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Play iTunes from anywhere via SMB
Authored by: Ansel_Witty on Feb 14, '06 02:33:01PM

The way I do this is with symlinks... I keep all my music, including the Library File on a separate External Drive...

I just made the folder ~/Music/iTunes/ a symlink to the folder on the external drive and iTunes just works exactly as if the folder was local. This gives me two big advantages, the first is if I decide to take my external drive with me, it is simple to have my music all available to me on the next computer by making one symlink on the new computer. It keeps all of my music in sync and also gives me all my ratings and playlists. It is also still linked with my iPod so if I plug it in on the new computer it automatically updates. This would solve one of the poster's problems with not being able to show the playlists to his wife and updating... It would mean you guys both shared the same music and would only work if you only had the Library open on one computer at a time, but it works pretty well for me over a network also...

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Play iTunes from anywhere via SMB
Authored by: kgp on Feb 16, '06 11:34:07AM

How do I make a symlink?



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