iTunes Library on Dual Boot M/C

Budfrog

Budfrog

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I am currently running a dual boot system with Vista Premium and XP Pro (both 32bit) on the C: and V: partitions respectively.

I primarily use iTunes with XP Pro but have also set it up within Vista. Is it possible to have both versions working off a common library or does anyone have any experience of syncronisation software.
 
That will work fine. I've done it before.

But not that you need it now, robocopy is good for syncing stuff.
 
just set your My Music directories to the same folder?

I have my My Music on an External Harddrive and it's used by iTunes on an XP laptop and a Vista Desktop :)
 
Thanks for the help however I don't think that I have made myself very clear.

My music is stored on my data D: drive and I have both copies of iTunes reading/writing from that source.

What I would like to keep synced are things like playlists.
 
AFAIK and I'm not an iTunes expert and actually hate the product :) the libraries/playlist info is held in your user profile, if you can identify this location and then force iTunes to use a common location then it'll work, not really helpful I know but worth a quick look.
 
As IAmATeaf says the itunes library is stored within your user folder, in my dual boot setup I have my user folder stored on a non OS drive and I've directed both XP and Vista to look to this drive for 'My Documents' etc, that way I'm able to share settings for itunes and other applications between OS's without having to make any application changes as they look to the default location.

If that makes any sense lol
 
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