You're welcome. Funnily enough I've just been investigating some other iTunes start-up behaviors because people have talked about putting shortcuts in place to redirect the iOS device backups. I'm testing with Windows which may not necessarily carry over to Mac but I've noticed two definite changes.
In the past if you had split library where the library folder was on an internal drive and the media folder had been relocated to another path, if you started itunes while that path was inaccessible iTunes would reset the media folder location to the "default" path, i.e. iTunes Media inside your iTunes folder. This change would be permanent. Under the current build it seems the change is a temporary adjustment and resets to your choice if the path is available next time iTunes starts up. I have no idea when this change happened.
In the past if you had created a library in a non-standard location, i.e. not at <User's Music>\iTunes and the library was missing when you started iTunes it would prompt you to Choose or Create a library. If the library was in the standard location and missing, iTunes would silently create a new empty library for you. Now I see the same silent rebuild for a missing, non-standard location library. Again, I've no idea which build changed the behaviour.
I've just double-checked and it seem iTunes now behaves properly with a junction/symlink both when reading and writing. Previously the linked folder in the chain would become a regular folder with the new item visible in it, but access to the other items in the redirected folder would be lost.
The all seem like useful improvements but it would be nice to know exactly which build things changed with just so that one can give the correct advice to the non-upgrading hold outs.
One obvious non-standard behaviour of iTunes that hasn't changed is the fact that when you double-click on a library file it opens the last library it had open rather than the library file you've just clicked on. An easier way to switch libraries is so overdue...
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