On Aug 9, 2008, at 4:55 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
DP: So when I tell ITunes not to import songs that I
play, it will work eve on the external drive. Cool!
SS: Yep, very cool. In prior versions, iTunes, at least on my system
tended to ignore that checkbox whenever I created a library containing
files from another drive.
For those that might still be wondering what the point is to creating
multiple libraries, I read about the following examples.
#1 You have a large music collection containing a number of holiday
songs. You like listening to your collection randomly, but don't want
to hear Christmas music in July. You could create one library
containing just the holiday music and another excluding that music.
Then, when you want all those holiday tunes, you could switch
libraries and not hear the Doors right after Jingle Bells.
#2 You have two iPods, one bigger than the other. On the larger iPod
you don't care what music is synced, but the smaller one you reserve
for podcasts. You could create two libraries, one with music and one
just with podcasts. In this way, you wouldn't have to constantly
check and uncheck items for syncing.
I'm not saying the above can't be done in some other way -- especially
in the second example, I don't see why playlists couldn't be used. Be
that as it may, I wanted to post the examples for those wondering why
one might desire multiple libraries.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven M. Sawczyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: pointing ITunes to a drive:
Nope, you can create the library in the regular location on your main
volume. They must have fixed it in an update as it's not ignoring
that copy files checkbox anymore. Having multiple libraries is very
cool.
Steve
On Jul 31, 2008, at 7:46 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
One thing,
It will not let me create my library on the nas drive.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: pointing ITunes to a drive:
On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:16 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
DP: when I hold down option while loading ITunes, I am told that
ITunes is in
safe mode and all plugins are disabled and have a continue button but
nothing else in the dialog.
SS: Hmm, this is weird as it asks me to choose/create a different
library. I use vo-d to go to the doc, find itunes using regular arrow
keys and hit enter. As soon as I hit enter, I hold down option and it
works fine. I've played around a bit and can't get mine to come up in
safe mode.
Steve
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Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: pointing ITunes to a drive:
On Jul 29, 2008, at 7:01 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
DP: If I am understanding you correctly, once I create the library, I
neeed to
move it to the drive before I access it?
SS: Well that's the part I'm not really sure of. I just created the
library on my mac volume, in the itunes folder where the standard
library gets created. I then added files from the other drive, but
iTunes started copying them all over to the iTunes folder. I verified
that the box for copying files to the itunes location was unchecked
and still had the same issue. My guess is that you need to create the
library on the external drive -- you can specify where the library
should be at the time of creation, however, I haven't found anything
to back this up.
I'll play around with this a bit tonight as I really would love to
have my external drive files in a library. I'll let you know what I
find.
Steve
Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven M. Sawczyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
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theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: pointing ITunes to a drive:
Are you wanting to create a separate iTunes library for the external
drive? If yes, hold down option while launching iTunes and you'll be
given a dialog in which you can create, or choose a library. Now,
here's the trick. I find that, although I have the option to copy
files to my iTunes folder unchecked, iTunes copies files if I start
adding to a library from an external drive. My thought, which I've
not been able to prove or disprove yet is that the library has to
exist on the same volume as the songs you're importing, otherwise,
they get copied. The various how-tos on the subject don't discuss
this specifically, however.
If you've created a new library, simply hold down option while
launching iTunes and you can switch back and forth. If I find a way
to import without getting iTunes to attempt to copy all the files,
I'll let you know. Who knows, maybe it'll just work for you and you
won't get errors saying that you're out of drive space like I did. :)
HTH,
Steve
On Jul 29, 2008, at 5:36 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi,
I know this should be simple, but I've got a drive full of folders I'd
like
to access through ITunes. is it as simple as ad to library or is there
another technique I need to use?
Thanks!
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