

One issue I've had since iTunes 12.0 that's still persisting in 12.1, is the inability for playlist column changes to hold their state after disconnecting from the Home Share. The best solution I have come up with is using another Mac with a large external RAID dedicated as an iTunes Server, but even that is annoying since when I open up iTunes on my MBP I have to choose Home Sharing drive each time. That's an issue I've had in the past, along with other issues when trying to create a reliable and seamless iTunes Server solution. I have found that if The Mac boots up without seeing the remote drive and I start tunes it forgets the external drive and creates a first time folder tree under my local account. How does that work? Are they running Windows on it so they can have iTunes loaded? Would be nice to describe how to move an iTunes library and then how to access it when leveraging this iTunes server capability. Consider that many NAS devices (such as Synology) have iTunes server capabilities.
