Therefore, adding your Media Sources should be the first thing to do after you have installed your MP2 Server, at least one MP2 Client and you have attached your MP2 Client to your MP2 Server. This, however, means that unless you add at least one Media Source, the MP2 Server doesn't know any media item and you will not be able to play a song, a movie or any other media item.

A Media Source is nothing more than a place where the MP2 system can find media items. As soon as you attach a freshly installed MP2 Client to your MP2 Server, it has immediately access to all the media items your MP2 Server knows about. Unlike in MP1, there is no need to import your music collection on every single client.īut how does the MP2 Server know about media items such as music files, video files or image files? This is where Media Sources (or short 'Sources') come into play. The big advantage of this concept is that from the perspective of an MP2 Client it does not matter at all, where the media items are located. where is the media item located, what is the name of the movie or the artist of a song, how does the cover of a song look like, etc., generally speaking: the metadata of your media items) is always stored centralized in the database of your MP2 Server. But the information on your media items (e.g. This means that your media items can be anywhere - on your MP2 Server, on your MP2 Client, on any other computer in your network, on a NAS or maybe even in the Internet.

MP2 uses the concept of distributed media, but centralized information. This page gives an introduction into the concept of MP2 Media Sources. The most important configuration step that needs to be done is to configure the Media Sources.

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