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Q: transfer my itunes to external

I have an old iMac and have been recorded a lot of records and now it is time to get them off my hard drive and put my records onto an external.

I got a new macbook pro and wanted to carry my external around and use where ever I go.

How do you transfer my playlist and all the recorded records to external and them use that as itunes.ough

Can someone walk me through step by step?

I have tried several time and I get the exclamation point.

Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jun 28, 2012 12:08 PM

by turingtest2,Solvedanswer
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A:

Use the menu item File (or is it iTunes?) > Library > Organize Library > Rearrange files in the folder iTunes Media. This will move the files around a bit so that music files end up in:

G-DRIVE slim/iTunes (New)/iTunes Media/Music/<Artist>/<Album>

and is the "current" way an iTunes library is organized.

 

Close iTunes

 

Rename the folder iTunes as iTunes (Old) 

 

Rename the folder iTunes (New) as iTunes and then option-start-iTunes again, opening the library file G-DRIVE slim/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl

 

Your iPod will happily sync with this version of your library as if nothing had changed... As long as you leave iTunes set up like this it will be easy to move the library from one computer to another.

 

Check the summary tab of some sample tracks through your library. You should find that every track is stored somewhere inside G-DRIVE slim/iTunes/iTunes Media. The files inside iTunes (Old) are now redundant copies and the entire folder can be safely deleted

 

tt2

Posted on Jul 3, 2012 7:05 AM

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  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jun 29, 2012 10:04 AM in response to sturgissos
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    Jun 29, 2012 10:04 AM in response to sturgissos

    The problem with a rebuild is that your .wav files don't carry a tag.

     

    Your original sample file was:

    Artist: The Buzzcocks

    Album: A Different Kind Of Tension

    Track No.: 8

    Name: Money

     

    I presume iTunes has all this information right now, possibly more, but if you import it that file into a new library it will be entered as:

    Artist:

    Album:

    Track No.:

    Name: Money

     

    You would then have to reenter all the missing information.

     

    Any chance of a response to this?

     

    If so (library working on external) now would be a good time to check the summary tab of Get Info. again to see if the library is connected to the file on the internal drive or the external one. Just pick a single file that plays, press CMD-I, and read off the location from the summary tab. What have you got?

     

    tt2

  • by sturgissos,

    sturgissos sturgissos Jun 29, 2012 10:13 AM in response to Limnos
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    Jun 29, 2012 10:13 AM in response to Limnos

    well that worked but this will be process! I have spent days already though.

    so when I want to charge and synch my ipod, I will turn on my external and the ipod will synch from there with the play list?

  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos Jun 29, 2012 10:24 AM in response to turingtest2
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    Jun 29, 2012 10:24 AM in response to turingtest2

    Good point. I forgot about the .wav format.

  • by sturgissos,

    sturgissos sturgissos Jun 29, 2012 10:33 AM in response to turingtest2
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    Jun 29, 2012 10:33 AM in response to turingtest2

    so this is the screen as it plays now.

     

    so the songs plays when I draged the files over to the play list holding down the option key.

    the play list doubled but I deleted the tracks with the exclamation points.

    Screen Shot 2012-06-29 at 1.30.25 PM.png

  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos Jun 29, 2012 10:55 AM in response to sturgissos
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    Jun 29, 2012 10:55 AM in response to sturgissos

    The observation TT2 was making is you will see that the only information that transferred with the wav file was the file name which it used (by chance correctly) to name the track.  You do not, however, have any album name, artist, or other information.  Unfortunately you selected to use .wav format which does not store this information in the file and the information got left behind in the old iTunes library.  If you are content with this then fine.

  • by sturgissos,

    sturgissos sturgissos Jun 29, 2012 10:59 AM in response to Limnos
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    Jun 29, 2012 10:59 AM in response to Limnos

    if you have a better idea, please let me know before I start to transfer over.

    as it stands now, I have mostly wav and few imported Cds.

    I could burn the records again but what would I save as, not mp3.

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jun 29, 2012 11:07 AM in response to sturgissos
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    Jun 29, 2012 11:07 AM in response to sturgissos

    Sorry to repeat myself, but again this image suggests you haven't set things up right. When you try to access the same library from a different machine it is likely to fail. As it stands you appear to have lost Artist and Album details which I presume where there before.

     

    ExternalMac1.png

     

    It really should be possible to capture all the information from the original library and bring it over to the external drive in a way which will survive a move to another machine. The steps I gave were very specific. Varying them defeats their purpose.

     

    tt2

  • by sturgissos,

    sturgissos sturgissos Jun 29, 2012 12:32 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jun 29, 2012 12:32 PM in response to turingtest2

    how many pages ago tt2?

    Which link?

    I am lost and baffled!!!

    you think using a mac for years would give me an edge, but not with itunes!!!!!

    goal:

    to have all my .wav files on the external along with burned cds

     

    my play list on my itunes macbook pro.

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jun 29, 2012 12:54 PM in response to sturgissos
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    Jun 29, 2012 12:54 PM in response to sturgissos

    If I could afford the flights I'd happily do home visits...

     

    Are you happy with the hold-option-open-iTunes method by now?

    Can you open the working library on the internal drive?

    Am I right in thinking that that library has artist, album and track number information?

     

    If so we'll try to retrace the most recent step-by-step, but I suggest we do it in smaller steps and check closely along the way.

     

    tt2

  • by sturgissos,

    sturgissos sturgissos Jun 29, 2012 1:04 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jun 29, 2012 1:04 PM in response to turingtest2

    please come do the visit. I think itunes needs to make something better for .wav???? hmm

    yes I can do the click on itunes while holding the option button.

     

    I am at my store, but will be home in few, then I can have access to my internal on my orignal itunes library.

     

    Yes the original itunes, (itunes 7) has my original artist name with recorded records broken down by song.

     

    I will be back in few hours.

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jun 29, 2012 1:13 PM in response to sturgissos
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    Jun 29, 2012 1:13 PM in response to sturgissos

    Cool. I finish work in just over an hour and should be home in a couple.

     

    tt2

  • by sturgissos,

    sturgissos sturgissos Jun 29, 2012 3:53 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jun 29, 2012 3:53 PM in response to turingtest2

    ok

    back and created a folder in my external called ituned media

    I dragged over the itunes library and album art work folder.

    next?

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jun 29, 2012 4:10 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jun 29, 2012 4:10 PM in response to turingtest2

    With your current library working from the internal of the iMac can you please post a screenshot of iTunes > Preferences > Advanced tab so I can confirm your current settings.

     

    tt2

  • by sturgissos,

    sturgissos sturgissos Jun 29, 2012 4:19 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jun 29, 2012 4:19 PM in response to turingtest2

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  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jun 29, 2012 4:35 PM in response to sturgissos
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    Jun 29, 2012 4:35 PM in response to sturgissos

    Thanks...

     

    1. Close iTunes.
    2. Copy the file iTunes Library from the iTunes folder in your internal drive to the folder //G-DRIVE slim/iTunes/ so the full path to the file is //G-DRIVE slim/iTunes/iTunes Library
    3. Copy the folder Album Artwork from the iTunes folder in your internal drive to the folder //G-DRIVE slim/iTunes/ so the full path to the folder becomes //G-DRIVE slim/iTunes/Album Artwork
    4. Option-start-iTunes and connect to the library file at //G-DRIVE slim/iTunes/iTunes Library
    5. Test this library... Can it play any tracks?

     

    tt2

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