Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Every device does; I figured out that much, smile. Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world! Marlaina Lieberg 1guide...@gmail.com On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Charlie Doremus wrote: ever device you want to share music with must have iTunes Match activated

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Charlie Doremus
ever device you want to share music with must have iTunes Match activated. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Marlaina Lieberg <1guide...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ok then just what is iTunes Match? i thought it would centralize all my > music in the cloud and I'd be able to get it from any machine on wh

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ok then just what is iTunes Match? i thought it would centralize all my music in the cloud and I'd be able to get it from any machine on which I have iTunes. Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world! Marlaina Lieberg 1guide...@gmail.com On Jan 3, 2012, a

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Thanks; I'll have a play with this. Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world! Marlaina Lieberg 1guide...@gmail.com On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Yup. I'm not sure how else it could behave. If it can't find the NAS it has to go somewher

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Yup. I'm not sure how else it could behave. If it can't find the NAS it has to go somewhere to get its track list and generally users will want iTunes to keep setting that work rather than ones which fail. So opening iTunes without the NAS will fail and iTunes will 'fix' it for you by going bac

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
solved your problem... drum roll please. lets say your music server is about 60gb or so in size, abandon itunes match and just use itunes as is. each system should benefit from a direct copy of the contents of the itunes server drive you've built, ergo no connection to a network unless nece

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ok. Here's the deal. I use an MBP and a Mac Air. My husband uses his own MBP and iPad. We have all our music stored on a netgeer external server. I know it would be easiest if I had it all in one place and I thought that would happen once I signed up for iTunes Match, but that has served to

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
I have an idea. but before I present the idea to you lol, just clarify what machine you're using, disk space, what music you want? etc just so I can walk through the issue with you. lol. I use my MBP as an all in 1 system. audio handling, systems tools, data management, the lot. 500gb drive and

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Yikes, I'm drowning! I think I just have to keep switching back and forth, what a pain! Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world! Marlaina Lieberg 1guide...@gmail.com On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: I agree with chris here. I wonde

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
I agree with chris here. I wonder though if you can log into your main host via HTTPS or something like that so that you could log into your machine or storage device and still have an active host or directory structure for itunes. hmm will look into this. Going back to my work as an IT en

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ok, so if I launch iTunes and I'm away from home, when I return I must change the library location each time after I've been somewhere? The thing is, I don't want all that music on my MBP or my Mac Air. Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world! Marlaina Li

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Blouch
I think a higher level description is that iTunes will store your preference of library location and use it from then on when you launch. But, if it can't find your new special location (because it doesn't exist for some reason) it will revert back to using the standard location. So if you have

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-02 Thread Sean Murphy
Hi, Go to the desktop/finder. Press command + k. This opens the network connection dialog. Enter in the server name or the IP address of the server. EG: smb://192.168.1.1 This will open a new dialog. If a username/password is required, you will be prompted. If none is required, then you will

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-02 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Sean, Thank you so much but how do I do this? I don't even know where /volumes/directory is located or how to find it, not to mention what to do if the external server drive is not mounted. Reach within you, find the beauty of you, then share your light with the world! Marlaina Lieberg 1gui

Re: iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-01 Thread Sean Murphy
Hi, Make sure the external drive is mounted first. All mounted volumes are in /volumes directory. Sean On 02/01/2012, at 10:46 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Hi all. > > Can anybody tell me why neither my Air nor my MBP will believe me when I tell > them I want my libraries in iTunes locate

iTunes question re external file server

2012-01-01 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Hi all. Can anybody tell me why neither my Air nor my MBP will believe me when I tell them I want my libraries in iTunes located on my external server? I keep having to change this each time I open iTunes, no matter which machine I use. I have other questions about iTunes match, but will h