
I no longer have to worry about space since I can plan well ahead for that.

Still, I have over 2TB of media reasonably secure and all Macs are backed up via TM. Cons are that the initial investment was high and that having my iTunes library on the Drobo means I can't do a time machine backup on that. Nicecast allows Mac users to broadcast audio from their machine over the Internet. Rogue Amoeba, the makers of useful sound utilities for the Mac, will no longer be making one of their apps as Nicecast has officially been discontinued. Pros were that I could grow the storage space as drives got cheaper, recycle old drives, have a safety net if drives fail and also use as a Time Machine backup. Rogue Amoeba discontinuing Nicecast for Mac, suggests alternatives for live podcast broadcasting. Then as the library got bigger, it was getting hard to store the media on an external drive and also back up. The rMBP should last a good few years and is definitely an improvement over the mini.įor storage space, I moved away from internal drives with the mini. Version 1.
#MAC ALTERNATIVE TO NICECAST SOFTWARE UPDATE#
Today, a major update to Nicecast has been released. Princeton, NJ - For almost two years, Rogue Amoeba has provided Nicecast, the essential tool for live broadcasting on OS X.


Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X. Now I use a first gen rMBP (2012) that was retired when I got my touch bar MBP. Nicecast Version 1.8 Arrives - It Gets Easier Every Day. The Mac is not the most competitive market for DJ-ing software (compared to. The host mac has evolved from a G4 tower bought in the late 90s to a 2009 Mac mini. Initially just music, ripping all my CDs plus some vinyl. I have had a media server in several forms since iTunes first came into being.
