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A warning about iTunes, backups, and bought music
When I read your hint I thought it was wrong because I have burned my entire playlist before. So I went into iTunes to check myself and it turns out you are right because they have changed the way iTunes works in the most recent version.
A warning about iTunes, backups, and bought music
I'm not sure I do understand the issue here. I just got done burning my entire iTunes library onto 2 DVD data disk's. All of my music appears to be there and complete. The music store files are in aac format.
A warning about iTunes, backups, and bought music
That's because you burned to DVD, simply as "Data."
A warning about iTunes, backups, and bought music
(and by "data option" I mean, burn the files/folders in the Finder... manually.) Aw crap, this means that iTunes can't break it up for you automatically by size of destination format. (7 GB of music onto 10 CD-R's or 2 DVD-R's, etc.)
A warning about iTunes, backups, and bought music
Try creating a new Smart Playlist and tell it to select 650MB worth of songs by Album. This playlist will contain the first CD worth of music, so name it CD1 or something similar.
A warning about iTunes, backups, and bought music
A disc made using the MP3 method will also play in most DVD players.
A warning about iTunes, backups, and bought music
It's more like 4.23GB for me.
image and segment music folder
There should be someway to do something like this (if this hint hasn't been posted somewhere else):
image and segment music folder
You can do this through hdiutil, which comes with a standard install of Mac OS X. I'm assuming that you are using at least Mac OS X 10.2 here. hdiutil create -ov -srcfolder /Users/username/Music/iTunes -volname 'Music Backup' /tmp/musicbackup.dmg mkdir ~/Desktop/music\ backup hdiutil segment -o ~/Desktop/music\ backup/musicbackup -segmentSize 650m /tmp/musicbackup.dmg rm /tmp/musicbackup.dmg Here are the commands to make a DVD set, it assumes that 4.2 gigabytes will be small enough to fit on a DVD: hdiutil create -ov -srcfolder /Users/username/Music/iTunes -volname 'Music Backup' /tmp/musicbackup.dmg mkdir ~/Desktop/music\ backup hdiutil segment -o ~/Desktop/music\ backup/musicbackup -segmentSize 4300m /tmp/musicbackup.dmg rm /tmp/musicbackup.dmg The size for the DVD set is 4300 megabytes because a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes so 4.2 GiB = 4300.8 MiB.
How I back up iTunes music
Whenever I back up my computer and rebuild it, I usually take my hole music folder right out of home, and burn most of it on a DVD, and take the two or three artists and put it on a second DVD with the rest of my data (because my music collection is slightly larger than a single DVD), and copy the iTunes prefs out of ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist and throw that on the second DVD as well.
A warning about iTunes, backups, and bought music
Usa Apple's Backup (if you are a .Mac member). It allows you to backup your iTunes Library and/or iTunes Purchased Music to a CD/DVD or and extenal drive. |
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