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Neither drang and drop nor straight XML import were working for me so I tried this last suggestion and now my Top Rated tunes are on my had drive limited PowerBook. Exported XML from source Mac then edited (just find and replace) so
Help editing this XML?
Can anyone clarify this last post?
Help editing this XML?
Hi baltazar -
It's easy - honest (at least using Panther and iTunes 4.6). 1. Connect the two Macs with on a high speed network (FireWire or 100BaseT). Specifically mount the HD of the B&W Mac that houses your iTunes Music Library onto your iBook. You'll have the option of mounting your Home folder but this would confuse things - so don't. 2. At the iBook select "Go to Folder" from the Finder's "Go" menu and type: /VolumesThis will tell you how your iBook calls your B&W Mac's mounted HD. (Essential if both your hard drives are called "Macintosh HD" - the mounted/networked volume will be called something like "Macintosh HD-1") An alternative to the finder's Go to Folder menu is to type ls /Volumes in a Terminal window - ls being the List command.3. Export your iTunes playlist (or the Library) as XML from you B&W Mac and copy this to your iBook. 4. Now you want to change the information in this file so that when you ask iTunes on the iBook to import the files it knows where to look. //localhost ain't it - Use what you found in step 2. By the look of the XML I reckon you'll need to fill any spaces with %20 (my HD name didn't have any spaces when I did this). So open the XML file up in TextEdit and do a Find and Replace. For example Find //localhost Replace with /Volumes/Macintosh%20HD-1Save the file and now you should now have an XML file that has only changed location references (unless you have tracks called //localhost!) 5. Import this XML file into iTunes - and, as long as iTunes is set to copy files into its Music Folder - you should hopefully be done after a bit of copying. Or a lot - depending on the size of your iTunes Music Folder, baby. As easy as 1-2-3-4-5-ish. Gabriel
Help editing this XML?
If that doesn't work, try making one more change to the iTunes Music Library.xml file: Find: /Volumes/Macintosh%20HD-1 Save, close and import. |
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