How sharing works

Your library lives on your Mac. You can invite people to read it, and you can join libraries other people invite you to. In your library you are the owner and everyone you share with is a peer.

What you share

Sharing lives in Settings, behind Manage sharing. Add a peer, give them a name for your own reference, and tick Share my library. Then hand them an invite, the single string their copy of Trellis uses to connect.

Sharing is whole-library. A peer gets all of it, and anything you add later shows up for them.

What a peer can see

A peer gets a full sidebar: Browse, Search, Recently Added, your collections, and the venue, artist, musician, event and genre lists. Catalog pages arrive whole, with biographies, photographs, lineups, lineage, source notes and checksum results.

A peer can read and play. Audio reaches them as MP3 at 256k.

Stars and listening

Your favorites do not travel to peers. The stars a peer adds are kept on their own machine.

Trellis writes a row each time a peer starts a track, and that peer’s Activity block on the Sharing page lists what they played and when. In a library you have joined, the owner sees the same about you.

Reaching your machine

Trellis listens on the Mac it runs on. Connecting a peer means carrying traffic from outside in to that machine, which is a tunnel or a VPN you run yourself.