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Another "geez, I wish I could make a smartlist that"
Authored by: tcurtin on Mar 12, '03 03:54:35PM
could be based on location or path! I have a huge amount of MP3s (30+ gb - I use some pretty high bitrates to rip) on a PC drive at home. On my ibook, I have a much smaller collection.

I disabled "advanced prefs", "copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library", and then did File:Add to Library on the samba-mounted PC music folder. No problem - now itunes knows about all the music on the PC and on the ibook. When I'm at home, I just mount the PC drive, and I use shuffle to play anything in my library on both computers.

The problem is, how to listen when the ibook can't be connected to the PC? If itunes tries to play a file it can't find, it just stops. For now, I made "all tunes added before" and "all tunes added after" lists for music on the ibook, and on the pc respectively. A smartlist that could select files based on matching paths would be perfect, especially if it could live update.

Any ideas? Perhaps I could cobble something like this together using a script, especially since the library file is just XML. However, no use reinventing the wheel!

What I'd like to do, is keep high-quality copies of all my MP3s on the PC. Then, when I need a change in ibook music, periodically use the tip here http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030215215022754&query=itunes to downsample the bitrates of a batch of music from the PC onto my ibook. After then getting rid of unwanted files from the ibook, I'll obviously want the "files on ibook" and "files on pc" playlists updated.

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