{"id":277,"date":"2011-12-05T22:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T06:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/?p=277"},"modified":"2011-12-05T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T06:10:58","slug":"setting-up-the-metadata-database-on-a-shared-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Setting up the Metadata Database on a shared server"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Normally the Metadata Database is store in your home folder, in ~\/Library\/Application Support\/AudioFinder<\/div>\n<div>In some cases people may wish to share this on a server, in that case you can override the default location by doing the following.<\/div>\n<div>1. Figure out where you want to keep the file that is the shared database.<br \/>\n2. Make sure you have it so it will always be mounted when AF launches<br \/>\n3. run Terminal.app<br \/>\n4. Then edit the following line to include the path to where you want to keep the database by replacing the &#8220;\/Volumes\/Some Drive\/Some Folder&#8221; part.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: monospace;\">defaults\u00c2\u00a0write com.icedaudio.audiofinder &#8220;MetadataDatabasePath&#8221; -string &#8220;\/Volumes\/Some Drive\/Some Folder&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>5. Paste the edited line into Terminal.app<br \/>\n6. Launch AF. If successful you&#8217;ll find a file named &#8220;Metadata Database&#8221; at that path.<\/p>\n<p>What does this do? It sets the AF Preferences to override the location in your Home Folder Application support where AF\u00c2\u00a0defaults\u00c2\u00a0to.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<dl id=\"profile7967\">\n<dt><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally the Metadata Database is store in your home folder, in ~\/Library\/Application Support\/AudioFinder In some cases people may wish to share this on a server, in that case you can override the default location by doing the following. 1. Figure out where you want to keep the file that is the shared database. 2. Make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icedaudio.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}