iTunes library on WD MyCloud

To make sure you do understand how to move your libraries, you do not do it in preferences. You do it by copying the whole iTunes folder and then starting iTunes with the option key held down and guiding it to the new location of the library.itl file on the external.

You will need to reformat the drive to a Mac compatible format first.

The drive will always have to be on and mounted before using iTunes.

Your backup should include your external as long as you have it all correctly configured. It's too nebulous at this stage to comment on specifics.

In theory all should work as planned. In reality you would have to hope somebody who uses the exact same device as yours in the same way comes by the forum and responds. Sometimes problems with external devices are not so much related to iTunes use as general network or Mac compatibility problems and you'll likely see more posts on that in other forums or even other support sites (such as for the manufacturer's site).

Could you tell me, after exporting music I'll still have songs rating, and other things, like on my normal HDD?

Yes it will retain those items if used with a single computer but if you use the drive with more than once computer you will need to export the whole iTunes folder and not just media.

I was thinking of doing exactly the same (moving iTunes and iPhoto) as you liam and have purchased the same 3TB WD My Cloud.

Were you successful? any advice?

Cheers!

Hi - Im planning to do the same using the WD My Cloud Mirror (so I automatically have a back up). Did it work for you? Thanks

Same kind of issue here...thoroughly confused by the final result in Itunes though...

I had (still have) my main Itunes library on an external 2gb Passport drive... been that way for ages and all fine but i recently purchased a WD 4TB Mycloud drive as I wanted to share my media with Apple TV AND an Amazon Fire TV (Bought AFTV because ATV doesnt support Amazon Prime Media) so wanted to migrate my Itunes media onto that as the sole device which means I can stream without tying up the MAC for AFTV plus with a Gigabit connection it should ensure optimum streaming for me as the Passport drive is connected via FW.

So I initially I just changed the Preferences to point to the WD MyCoud drive and selected Yes to the keep things organised (as it said to do here : iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder - Apple Support ) ... to me that meant my media was on the WD drive but that the library files .ITL etc were still on the passport drive. Everything went over ok but I have noticed that a lot of the media when I do cmd-I it shows it as being on the passport drive still (I haven't deleted it from there yet just in case i lose things!) ..and some of it shows the WDMycloud file location .... confusing...so I have no idea where it is serving the media from ...but want it all to be from the WD Device

Should it not have updated everything to have the 'file' location be the WD MyCloud drive though ?

I'm tempted to delete ALL the items in Itunes and move them all to trash and simply get it to rescan everything.... as a check I did move my old ITUNES passport folder to Trash but whatever I do it seems to know where this data is and it uses the new path (even .trash/... ) in the Info for the items...aarrghhh

Somewhat confused about whats going on I confess...

I have also tried moving the .ITL file to the WDMyCloud drive and doing the Alt click as I open Itunes and having it Change the library to the WDMyCloud but that doesnt seem to make any difference to things above...

Its all very very confusing .... should be simpler than this should it not...

I have migrated my iTunes library file and media files to 6tb My Cloud. The big issue for me is that when I boot up the Mac it cannot find the iTunes file automatically. I have to click on the WDMy Cloud Public Alias icon and re-connect the folder then find the iTunes library file and start up iTunes. Not something I want to do everyday. iTunes worked fine on an external seagate drive (2tb) but won't walk seamlessly on the WD My Cloud NAS. It looks like the WD My Cloud is going to be either a 6TB brick or somewhere I can dump archive files or backups.

In short, the WD My Cloud was a big disappointment. I obviously didn't spend enough time researching what it could do. The problem became obvious after I got it and hot Google for the solution - there doesn't seem to be one.

Make sure your Mycloud drive is included in your Login items so it mounts at startup.

Pardon my ignorance, but how do you include the WD MyCloud drive in your Login Items?

The drive must be formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled), is it?

With reference to OSX 10.4.11:

System Preferences > Accounts > Login items tab > + to add an item > Click the highest level of drives on the left so your computer is selected and displays the drives on the right, select the desired drive and Add

Is there a way that when you buy music from itunes it automatically goes on the mycloud ?

If it is designated as the Media folder location in iTunes preferences, yes.

Is there a way to do something similar (auto mount the My Cloud device) in a windows environment? I'm running into the same issue, not being able to find the drive on my network through iTunes after moving my iTunes\Media file there. Very frustrating so far.