1. Go to a Best Buy store or newegg.com.
2. Find a really huge hard disk that supports either USB 2 or
Firewire 800. This should cost about $150 if you go to the two
terrabyte size.
3. Make a partition for your music collection on the disk after
you get home or it arrives from UPS.
4. Move all of your songs to the big disk.
5. Follow the instructions on the Apple site for moving a music
library within iTunes (the iTunes notion of a "library" is actually
a set of XML files that tell iTunes where to find the actual music
but there is a very specific order, detailed on the web site, one
must follow to make sure that iTunes finds your music.
Fortunately, none of the steps can destroy your music files so
mistakes, while frustrating, aren't terribly hazardous.
6. Assuming you have a wireless home network, set both computers
to look for and present shared libraries. This will let you have
the big external drive on one Mac and it can be seen by everything
on your network, including, of course, an iPhone.
7. Take your entire CD collection and re-rip all of it into either
Apple Lossless or FLAC formats.
8. Go to audio Nexus (www.audionexus.com) and pick out a killer
new stereo that need only include an amplifier and speakers.
9. Buy an Apple Airport Express, set it up and run the RCA cables
into your new amplifier.
10. Tell iTunes that you want to play through your Airport Express
instead of the computer's speakers.
11. Enjoy the best sounding music you've ever had in your home.
Happy Hacking,
cdh
On Jul 31, 2009, at 3:41 AM, Steve Hurd wrote:
I had simlier issues when I tried to sync my iphone. I also have
another question. When I try to synk my music it said the library
on my iphone will be replaced by the library on my macbook. There
are no songs on my new macbook so if it replaced it iot would
replace it with nothing. My substantial question therefore is how
do I copy or sync the music on my iphone and move the songs to my
computer? Do I use the import library function?
Thanks,
Steve
On 30/07/2009, at 5:23 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
Hi,
I do not know if this is an iPhone, an iPhone/VO, an iMac or an
iMac/VO problem. Last night, for the first time, I synchronized
my iPhone with our iMac 24. I selected not to look at ring tones
but did elect to change the library with which the iPhone was to
sync with.
In the iPhone settings dialogue in iTunes, I changed a few things
(almost all in the Music tab) and let the process start. After a
while I would get an error that a program that I think is called
Mobile Services Helper (or something very similar) had exited
unexpectedly, "Ignore, Send to Apple, Restart," which reminded
me an awful lot of "abort, retry, ignore" back in the DOS days.
I then went to the software update menu item in iTunes (after a
few restarts) and found that I had not updated iTunes, Safari and
a handful of things I didn't care much about. I let the
installation procede and the Mac, as expected, restarted.
I reattached the iPhone and iTunes, as expected, came up. A
standard sync resulted in the same process crashing. Then (after
a few more reboots), I started eliminating options to isolate the
problem. In iTunes, when things seemed hung, I saw in the LCD
space that it was synchronizing Contacts. I unchecked contacts
from the sync list and everything started to acted as I would
have expected and a ton of music moved onto my phone but the
contacts on my phone did not populate the empty Address Book on
the iMac.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I'm not important or
useful enough to sign up for MobileMe as its cost outstrips the
usefulness of near immediate synchronization.
Happy Hacking,
cdh
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