Use iTunes Library on Two Computers
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From: Vincent Parry on 1 Aug 2010 10:01 I have my music collection (mostly imported CDs) in iTunes on my iMac. I also want it on my Windows laptop so I can play the music when I travel. I know I can set up a library sharing for use at home on when on my home network. But I want an independent installation for use when I'm not on my home network. Could I just copy the iTunes library folder over to the laptop? Or is there some protection scheme that will prevent that?
From: Philo D on 1 Aug 2010 13:54 In article <i33uo7$o7j$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Vincent Parry <vince(a)darkpassage.net> wrote: > I have my music collection (mostly imported CDs) in iTunes on my iMac. > I also want it on my Windows laptop so I can play the music when I travel. > > I know I can set up a library sharing for use at home on when on my home > network. But I want an independent installation for use when I'm not on > my home network. > > Could I just copy the iTunes library folder over to the laptop? Or is > there some protection scheme that will prevent that? You would have to authorize the second computer too. But that is allowed.
From: Richard Maine on 1 Aug 2010 14:12 Philo D <doozy(a)earthling.net.invalid> wrote: > In article <i33uo7$o7j$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Vincent Parry > <vince(a)darkpassage.net> wrote: > > > I have my music collection (mostly imported CDs) in iTunes on my iMac. > > I also want it on my Windows laptop so I can play the music when I travel. > > > > I know I can set up a library sharing for use at home on when on my home > > network. But I want an independent installation for use when I'm not on > > my home network. > > > > Could I just copy the iTunes library folder over to the laptop? Or is > > there some protection scheme that will prevent that? > > You would have to authorize the second computer too. But that is > allowed. That would be relevant only for DRM-protected music purchased from the iTunes store. For music imported from CDs (like much of my collection), you don't need any authorization. I don't think you need it for most recent iTunes store purchases either, but I haven't really tested that as I still have a few older DRM-protected things that never got updated, so I routinely authorize all the computers I want a copy on. The only thing I'm really unsure of is the bit about copying from OS X to Windows. I've got some copies of Windows around (including 2 separate ones on this Mac), but I don't use iTunes on them. The question would not be of copy protection, but rather of whether all the details of the library formats are the same. It might be safer to copy just the music and then let iTunes rebuild the library (as it can do). -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Vincent Parry on 1 Aug 2010 17:02 On 8/1/10 1:54 PM, Philo D wrote: > In article<i33uo7$o7j$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Vincent Parry > <vince(a)darkpassage.net> wrote: > >> I have my music collection (mostly imported CDs) in iTunes on my iMac. >> I also want it on my Windows laptop so I can play the music when I travel. >> >> I know I can set up a library sharing for use at home on when on my home >> network. But I want an independent installation for use when I'm not on >> my home network. >> >> Could I just copy the iTunes library folder over to the laptop? Or is >> there some protection scheme that will prevent that? > > You would have to authorize the second computer too. But that is > allowed. Yes, I did authorize it-- but I'm not sure where to go from here to get the music over to the laptop.
From: AES on 1 Aug 2010 19:32
In article <i34nd3$vd2$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Vincent Parry <vince(a)darkpassage.net> wrote: > Yes, I did authorize it-- but I'm not sure where to go from here to get > the music over to the laptop. I let others give you the detailed directions (I'm known to have a pathological hatred of iTunes). But you have to start by recognizing that the iTunes library file or folder on your HD is _not_ a library at all; it's just a catalog. The actual music is elsewhere. (Apple's insistence on muddying this point is one of the minor reasons why I dislike iTunes so much.) |