Using remote iTune

Have multiple machine running at home and constantly changing their configuration means I will have hardtime have a simple solution to consolidate every music and podcast media in one place.  After try and try and try, I settled with leaving everything running on the iTune on my file server (the machine Z).  So far things seem working fine, as long as I configure it so that:

• no media file is copy over to the itune folder, and instead leaving them as where they are in my Z Drive file structure
• set it to share all all media

I also found out that maintaining song and podcast is simple.  I just once in a while copy over the whole song and podcast directory on the Z Drive, and iTune will put display stuff in the right place WITHOUT redundant listing. 

The iTune UI on accessing remote content has much to improve, but at least I can work around the problem by first using sort to pinpoint to particular album or podcast I want to listen, and then use sort to find the exact item I want.  Not perfect, but a workable workaround, and sure is way better than maintaining multiple iTune library everywhere on the network.