Moving my iTunes Library

Marky

Marky

Marky

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Hey all,

I've got all my music in my iTunes - however, they are currently sitting on my Macbook. I want to move my entire library to my NAS.

Is there an option just to import and export library's around?

What is the easiest way to go about this?

EDIT: Just found this, I assume it'll work for my NAS?

Thanks,

Marky
 
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Move your entire iTunes folder (found in My Documents, or the Home directory) to your NAS.

Then hold Shift when launching iTunes and point it to the new location. Done :)
 
EVH said:
Move your entire iTunes folder (found in My Documents, or the Home directory) to your NAS.

Then hold Shift when launching iTunes and point it to the new location. Done :)
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I'm looking to do a fresh install of Snow Leopard - Can I just move the folder over and then when I've finished the install, just shift click iTunes as you've mentioned? :)
 
Marky said:
I'm looking to do a fresh install of Snow Leopard - Can I just move the folder over and then when I've finished the install, just shift click iTunes as you've mentioned? :)
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Yes. But It's the alt key (options) if using a mac keyboard.
 
Indeed. My iTunes library has sat on my NAS for years.

Just do the install, point iTunes to the right place and it's all there. Even remembers settings :)

(Except Lion screwed my library file *grumble*)
 
Excellent :) Thanks for the help guys :)

EVH - If I so happen to slip and accidentally buy Lion - Should I be okay library wise? I'll be transferring my library before upgrading, so it should be fine right?
 
I've just moved my library over no problem - When I pause and then resume a song it takes about 5 seconds before it plays, or when I go to any song for that matter and play it - Is this normal? The NAS is downstairs and connected to a home plug which is then connected to my Macbook, all by ethernet - I guess I just thought it would be instant :p
 
Should be instant, then again I'm on an all-gigabit network :p

I think my library is screwed for unknown reasons.. I'm blaming Lion because that's the only change to my setup! ha!
 
I tried moving my iTunes library to the server a while ago and it did exactly what you describe, so I gave up and moved it back to the HDD. That was over GigE too!
 
OllyM said:
I tried moving my iTunes library to the server a while ago and it did exactly what you describe, so I gave up and moved it back to the HDD. That was over GigE too!
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I think I may end up putting my library back onto my HDD aswell - I don't like how slow it is :p I know 5 seconds doesn't sound like much - but it sort of freezes iTunes whilst it thinks about it aswell :p
 
OllyM said:
I tried moving my iTunes library to the server a while ago and it did exactly what you describe, so I gave up and moved it back to the HDD. That was over GigE too!
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I've had it on my NAS for over a year, without issue.

Then one day (suspiciously after Lion update) it just decided to stop working. Weird!

@Marky how big is your library and where is it stored? Like I said, it's instant here and my library is all Apple lossless, around 70GB.

Perhaps the external drive/NAS you have is allowing the drive to spin down when not in use?
 
My library is now in excess of 1tb. Im using a 2tb WD firewire 800 drive split in two - 500gb for time machine (knowing full well it'll never reach that size!) and the remainder for my iTunes library.

After my install of Lion, I simply played around with the settings in iTunes > Preferences and did what EVH said - really as easy as that!
 
EVH said:
@Marky how big is your library and where is it stored? Like I said, it's instant here and my library is all Apple lossless, around 70GB.

Perhaps the external drive/NAS you have is allowing the drive to spin down when not in use?
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Only about 16GB big. And I don't think it could be a spin down issue as the 5 second pause happens even when I play a track and then press next track :(
 
Just a little update - I've been playing around with my NAS and found that my NAS has an "iTunes Server" feature called "Firefly Media Server". I've added my library to that service and in my iTunes go to "iTunes Server" and at the moment it's working flawlessly :)
 
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