Make sure iTunes mounts a networked music library

Apr 23, '07 07:30:04AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

There are a lot of tips here regarding using iTunes and a networked music folder. The biggest issue is iTunes changing the library's path to a default (local) path every time it is started if you forgot to mount the networked music drive first. After trying a few tricks and scripts, I noticed something really simple: when you have an alias to a resource on a network drive and click it while the drive is not mounted, OS X starts to search simply mounts the drive. So all I had to do was:

That's it! No script needed. If the drive is mounted, it just opens iTunes. If it's not mounted but mountable, it mounts and then starts iTunes, which will find all its files. And if the drive is not mountable (e.g. turned off), you simply get nothing (except some sort of dialog warning), which is exactly the behaviour I want.

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