Hi everyone,

I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.

Thanks

Danny

In article <dparker-36135D.19464420092006@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Danny Parker <dparker@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Danny

Not easily... perhaps the most straightforward is to have a single music
library and set it (using the iTunes/Preferences/Sharing option) as
shared... then it's accessible from either device.

Of course, that only works if the system with the shared library is up
and running (and local- if the shared library is on the desktop system
and the laptop is at home).

Alternatively, if you turn on Personal File Sharing in the Sharing
system preference on both computers, you will be able to access the
contents of each system's iTunes library from the other-- and manually
drag files from one to the other (which you can't do with the iTunes
library sharing I described earlier).

The awkward part of this is that you need to run the iTunes
Advanced/Consolidate Library command to update the library listing (or
use the File/Add to Library command to copy the file across the network
and add it to the library listing at the same time).

Maybe there are some 3rd party (free or shareware) utilities to simplify
this...

In article <dparker-36135D.19464420092006@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Danny Parker <dparker@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Danny

Not easily... perhaps the most straightforward is to have a single music
library and set it (using the iTunes/Preferences/Sharing option) as
shared... then it's accessible from either device.

Of course, that only works if the system with the shared library is up
and running (and local- if the shared library is on the desktop system
and the laptop is at home).

Alternatively, if you turn on Personal File Sharing in the Sharing
system preference on both computers, you will be able to access the
contents of each system's iTunes library from the other-- and manually
drag files from one to the other (which you can't do with the iTunes
library sharing I described earlier).

The awkward part of this is that you need to run the iTunes
Advanced/Consolidate Library command to update the library listing (or
use the File/Add to Library command to copy the file across the network
and add it to the library listing at the same time).

Maybe there are some 3rd party (free or shareware) utilities to simplify
this...

In article <dparker-36135D.19464420092006@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Danny Parker <dparker@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.

Well, the tech who set up my network when I got the laptop got my iTunes
library from the OS 9+ G4 into the OS X laptop's different iTunes to
begin with(I suspect he imported it), but I don't know how I could share
them between the two. I apparently can't even import the other direction.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar),
philologist, biblioholic medievalist

http://www.airstreamcomm.net/~erilarlo

In article <dparker-36135D.19464420092006@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Danny Parker <dparker@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.

Well, the tech who set up my network when I got the laptop got my iTunes
library from the OS 9+ G4 into the OS X laptop's different iTunes to
begin with(I suspect he imported it), but I don't know how I could share
them between the two. I apparently can't even import the other direction.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar),
philologist, biblioholic medievalist

http://www.airstreamcomm.net/~erilarlo

In article <dparker-36135D.19464420092006@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Danny Parker <dparker@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.

Slingshot, shareware from <http://www.martian.com/>.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
MondoMouse makes your mouse mightier
See http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse/

Danny Parker wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.

iPods can be used to do it now, too -- they just added the capability 8
days ago.

In article <dparker-36135D.19464420092006@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Danny Parker <dparker@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.

Slingshot, shareware from <http://www.martian.com/>.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
MondoMouse makes your mouse mightier
See http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse/

Danny Parker wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.

iPods can be used to do it now, too -- they just added the capability 8
days ago.

In article <YKqdnb-2spU65YzYnZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>, MacDork
<macdork@nospam.com> wrote:

> Danny Parker wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> > across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.
>
> iPods can be used to do it now, too -- they just added the capability 8
> days ago.

Only for music purchased from the iTunes store.

Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <YKqdnb-2spU65YzYnZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>, MacDork
> <macdork@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> Danny Parker wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
>>> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.
>> iPods can be used to do it now, too -- they just added the capability 8
>> days ago.
>
> Only for music purchased from the iTunes store.

Well, that stinks.

Thanks for the info, Dave. I didn't know that.

In article <YKqdnb-2spU65YzYnZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>, MacDork
<macdork@nospam.com> wrote:

> Danny Parker wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> > across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.
>
> iPods can be used to do it now, too -- they just added the capability 8
> days ago.

Only for music purchased from the iTunes store.

Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <YKqdnb-2spU65YzYnZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>, MacDork
> <macdork@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> Danny Parker wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
>>> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.
>> iPods can be used to do it now, too -- they just added the capability 8
>> days ago.
>
> Only for music purchased from the iTunes store.

Well, that stinks.

Thanks for the info, Dave. I didn't know that.

MacDork <macdork@nospam.com> wrote:

> >>> I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> >>> across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.

> >> iPods can be used to do it now, too -- they just added the capability 8
> >> days ago.
> >
> > Only for music purchased from the iTunes store.
>
> Well, that stinks.
>
> Thanks for the info, Dave. I didn't know that.

I think you can do this with Senuti, although I haven't tried it myself.
<http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/>

--
^Ï^

In article <YKqdnb-2spU65YzYnZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>,
MacDork <macdork@nospam.com> wrote:

> Danny Parker wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a laptop and a desktop and wish to sync my iTunes music libraries
> > across both computers. Is there anyway of doing this.
>
> iPods can be used to do it now, too -- they just added the capability 8
> days ago.

There are several free or shareware programs listed at
Versiontracker.com that can be used for this as well. See for example:

SuperSync: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29874