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Okay, I'm in a bit of a weird spot. I'm running iTunes 10 on OS X 10.8. All media is managed by iTunes, it's happy, everything's cool. What I want to do, however, is move the media library back off the external hard disk where it's lived for a number of years and onto a local hard disk. I'm just not sure the best way to do it; as far as I can remember, the way I got it out in the first place was to tell iTunes to move the library location and then organize my library so it was definitely all there. Do you think that would work in reverse?
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Aug 9, 2012 16:57
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I think you got the idea that I was personally going to do the copy; by organize my library I meant the option in iTunes, which would collate and move it over automatically. Or am I missing something? I don't intend to move any files that aren't in the library itself.
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Aug 9, 2012 21:02
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IUG posted:Then you want to do exactly what you said. Pick the new location, consolidate the library. Worked perfectly, thanks for the confirmation.
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Aug 10, 2012 17:05
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Choadmaster posted:It's puzzling to me why anyone would have unused files sitting around in their iTunes library. If that's the case though, go ahead and consolidate instead of doing a normal file copy... Actually, I think I did have a bunch of old files (to the tune of 150GB) stuck in the file structure of my library. That may or may not be related to what was going to be my original response to you, which is: Whether consolidating or copying, anything is better than my Windows>OS X migration, where the NTFS external hard disk threw up on itself and I ended up copying 40,000 songs manually over wireless using Home Sharing. (Aside: you never know how much you miss your music from artists whose name starts with the letter D until it is all gone.)
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Aug 11, 2012 20:37
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dissss posted:Is it just me or has the last update made iTunes take an age to launch on Windows? I mean I know my PC is getting old but this is ridiculous. If you have iTunes on external storage, moving it to a built-in hard disk or faster external hd would help a lot.
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Sep 24, 2012 10:01
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I sincerely hope I can turn off that album art view. I've been using the traditional library list for so long, I don't know what I'd do without it.
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Oct 27, 2012 01:42
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Betjeman posted:That was me, after several failed attempts at workarounds, the one I settled on was to add blocks of the smart playlist to "up next". Took a while to get it approaching the randomised order it used to appear in, but it's something. You can tell Up Next to just fill itself from a specific playlist. It's still not all the functionality of DJ, with its go back and forth lists, or the tweaked ratings-sensitive shuffle, but it's something.
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Dec 10, 2012 15:29
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What the gently caress, iTunes? First you sign out of iCloud randomly for "security" and then you yell at me repeatedly until I bother to dig my password out and fix your own mistake. All I want to do is play music.
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Dec 11, 2012 12:54
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beefnoodle posted:Can't help, but how did you get that view? I can't find how to get into column browser mode. View > Column Browser.
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Sep 22, 2017 21:36
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skull mask mcgee posted:It’s possible to love an album without loving every track tho It’s possible to care for your family but not love every one of your children
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May 28, 2018 08:09
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Update iTunes or get owned on Windows: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/attackers-exploit-an-itunes-zeroday-to-install-ransomware/
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Oct 11, 2019 04:09
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Rinkles posted:maybe software companies should have a way of communicating that hey this update actually f'ing matters I agree, I skipped over it initially (because why the gently caress does itunes still need me to restart my computer and then spend 10 minutes checking my library aglglglglglglgl), read the article and went gently caress in possibly apocryphal news it maybe fixed the thing where itunes skips halfway through some songs for no rhyme or reason?
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Oct 11, 2019 04:18
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Rinkles posted:Why does the taskbar shortcut always break after an update? (windows 10) because it's stupid and doesn't just do an upgrade in place, it just removes everything and then generates a desktop icon/start menu folder for the new stuff
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