iTunes with remote music server

[yoggod]

I have all my music stored on a remote pc server, and access it via iTunes on my powerbook. I can change the location of my iTunes music folder to the music folder on the server in the advanced preferences options. However this automatically reverts back from time to time - is there any way to stop this from happening?

I have also recently found that iTunes is not "seeing" new music on the server even though the iTunes music folder is set to the server. I can manually import these individual albums, but it is a pain in the arse :upset: Why can't I automatically access them in iTunes?

Thanks in advance for any help...

[Big Jim]

I have all my music stored on a remote pc server, and access it via iTunes on my powerbook. I can change the location of my iTunes music folder to the music folder on the server in the advanced preferences options. However this automatically reverts back from time to time - is there any way to stop this from happening?

I have also recently found that iTunes is not "seeing" new music on the server even though the iTunes music folder is set to the server. I can manually import these individual albums, but it is a pain in the arse :upset: Why can't I automatically access them in iTunes?

Thanks in advance for any help...



Hi yoggod,
the music on the PC is added to from iTunes on the PC or some other way, so iTunes on the Powerbook never sees the new stuff, it would if you added it through iTunes on the Powerbook. Why? Well you tell iTunes to use a specific path to the music, fine but iTunes keeps it's database and playlist info in two files in your ~/user/music folder and they only get updated by the Powerbook iTunes.

You need to think of it it two parts, the front end is the iTunes you access the music from and the back end where the music is stored, any new music should be added from the front end because that is where all info is stored.

[yoggod]

Thanks for the reply. In the past I tried putting new music on via iTunes on the powerbook, but because of the first problem (reverting back to default) it means that every time I want to put music on I have to reset my prefernces first. Or the music ends up on my powerbook.

Oh well :blush: I guess this is no great hardship for what is otherwise a fantastic system...

[Buzz]

The problem is iTunes simply isn't programmed to work like a music server.

The preferences resetting are symptoms on other system problems. How long has it been since you repaired disk permissions?