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iTunes music doesn't show up in iPhoto or iMovie

I am trying to get ANY iTunes music to show up in iPhoto '09 (version 8.1.1) or in iMovie, but in the settings under music, I can't get the toggle bar to show me anything. It's just like it is frozen when I click on it. Just the canned music from Apple plays. Yuk.

I have d'load iTunes music, plus ripped it in from CDs I own, and made several playlists, long and short. But nothing shows at all. All the music is on the same drive iPhoto is... nothing is across a network, a partition or a separate drive.

Another suggestion was to check to see if the file "iTunes Music Library.xml" was corrupted, but that appears to be fine.

I have reinstalled the iLife Media Browser (and repaired permissions) as suggested in the iPhoto forum, with no change.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dual core MacBook Pro-Mac OS X (10.6.2), Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 9, 2010 1:52 PM

38 replies

jdnell52

Level 1

4 points

Jan 28, 2010 7:45 PM in response to Steve Gallisdorfer

Just so anyone reading this thread knows, the files that Steve sent me, resolved my issues completely! It was simple to implement and resolved my problem with the iLife '09 apps. Apple needs to issue these in an update soon!

Jan 31, 2010 9:00 AM in response to Steve Gallisdorfer

Steve,

I would be really grateful if you could send to me as well.
email ist macjensxxx@gmail.com (of course without the x's).

Thx a million

Jens

Jan 31, 2010 9:12 AM in response to jenschristian

Hi Jens-

I'll send them to you in an email in the next 5 minutes...

Best-
Steve

Jan 31, 2010 9:48 AM in response to Steve Gallisdorfer

Steve was so kind as to send me the files and they worked like a charm.
Let's all hope that now the iPad is announced the girls and guys in Cupertino have time to take care of the problem by software update.

A nice Sunday to all of you.

Jens

Feb 4, 2010 11:41 AM in response to jenschristian

Hi- I'd be grateful for the file as well- and I will upload it on my web site so you can just post the url and wont have to keep sending to everyone 🙂
(I sent my email address to you in an email through here)

Feb 4, 2010 2:13 PM in response to Rachel Corey

meh, just in case the email with my address didn't work, rachel@xxxz3ers.com (remove the xxx)
thanks!

Feb 4, 2010 5:08 PM in response to Rachel Corey

Hi Rachel-

Look for the files in a moment! And if you can post them to your website, and then post a link here for everyone else to d'load, I would appreciate it.

Feb 5, 2010 2:32 PM in response to Steve Gallisdorfer

Hi- OK I just uploaded the stuff from Steve -THANK YOU- here:
http://waycoolinc.com/temp/ilifefix/ilifefix.html

I haven't tried it yet, will report as soon as I do!

I stopped by the Apple Store today and spoke with a Genius. They had no clue what I was talking about...

Again, thank you!

Feb 15, 2010 9:08 AM in response to Rachel Corey

upon my life and soul- Steve I cannot thank you enough. Too freaking simple and excellent fix. I didn't try iMovie- but I use iPhoto a lot and this really helps big. Aside from the frustration of a new $$$$ mbp not working. Thank you, thank you thank you

Chris CA

Level 10

82,434 points

Feb 15, 2010 10:54 AM in response to Rachel Corey

There is a new iLife Media browser update available thru Software Update.
Doesn't look like it is yet available as a separate download though.
I couldn't find it.
-> http://www.macrumors.com/2010/02/09/apple-releases-ilife-support-9-0-4/

Feb 15, 2010 11:52 AM in response to Steve Gallisdorfer

That iLife 9.0.4 update was installed on both of my computers in recent automatic software updates. There are now ten Media Browser Plugins in the folder, all listed as version 2.1.5.

Feb 25, 2010 9:09 AM in response to Steve Gallisdorfer

Thanks Steve.......... my problem was solved instantly..... YOU ROCK!!!

Mar 6, 2010 2:25 PM in response to Steve Gallisdorfer

I feel a bit like i'm doing something wrong, but neither does the file posted on the website nor the new update seems to work for me.
I still don't see my itunes library in my iphoto nor imovie.

I copied the previous plugins 2.1.3 in both ilifemediabrowser folders (on root hd and my users hd in library/application support/

did the same with the 2.1.5 and none of them work.

am i doing something wrong? am i missing something?

I'd appreciate assistance as there aren't any genius bar in my country.

Any ideas are more than welcome.

Mar 6, 2010 2:52 PM in response to Actarus_II

small precision according to my previous post :

- in iMovie, I can see the iPhoto content
- in iDVD, I can see the iMovie, iPhoto and iTunes content

The issue is I can't access iTunes library in iPhoto and in iMovie

An help is more than welcome, it's driving me crazy, it's been months it hasn't been working and I feel like I've tried everything.

Thanks in advance

Mar 6, 2010 3:38 PM in response to Actarus_II

Hi Actarus_II

I don't know if having the files at more than the root level could create a conflict and problem or not. In my set-up, they ONLY exist at the too level, as pictured in the graphic showing the path.

My recommendation is that you remove the files at in your user folder (preserve them, just in case), and replace the plug-ins in the root path: YOUR HARD DRIVE>LIBRARY>APPLICATION SUPPORT>iLifeMediaBrowser>Plug-Ins (replace this folder entirely with the plug-ins folder after you unzip it.)

Restart, and see if that resolves it.

If you would prefer that I email the files to you, post you email address with a series of xxxx's in it, and I will send them straight away to you.

As a note, there have been several Apple updates to iLifeMediaBrowser that have updated a couple of my plug-ins in this folder, but not all of them. All is still working perfectly with the 'fix'.

Good luck!

iTunes music doesn't show up in iPhoto or iMovie