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Move an iTunes library to a new machine
i wonder. i have a linux server with a samba share on it. unfortunitly, i have no firewire port on my mac, and no other drive big enough to store the music thats external. im upgrading the imac with a 6gb hdd. im guessing i could do this in a simular way, but telling the mac to have its music store on the samba share on the linux box (Apple share wont work, cant get NFS mounting yet under mac, so samba works on all!). can anyone see problems with this?
IT IS ABOUT PRESERVING PLAY COUNTS & RATINGS!!!!!
All precedent contributors missed the main point of the first posting: it was about to retain the original ratings and play counts.
IT IS ABOUT PRESERVING PLAY COUNTS & RATINGS!!!!!
Similarly, I'm trying to maintain playcounts etc., but in a different situation. I DON'T allow iTunes to manage my files. I do that just fine on my own, thanks. But I want to reorganize some files from 1 drive to another, without having to manually relink each one. At 1st, I thought "iTunes Music Library.xml" was going to do it: turns out to be output only, iTunes doesn't USE it for anything. The real data store is in "iTunes 3 Music Library" (adjust for version number). Unless somebody reverse engineers that, there appears to be no way to automate such changes.
Move an iTunes library to a new machine
That's how I do it.
Move an iTunes library to a new machine
Running iTunes off a Samba share works great. I've got a linux server with a massive drive and I keep my Music folder on it and iTunes preferences pointed to it. The copy and organize features of iTunes work fine as well. |
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