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I finally sat down today to migrate my Twonkymedia Server to my AppleTV so I can get the automatic updating of the library via iTunes without my horrible rsync scripts to my old TwonkyServer.

Why do I need a media server if I have an AppleTV? So I can share music with my Xbox 360, MS kindly let you play whatever music the 360 can get its hands on in game and theres something nice about listening to Radiohead’s In Rainbows whilst playing Crackdown

It turned out to be incredibly easy….

1) Install the latest Twonkymedia Server for MacOS on you Mac
2) scp -pr /usr/local/mediaserver to somewhere on your AppleTV (I used ~frontrow/Applications
3) Edit ~/frontrow/Applications/mediaserver/twonkymedia-default.ini and edit first 3 lines as follows:

contentbase=/
contentdir=+A|/mnt/Media/
friendlyname=Twonky AppleTV

4) add a line to /etc/rc.local (or your startup scripts) to start ~/frontrow/Applications/mediaserver/twonkymedia
5) Go to http://appletv.local:9000 and check that its indexing files ok
6) Enjoy music on a uPNP device via your AppleTV

See, Easy!