Sync iTunes to NAS

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Sync iTunes to NAS

Hello everyone,

quick question about iTunes and a possible ability to sync to a Synology NAS

I have a music folder on the NAS which i have 'mapped' and can use through finder 🙂

I am away from home a fair bit and take my mac with me but want to take my music also, so i am wondering is there a way to sync the music in the folder of my nas with my mac so that i can have a local copy, i have tried adding folder to library while 'copy files to iTunes media etc' is ticked and this copies everything to music folder on the mac, but if i add new songs to the has then i have to also add them manually to iTunes, is there a way to get this to happen automatically? or is there even some kind of 'close a has folder onto my mac' trick i could use, then just point iTunes to it

Thanks y'all 🙂

Posted on Jul 5, 2015 1:50 AM

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Limnos

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Jul 5, 2015 6:27 AM in response to DP Harris

Uh-oh. I foretell disaster. You need to learn the basics of how iTunes operates (in particular terminology since "mapping" is not an iTunes term and I have only the slightest idea to what it refers; and syncing is only something done with a mobile device), and you are using a NAS which can be very finicky with iTunes and may result in inexplicable behavior. I hope you have everything backed up regularly.

About iTunes library files - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201610 - Does not mention that a complete working library also includes other files and folders also in the iTunes folder.

More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management

What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html

Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391

iTunes 9 [and later]: Understanding iTunes Media Organization - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3847 - plus supplemental information about organizing to new structure https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6477809?answerId=26404702022#26404702022

Image of folder structure and explanation of different iTunes versions (turingtest2 post) - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7392 and making an iTunes library portable.

So, is your library on the NAS portable?

The one thing you can't do is "sync" part of a library to a different computer in terms of adding parts of one library and generating a new, secondary library from it.

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