is what I did:
1. Followed the simple quick start guide for my GoFlex TV connecting all the cables and power. Note to self – upgrade to HDMI cabling, because the back of my TV looks like a snake pit.
2. Powered up the GoFlex TV and navigated to the Component 2 input on the TV…Voila!
3. Went to settings and setup the network connection with login information. I went wired in this case versus wireless to maximize speed.
4. Went to my GoFlex Home setup on Seagateshare.com to make sure the Home was setup to share media files, and I had everything in the right folder – Public in my case.
5. Navigated the GoFlex TV to my iTunes folder on the GoFlex Home and setup a shortcut.
6. The inaugural music selected…a little Godsmack.
The experience was simple, and might I say eye opening. I realized my music, photos, and videos needed a bit of re-organizing. I had music scattered across multiple platforms (iTunes and Windows Media Player). Since I am an iTunes only guy now, I archived the wma files to the GoFlex portable drive, consolidated my iTunes libraries, and created folders for my photos and videos by date (that was the easiest way for me).
I did all of this while my wife and kids were out of town visiting family, so a little GoFlex TV family training is in order for when they come home. I can imagine what my 8 and 11 year old are going to want… their own shortcuts to their pictures (since they both are digital photo junkies, and they take pictures of literally everything, everywhere…), music (since they both have iPods and their own tastes in music), and videos (since they both like to shoot some video with their cameras). Oh – forgive me for the blog pic…shot with my iPhone, since all 4 cameras are with my wife and kids.
I guess my GoFlex experience is still just starting, but needless to say, we’re now a GoFlex family.
Oh, and by the way, I upgraded to Seagateshare Pro and have access to all my content on my iPhone too…. love it.
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Mark,
I love your posts – they get better weekly!
This post begged for a video. I think you should give it a try.
@Pete Steege. Thanks Pete…I actually was going to do a video on this one…maybe the next chapter in the series 🙂
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Hey.
I just got the goflex home and i’m a little confused with its itunes integration.
#1 – i don’t know where to put my music on the drive so it shows up in iTunes.
#2 – if i have all my music on the NAS, will i be able to sync my iPod?
Can you help?
@Andy Hi Andy – thanks for the comment… for one, don’t change the location of your library. The iTunes server should be used as a secondary library. Think of it as read only. Simply copy your music to anywhere in the public folder or place it in your private folder, click on the green arrow on the bottom right corner of the folder in the Seagate share web interface and enable sharing with media devices. Remember, if you store all of your music on GoFlex Home and point iTunes there, you won’t have access to your music when you are outside of the home and without an internet connection. I have my iTunes library local, and copied over to the GoFlex Home. That way, I have access to my library from anywhere via the internet.
This is great information – I even found the “enable sharing with media devices” tick box. Unfortunately, it seems that iTunes still cannot see the My Music folder as a Shared library.
I hope I don’t need to share each individual folder underneath My Music! (When I look at the share information, it only lists the handful of files in the directory, not the 1000+ subdirectories.)
Thanks!
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