McIntosh MS500 Owner's manual

MediaSyncworkingwith64‐bitAppleOS

AnewversionofMediaSyncsoftwarehasbeencreatedtoworkwiththeeverchangingAppleenvironment.

ThelatestversionofMS500firmwareprovidesanewversionofMediaSync.Itcanbedownloadedfromthe

ContentsectionoftheMS500’sConfigpages[Your_MS500_IP_Address/config]

Alternatively,thelatestAutonomicMirageversionofsyncsoftwarecanbefoundat:

macOS:http://updates.autonomic‐controls.com/clients/syncapp/Mirage/MacSync.dmg

Windows:http://updates.autonomic‐controls.com/clients/syncapp/mirage/MediaSyncSetup.exe

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OnyourMac,youwillneedtogointoSystemSettings>Securitytoopenthesynctoolinstallerforthefirst

time,asAutonomicisan“unrecognizeddeveloper”toApple.

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Thebelowlinksareforrequiredsoftware(SwiftandJava)neededfortheSyncTooltorunonaMAC.

 Ifyouneedswift,usethefollowinglink:https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1998?locale=en_US

 IfyouneedJava,usethefollowinglinktodownloadversion13:

https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html?variant=openjdk13&jvmVariant=hotspot

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IfSwiftandJavaareinstalled,installtheMediaSyncsoftware.

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Issues:

Ifthesynctoolfailstosyncallcontent/playlist,theiTunesdatabasegeneratorneedstorunmanually.

1. Closethesynctool

2. Openupaterminal

3. Cdtothefollowingpath:cd/Applications/AutonomicSync.app/Contents/Resources/

4. RuntheiTunesCLIscript:./itunes‐cli5/

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Oncecompleted,reopenthesynctool.

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IfthesynctoolscannotseetheiTunessoftware(TheiTunestabisreportingiTunesisn'tinstalledeventhough

itis),pleaseusethefollowingstepstoenableaccesstothedatabase:

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AfteriTunes12.2,theiTuneslibraryisnotsharedinawaythirdpartiescanreaditwithoutsomeadditional

configuration.Toenablethisfunctionality:

1. OpeniTunespreferences

2. SelecttheAdvancedtab

3. ChecktheShareiTunesLibraryXMLwithotherapplicationscheckbox

4. RestarttheSynchronizationclient

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Note:IfyouareusingWindows,pleasedonotuseiTunesfromtheWindowsStore.Ifyouhavealready

installedit,pleaseuninstalltheWindowsstoreversionofiTunesanduseoneofthebelowlinks.

iTunesforWindows64bit:https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/win64

iTunesforWindows32bit:https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/win32

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February10,2021