Moving your iTunes library to a shared server

Silound · 02-26-2012, 10:19 AM

I'm no fan of iTunes, so I'm a little rusty on the latest cans and cants, but...

If your music is not digitally protected and in a generic format (ie, you didn't buy it from iTunes and the file is an mp3) , you could just copy the files directly over to the new server, and thus point iTunes on each computer to look into that directory for files. Things you bought via iTunes may not be sharable because of the DRM, so as far as I know the only way to get around that is to burn them to a CD and use some other software like WMP to rip mp3's back off the CD.

Sorry I can't be much more of a help on that.

02-26-2012, 10:19 AM	#2
Silound ex-CS Swamp Gorilla Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Somewhere in a swamp, south of sanity Posts: 802 Trading: (15)	Re: Moving your iTunes library to a shared server I'm no fan of iTunes, so I'm a little rusty on the latest cans and cants, but... If your music is not digitally protected and in a generic format (ie, you didn't buy it from iTunes and the file is an mp3) , you could just copy the files directly over to the new server, and thus point iTunes on each computer to look into that directory for files. Things you bought via iTunes may not be sharable because of the DRM, so as far as I know the only way to get around that is to burn them to a CD and use some other software like WMP to rip mp3's back off the CD. Sorry I can't be much more of a help on that. __________________ Back in black, and better than ever! You can't keep a good gorilla down! LSU Geaux Tigers!