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iTunes 10.5 does not load shared library files

Since today's update to iTunes 10.5 from 10.4.1. iTunes can no longer access the shared music library I have on my iomega NAS disk. It sees the disk and lists it as a shared library, but when I click on the library it goes into an endless loading cycle. In the past it might take a minute or so to load the library, but since the update, iTunes never actually does load it.


There is no error message, not even an operation time-out. I can't see anything rrelevant in the console. It just goes on for ever trying to load the shared library.


It was loading the shsred library just fine until this evening when the update downloaded.


Any ideas?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iTunes 10.5

Posted on Oct 11, 2011 9:56 PM

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Oct 12, 2011 6:56 AM in response to e4effect

This is happening with my Linksys Home Media Server as well,it loads it,then it ejects it right away.... Linksys sure isn't gonna upgrade this thing, and it worked fine in 10.4 yesterday, why do they keep messing with this? I don't have any OS 5 devices, so am i stuck at 10.4, where would i go to get 10.4 and reinstall that?

Oct 12, 2011 7:05 AM in response to yy1

I learned my lessons in the past and always download

the full installer and not use software update. Then, I

always keep a copy of the previously working installer

as it seems old version now get removed from the

servers when new ones are released.


Also, keep backups of libraries because some version

upgrades change the libraries and won't be recognized

if one rolls back to a previous version.


Also, using the full installer, you sure to be replacing

all the files and not overlook some old baggage that

the updater may have missed.

Oct 12, 2011 8:36 AM in response to e4effect

I'm having the same problem with a Buffalo Linkstation LS-WTGL/R1-V3 NAS and iTunes 10.5 on both Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Windows XP.


It's not quite an endless loop, though. It takes about 20 seconds, then the song listing flashes briefly on the screen but goes immediately to the local Music listing in the Library. If I right-click on the NAS's entry and choose "Open in a New Window", the window opens, shows the barber pole throbber for about 20 seconds, then closes, again going back to the local Music listing.


There's about 117GB in the iTunes Music folder on the NAS.


This worked fine under iTunes 10.4.x.

Oct 12, 2011 11:04 AM in response to Diesel80

Agreed. I can access all of the files on the NAS via Netatalk/AFP just fine. The problem only occurs in iTunes. And it happens with the Windows version of iTunes as well, so the problem seems to be in code common to both implementations, not an OS-specific component (such as the newer Netatalk 2.2 that was introduced in Lion... I'm not even running Lion).

Oct 12, 2011 11:30 AM in response to Diesel80

Diesel80 wrote:


I am able to access all my other files with using NetaTalk, I don't think NetaTalk is realted to the issue.

If so, that's sad.


I'll look around and try to reproduce the issue.


Lupunus

Diesel80 wrote:


I am able to access all my other files with using NetaTalk, I don't think NetaTalk is realted to the issue.

iTunes 10.5 does not load shared library files

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