Q: Have iTunes recognize remote drive as local - not stream over internet
I live in a rural area with metered broadband, so usually download purchased movies/TV shows. I have an external WD My Cloud drive on the same wifi network as my MacBook Pro that I wanted to use for iTunes media since I ran low on space on the MacBook drive. I copied all my media files to the WD drive, then followed the process to create a new iTunes Library file on the WD drive and had it look there for media. It looked like this worked fine at first, but after a reboot all the files show up in iTunes with the little cloud and say the files are in iCloud. I rebooted again and made sure to connect to the WD drive before opening iTunes, but no luck - it still shows them as non-local. Since it says iCloud, I'm afraid this means iTunes will try to stream over the internet, rather than playing the local (to my network) version, chewing rapidly through my data cap. I tried one movie and checked my internet data tracker, it did appear to be doing a rapid climb, so pretty sure my fear is realized. Is there a way for me to make this work? If not, is anyone aware of a good program to manage a media library? Thanks!
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), iOS 10
Posted on Sep 27, 2016 12:33 PM