How Do You Move An Existing Itunes Library To External Drive For Use By Multiple Computers?
Yeah, you can set your iTunes library to use a network drive, which is all you need to do. I swear there was just a lifehacker.com post about this, lemme look. Here it is.
I recently set up a USB drive connected to the Airport Extreme for a client of mine, and I learned a few things. First, if you’re expecting to be blown away by the speed of this thing, think again. It’s slow. Dog slow (and I was connected via ethernet!) For that reason, I might caution you against making this a primary drive for your media. It works fine and well for little transfers, but transfering 1GB seriously took an hour. For my setup, they just wanted a drive they could share files between, and some problems arose when they tried to save files (from Word) directly to the drive. These problems were solved eventually by changing the way the computers connected to the drive from AFP (Apple File Protocol) to SMB (Windows). Surprisingly, this also helped the speed issue a little, so that might be a good option to try out, if you run into trouble. You lose the built in automounting AFP gives you, but I figured out of a workaround. I disabled autodiscovery in the Airport Disk utility,
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