Local and Remote Libraries

SuperSync identifies two music libraries: a primary one, also known as the local library, and a second one, also known as the remote library.

The local library is typically your primary music library on the machine that SuperSync is running on. In most cases, it simply mirrors your iTunes library.

The remote library is the one you are comparing your local library with. It can be music from another hard drive, an iPod, or another networked SuperSync.

These two libraries are distinct libraries that may contain some, or all, or no tracks in common. That's where SuperSync comes in. The contents of these two libraries become available for synchronization, giving users access to songs from either library.

SuperSync uses colors to identify tracks by which library they belong to.

All tracks in your library have a colored dot next to them, which identifies which library they are in:
gray Gray dot is a local, unsynchronized track that is not in the remote library
blue Blue dot is a remote, unsynchronized track that is not in your local library
green Green dot is when the exact same track is in both libraries

When files are transferred from the local to the remote, it is called an upload, and a download is getting files from the remote library to your local library.

A little more terminology... SuperSync has a built-in music server that uses a variant of Apple's DAAP (Digital Audio Access Protocol. This means that iTunes should be able to see and play music from your SuperSync server. For security and piracy reasons, iTunes' is not accessible through DAAP. To use SuperSync's server, you just need to enable it in the network preferences. To access it from outside your firewall, you'll need to know a little more about IP addresses and port numbers, which is described more under the server and WAN documentation.