Re: Desktop and laptop itunes sync
- From: garth Humphreys <ghum01@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:54:11 +1000
Hi Nickus
You can import the library from your desktop to your laptop by ensuring that
sharing is turned on on both machines.
Go into iTuunes options by pressing control+commar. In here you will find a
sharing tab. If you enable sharing on both the machines, when you go back to
the sources list on your laptop, you will find that your desktop library is one
of the options in this list.
If you pick the desktop library in your sources list then F6 to the list view
of songs you can play them from the laptop. At this point you are only
streaming them across your network and they are not being added to the laptop
library.
To add them to your laptop library, while focus is on the list of songs, press
control+A to select all the songs and then if you tab a couple of times you
will find a Import button. This may then take quite sometime if you have a
large library.
You may also have to have the same iTunes account authorised on both machines.
I always have my laptop and desktop authorised to the same account so I don't
know how important it is to the above importing of songs. I would assume that
it is only necessary for those songs or movies etc that you have bought through
the apple store.
Once you have sharing setup you can set it to automatically sync new purchases
on one machine to the other.
I don't have my computer in front of me at the moment to check my instructions
but I think this is mostly right.
Oh and by the way, you do have to have iTunes open on both machines for any of
this to work. Sorry if I am stating the obvious.
There is also a drop down box just a tab or two past the list of songs where
you can tell iTunes to only load songs from the desktop library that aren't
already in the laptop library.
Good luck - once you play with it for a while I think you will enjoy the
usefulness of this feature.
There are other ways of doing this by just copying the whole iTunes library to
the laptop and then pointing itunes on the laptop at it but I think it is
worth getting sharing setup so that the new content you get in the future can
be very easily imported to both libraries.
Garth
On 18/02/2011, at 7:48 PM, "Nickus de Vos" <bigboy529@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all, i want to put all the music on my desktop on my laptop so that i have
> all my music with me when i go someware. I'm using itunes and want to know if
> it's possible to set up itunes on the 2 machines to sync my music libraries
> if i connect my laptop to my desktops network,
>
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