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Re: Beomaster 5 and iTunes how do you make your backup ?

jk1002 — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:41:31 GMT

I am using a NAS or lets say used. I have an older Imac with a "G" connection and it causes Itunes serious trouble. It gets very sluggish when files are not on the local drive. I tried initially having everything including the library files on the shared drive, then moved music and in th end movies to local as well.

I think it has to do with that it's trying to open these file to read coverart or someting like that.

Out of my experience, I wouldn't recommend it, maybe it's better with "N" but doubt that.

Re: Beomaster 5 and iTunes how do you make your backup ?

mbee — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:55:15 GMT

Or use a NAS (network hard drive) with itunes server : your second files will be accessible via iTunes on your network.

Re: Beomaster 5 and iTunes how do you make your backup ?

jk1002 — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:34:57 GMT

while you start itunes, push the "option" button down. this brings up a little pop up that lets you either choose another existing library or create a 2nd one.

You just have to point it to the right location, under preferences -adanved from the menu.

So you would run 2 libraries and would have to change between them when you start itunes.

I hope I got what you want right.

Cheers

Beomaster 5 and iTunes how do you make your backup ?

Olof — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:57:13 GMT

I would like to have a iTunes library just containing .aac files on my MacBook to sync with my BeoMaster 5, and a second one on a external HD containing the "original" .wav files and compressed .aac files, so I can copy the .aac files onto the iTunes library on my HD for sync.

Any idea how to manage this ? When I just made a copy from iTunes onto the external HD and then cleanup all the .wav files at my iMacBook Tunes library, I couldn play them anymore (got the message that the original files is missing). All the music pieces are ripped from CDs no one was bought at the iTunes shop.