This is a question that has been nagging me every since I started the process of using Windows Home Server with multiple 7MC clients throughout my home to access my music/photos/videos.  I hope someone out there understands my dilemma and can offer some help/guidance...

Here's what I want to do:  I want to be able to maintain a central set of music files (easily done already by using shared music folder in WHS).  Here is the part that is tricky... I also want to force all 7MC clients to use the same centralized METADATA (library data) that I set once for each file in the central store.  The problem I am having is that each 7MC client wants to build its OWN library/metadata locally for the music files, which results in inconsistent libraries across my clients.  This is extremely frustrating and confusing for users of my media network.  I just can't seem to figure out a way for all 7MC clients to connect to and use the same centralized library information (that I would maintain using an MP3 tag tool to keep it clean and organized). I know that in WMP12 you can select a remote library, but you don't consistently get cover art, and still, this doesn't make 7MC select this library (even though I know that there is some connection between the WMP12 and 7MC music libraries... geez, why does this have to be so confusing!?).

I hope I have made my dilemma clear and that someone out there has either had the same issue and solved it, or can simply tell me this is impossible, or offer an alternative that would still work within 7MC.

I achieve this same goal with movies by using MyMovies... so if there is a similar 3rd party 7MC plugin for music files, I would love to hear about it.

Thanks in advance for any help!

I don't think this is possible, each 7MC client builds it's own local WMP12 database / cache.