NAS, a Mac and a PC
I've just implemented a Western Digital World Book NAS drive on my home network.
After royally messing up my library (by not searching this forum on how to move my library to the new location) and a week of painstakingly re-linking a lot of my files on my Mac, I've got everything working well.
It's slower than I'd like, but I realize that it's a tradeoff to be able to share the songs across multiple computers in the house.
After getting my library "fixed" - I went to add the library to my wife's Toshiba PC.
That all worked well.
The next time I opened iTunes on my Mac - there were broken links again ⚠
I realized that it must have something to do with the length of the file names - because the vast majority of broken links were for tracks with long album titles or song titles. (example: "A Love Supreme: Part 1 - Acknowledgment")
My guess is that my wife's computer - being a PC - shortened some file names which in turn broke the links for my Mac iTunes. I disabled her setting for "Keep Files and Folders organized" and I'm slowly going back through and fixing the tracks with broken links ⚠ .
I wanna be sure that I've isolated the source of the issue before I do all of this again and find out that I still have the same problem.
I plan to use the Mac as the entry point for any new music into the library.
I'm experimenting with disabling the "Keep files and Folders organized" on my mac - but i've just added a few individual tracks from unrecognized promo singles and had to manually add the songs to the correct artist folders.
Should I Keep Files & Folders Organized on my Mac only?
Any help or discussion about this issue would be great.
Thanks in advance.
After royally messing up my library (by not searching this forum on how to move my library to the new location) and a week of painstakingly re-linking a lot of my files on my Mac, I've got everything working well.
It's slower than I'd like, but I realize that it's a tradeoff to be able to share the songs across multiple computers in the house.
After getting my library "fixed" - I went to add the library to my wife's Toshiba PC.
That all worked well.
The next time I opened iTunes on my Mac - there were broken links again ⚠
I realized that it must have something to do with the length of the file names - because the vast majority of broken links were for tracks with long album titles or song titles. (example: "A Love Supreme: Part 1 - Acknowledgment")
My guess is that my wife's computer - being a PC - shortened some file names which in turn broke the links for my Mac iTunes. I disabled her setting for "Keep Files and Folders organized" and I'm slowly going back through and fixing the tracks with broken links ⚠ .
I wanna be sure that I've isolated the source of the issue before I do all of this again and find out that I still have the same problem.
I plan to use the Mac as the entry point for any new music into the library.
I'm experimenting with disabling the "Keep files and Folders organized" on my mac - but i've just added a few individual tracks from unrecognized promo singles and had to manually add the songs to the correct artist folders.
Should I Keep Files & Folders Organized on my Mac only?
Any help or discussion about this issue would be great.
Thanks in advance.
20 iMac G5 / 80GB iPod (but waiting for full screen iPod w/o phone) :)
