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One way to migrate an iTunes collection to another drive
Authored by: TF on Jun 18, '08 07:58:40AM

I haven't needed to reimport my collection into iTunes yet, but I fear that day. I'm sure it will come, either from data loss or hard drive migration or something else.

One thing I do to prep for the inevitable is to make sure all the metadata is embedded into the files. Music is relatively easy but you have to make sure the album art is embedded (applescript to do this. Is there another way?) For VIDEOS, what the original poster was most worried about, I use MetaX to tag everything. Freeware and a nice tool to look up and jazz up mp4 and mov files. Highly recommended. Once the metadata is embedded, dragging that file into iTunes is all you have to do!



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One way to migrate an iTunes collection to another drive
Authored by: Perceval on Jun 18, '08 08:09:10AM

All the tags, but not Play Count, which is only in the iTunes Library.



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One way to migrate an iTunes collection to another drive
Authored by: schneb on Jun 23, '08 11:37:58AM

I am the actual poster of this hint (don't know why it labeled me as "anonymous"). I had no idea it would generate this much attention, but I am glad for all the nice alternatives for others to explore.

Thanks for the pointer to MetaX! I really do want some kind of annotation in my movie files that will import to iTunes, so I will look in to it.

As for those saying, "Why not just do it this way", the fact is, I do not know UNIX that well, nor do I trust Consolidate Library. Also, I asked on MacOSXhints forum and none of you guys were there to give me these great comments. So I came up with my own solution. The best? Hardly. But it worked.



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One way to migrate an iTunes collection to another drive
Authored by: schneb on Jun 23, '08 11:50:45AM

Rob fixed the Author - Thanks Rob!



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