Some iTunes help, please?

multimoog

I have a problem and I'm not very computer literate. I haven't seen anyone with my specific problem yet so here goes.

I have two iPods, a full-sized gen 5 video and a first gen nano. I also have several music libraries - one at work and one at home. I tried to copy the library I have at work to an external hard drive at home, by using the program Music Rescue. I specified in Music Rescue that I wanted to copy the music from my 'work' nano onto my external hard drive. The program did this - I can see all the new music I transferred from my nano in my iTunes Music folder on my external drive.

But when I open iTunes to play the music on my home computer, iTunes can't find any of the new music. Is there a way for me to locate the new music I transferred from the nano to my external hard drive so that I can play it it iTunes, and burn CDs of it and so forth?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Fristle

How to move your iTunes library to an external drive: You can move your iTunes-organized music collection (with all associated metadata) to an external drive if you want it to be portable or if you just don't have the space for it on your system. But this is neither a solution for backup (because the library still only exists in one place) nor sharing (do not open one library on an external drive from two different machines running iTunes).

Share one master iTunes music library between multiple systems on a local network:
Everyone suggests a different kludge to operate a single master iTunes database between systems, which it does not support (there is no lock to prevent concurrent access). Without a means to sync simultaneous write access, any of these setups could fail.

Edit: if one of your instances of iTunes can't find the music library you want, try holding shift (Option key on Mac) while you launch iTunes and it will give you the option to manually select the library.

multimoog

The problem I was having was that I had all my music in one folder, but iTunes wasn't able to recognize all the music in that folder.

The solution was ridiculously simple - I just draged the folder on my external drive that had all my music into the main window of iTunes. It was simple, and I was expecting a lot of menu-fiddling-around-with.

Snork

I'm having trouble with my iTunes as well. I can't burn CDs with it. It says that it doesn't detect my burning device, which doesn't make sense, because I've burned CDs with this computer using iTunes before. Is it because of a recent update or something?

Fristle

multimoog wrote: »

The problem I was having was that I had all my music in one folder, but iTunes wasn't able to recognize all the music in that folder.

The solution was ridiculously simple - I just draged the folder on my external drive that had all my music into the main window of iTunes. It was simple, and I was expecting a lot of menu-fiddling-around-with.

Ok well if that's what you did, then iTunes probably "imported" all of the music you dragged/dropped onto it (unless you have unchecked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" in the settings). You may have all of the files in two places now. If that's cool with you then that's fine.