Album for multiple libraries?

Is it possible to have an album or smart album that uses pictures from multiple libraries?

Afraid not. You can only have one database open at a time.
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TD

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Support for multiple libraries...?

Hi, I have a question as how is the best way to manage y music libraries given my usage scenario.
First let me set the context of what I have. I have over 35GB of ripped music, that resides in an external drive. Currently this music is available through my iTunes application, but it is NOT part of my lybrary (meaning I imported but did NOT copy it into the library). I do NOT want to have 35GB of music in my notebook's HD.
My iTunes library is in my local HD (music folder). This is a small file that basically has the 'podcasts' and the 'artwork'.
What do I want? I would love to keep all my music and videos on the external drive, and have my podcasts in my local HD. This way when I am on the road, I can update the podcasts, without having to carry with me all my music.
This all works fine the way I have it now, except that every time I rip a new CD or buy music from the iTunes Store, they go to my local HD and not my external drive.
Any ideas on how to work this out? I would love support for multiple libraries, but I don't thnks it's possible as far as I looked into it.
Thanks SO much!

This all works fine the way I have it now, except that every time I rip a new CD or buy music from the iTunes Store, they go to my local HD and not my external drive.
Set the 'iTunes Music folder location' (Preferences>Advanced>General) to the music folder on your external.
The next time you rip a CD or purchase music, it will be stored there.
Note: the 'iTunes Music folder location' is not the folder where your music is, but the location where iTunes stores imported music (and added music when 'Copy files to.....' is checked)
If you ran iTunes once with your external drive not attached/mounted, this location is reset to the internal drive.
iTunes 7 has support for multiple libraries. Press and hold the Option-key on launching iTunes until a window pops up which asks you to choose a library or create a new one.
Libra and iTunes Library Manager both work with iTunes 7 and older versions. They also save the preferences for every library you created.
Hope this helps.
M
17' iMac 800 MHz, 768 MB RAM, 200 GB HD, DL burner Mac OS X (10.4.8) iTunes 7.0.1

Sync albums from multiple libraries??

Hi,
I use multiple iPhoto libraries to faster handle my photos with the app, iPhoto Buddy. Does anyone know how I can sync albums from different libraries with my iPod photo?? I'm out of ideas...
Any help is greatly appreciated.
-SS

I figured out a way to do it. For anyone having the same issue...
Create a main folder to store photos for your iPod-- ("iPod photos") and put it where you want it (I actually put it on the hard drive part of my iPod).
Create a folder inside that one named for any albums you want to sync.
Drag photos from iPhoto (select every photo in the album) into the folder you've created for that album.
In your iTunes prefs, set your iPod to sync photos with the new folder you've created, where ever it may be and that should do it.
First sync will take a while....
Hope that's helpful.
-SS

Multiple Preferences for Multiple Libraries?

Now that I'm able to create multiple libraries with iTunes 7, I'd like to be able to have a different set of preferences for each library. That is, I'd like to have my local hard drive's library to copy files to the iTunes Music folder when I use it while refraining from copying while I use my external hard drive's library. As I understand it, preferences are user-based, so I can't figure out how to do this.
When I used Libra previous to iTunes 7, it was able to handle this. Any ideas about how to do this using iTunes 7 solely?
Thanks
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wow Addison that link you posted saved my life (and sanity!) it actually stopped the crashing of iTunes thanks so much!!

Feature request: Support for Multiple Libraries (like in iMovie)

From the threads, I can tell this topic was raised by many for many years. I would like to propose support for multiple iPhoto libraries -- or more specifically, the ability to distribute media across different storage devices.
There is a huge gap between my spacially limited MBP 250 GB SSD and my external 4 TB HDD. I am aware that I can juggle two separate libraries in iPhoto but it's just not practical and the moving of media between the libraries is not a simple drag and drop effort but involves exporting and importing with me having to clean up on one side or the other.
iMovie has had support for several libraries for a long time presumably because the sheer size of media in the video realm gave the iMovie team little choice.
I can't be the only one having this itch, right?

Again, you need to clarify your terms
Aperture can move master photos files around. With Aperture you can write additional metadata to the original file.
You don't need multiple libraries to thematically arrange photos, though. A simple keywordign system will do that.
So in Aperture I don't have to restart into different libraries?
You can have all your photos in a sinble library with the master files stored off-disk easily. You can relocate them from disk to disk too. However, if you;re doing presentations that is probably not necessary if you generate good quality previews. I'd ask about these things on the Aperture forum for more.

Supposed support for Multiple Libraries in iTunes 7

Come on Apple, your website says iTunes 7 supports multiple libraries in multiple locations, yet there is no way to enable a second library or create additional libraries through iTunes. Is this just hype about the tedious manual workaround of not having iTunes copy everything to one location? When will we get true multiple libraries? This is sorely missing functionality for anyone with a harddrive smaller than 250GB.
Quoted from http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/
"Multiple Libraries
Build your collection over multiple libraries, and keep them on different hard drives to save space."

I think there are a large number of us who are in the "for some reason" category: we want to have our libraries split across multiple HD's.
Here's my exact scenario:
I have a small portion of my library stored locally on my PowerBook for when I am on the road (~30GB). I have the bulk of my music collection stored on an external drive at home (~160GB). I have another set of tracks that are works in progress that my band is in the process of writing/recording, stored on a 2nd external drive at our studio (~10GB). I want to be able to plug in any of the external drives, and have access to that content whenever I am at home or at the studio, without having to change the local library stored on my PowerBook.
Consolidating the library does not help at all in this scenario - not only does the complete library not fit on my PB's hard drive, but I also don't want the reverse, which is to consolidate to one external drive which I'd then have to carry around everywhere. iTunes should be smart enough to recognize different library files concurrently, and store the import/organize settings per library. I guess that's too much to ask...

Support for multiple libraries on iTunes server

Hi All
I need help to understand if the following is possible, and if so, how I can best go about getting this working.
I have all of my music on my server, which iTunes can see. Why I try and use Homeharing on my iPad it just takes too long to create the music library on the iPad (i waited about 3 minutes and gave up). Therefore I had an idea. Currently all of my music is in a library called My Music. What I was thinking was that if I could seperate the music out so that multiple libraries were available via Homesharing on the ipad i could choose a suitable library, and not have to wait to load the entire music library each time.
Therefore, I thought I'd start with an easy split - creat a library of music for my young daughter. That way she can have access to her music, and I never need to see it within my library. I 've gone into itunes to create a new library for her music, but the only way i can se to create a new library is to log on as a different usr in iTunes.
All i ultimately want is a solution whereby i can have multiple libraries available whenever we open up the Homesharing option in iPad / Ipod Music player app. Is this possible?

As of this morning I can't get Home Sharing to work on either of my iPhones. It gets stuck at 3/4ths the way through and I can watch my battery percentage drop in front of me. My phones get warm trying

Shortcut for multiple libraries?

I know I can launch multiple libraries by holding down the shift key when launching iTunes.
I would like to be able to launch the individual libraries with a shortcut on the desktop. Is there a way to do this? If I double click on the itl file, it just launches the last library that was opened, not the library that belongs to the itl file.
I am using iTunes 9.3.
Thanks

Chris is wrong.
I wrote a program so that you could create a shortcut to launch a particular library. See
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8610941&#8610941
NOTE, however, I have not tested it with iTunes 9.0.3. I suggest you use the "-b" switch, or manually make a backup of the iTunesPrefs.xml file.

Fastest way to export Albums from Multiple Libraries?

I'm probably the only MAC user on the planet who has somehow created over ten iPhoto Libraries each with many many albums, containing about 25,000 photos -- many of which are duplicates. I am using an iMAC with OSX 10.7.5 and iPhoto '11 9.4.3
GOAL: I want to upload all photos to my external drive. I don't want any of them ever to be in iPhoto. I want to keep them organized by the ALBUM names.
PROCESS: I've been opening each Library and selecting all photos from each album then exporting them to my external drive as maximum quality, full size, with album name sequential. It was working for a while .....
PROBLEM: Now, I get error message saying "Unable to create" and yet some of the photos did upload. I've tried this using all the different options and also tried uploadidng to desktop instead of external drive. Nothing works! Also, I want to keep the original date of the photo but it is changing them all to today's date as the date created!
QUESTIONS:
1. Why does it upload some successfully then stop? Is there a limit on the number of files I can export at a time? Why doesn't the error message say THAT then, Apple?
2. Is there away to keep the photo's original date when exporting (given the process is successful, ha ha)?
3. Is there an easier way to achieve my goal? I tried iPhoto Library Manager that claims to consolidate libraries by album name, but it did not consolidate them all, it gave me a bunch of empty albums and duplicate albums. So now it is one more of my 15+ libraries.

When I export photos, the date changes to the current date. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
I'll guess neither. You're looking at the date on the file and that's not the same as the date on the Photo.
There are two kinds of metadata involved when you consider jpeg or other image file.
One is the file data. This is what the Finder shows. This tells you nothing about the contents of the file, just the File itself.
The problem with File metadata is that it can easily change as the file is moved from place to place or exported, e-mailed, uploaded etc.
Photographs have also got both Exif and IPTC metadata. The date and time that your camera snapped the Photograph is recorded in the Exif metadata. Regardless if what the file date says, this is the actual time recorded by the camera.
Photo applications like iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, Picasa, Photoshop etc get their date and time from the Exif metadata.
When you export from iPhoto to the Finder new file is created containing your Photo (and its Exif). The File date is - quite accurately - reported as the date of Export.
However, the Photo Date doesn't change. The problem is that the Finder doesn't work with Exif.
So, your photo has the correct date, and so does the file, but they are different things. To sort on the Photo date you'll need to use a photo app.
I'm not sure why you want to do this thing of exporting everything and moving them to an external, but the fact that the Finder doesn't understand metadata and is poor at working with Photo files is a factor you'll need to take account of.
3. AFAIK Library Manager does work with video.
4. There's no simple answer to that. Varies depending on whether you're talking about the original, the preview or the thumbs. When you say "all over the place", where are you looking?

How to store vaults for multiple libraries on one drive

Does anyone know if one can have a vault for three different Aperture libraries on the same external drive? The prompt says something about erasing all vaults.

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Photostream support for multiple libraries

I understand that Photostream can only be linked to one library at a time. Does Aperture solve ths problem? I have not purchased Aperture yet, but I will if it can solve my problem. I want to spilt my libraries up, because my single library of 30 000 photos is running quite slowly, however I wish to keep all my current photosreams live.
Thanks

I understand that Photostream can only be linked to one library at a time. Does Aperture solve ths problem? I have not purchased Aperture yet, but I will if it can solve my problem.
You can only have one photo library sync with the Photo Stream; that is a feature of iCloud and independent of using iPhoto or Aperture.
You can continue to use the Photo Streams you set up in iPhoto, if you switch to Aperture - if your iPhoto version and Aperture version are compatible, you can use your iPhoto library with Aperture.
. I want to spilt my libraries up, because my single library of 30 000 photos is running quite slowly, however I wish to keep all my current photosreams live.
Slowness of iPhoto or Aperture is usually not caused by the size of the library, unless your system drive is dangerously full and you have not enough free working space left on your system drive. How full are your drives - less than 10GB space? And where is the iPhoto library located? On an external drive or the system volume? If external, how is the drive connected?
Have you tried if repairing the library will help? See: iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto library
I'd try the repair permissions or repair database first, before going for a full rebuild.

Common Keywords for Multiple Libraries

Hello,
I have a number of iPhoto libraries, each of which has its own set of Keywords. I now want to use a single set of Keywords to all the libraries. Is there a way to do this without having to manually edit the Keyword preferences for each library?
Thanks.
Mike

Hello Terence,
I have no idea who Kevin is! Sorry about that. Now that I have the name straight, maybe I can get my message straight!
I understand that the keywords are part of the iPhoto database. My goal is for all my libraries to share a common list of keywords. Specific pictures in a library would be assigned applicable keywords from the common list. Thus, keywords for particular pictures will be different in almost all cases. This difference is why I don't see how to avoid having to assign the specific keywords on a picture by picture basis.
Thanks for the Keyword Manager link. It gets great reviews and I think it could be very helpful for what I am trying to do. However, KM 1.4.1 fails to install on my iBook G4, OS 10.4.11. I have posted this to Bullstorm and it looks like I need to install SIMBL in order for KM to install. From my web searches it looks like SIMBL could lead to headaches with future software upgrades. After I update my keywords, I plan to upgrade from iPhoto 6 to iPhoto 8 and then later this year I will move to OS 10.5. Assuming no other changes do you think this will lead to problems with SIMBL?
Thanks for your help and patience!
Mike

Combine Play Count for multiple libraries?

Apologies if this has been discussed recently. I tried searching and didn't find anything.
I have iTunes installed on my home desktop (Windows Vista), my laptop (Windows XP) and my work computer (Mac). Each computer has a different library, but there are many common songs. I'd like to combine the play counts so my home desktop shows the total number of times I've played each song. Is that possible without making the libraries on each computer identical (which would be impossible because my laptop hard drive isn't big enough)?
Thanks for any help.

No, I am afraid Home Sharing won't owrk for this. It only works on a LAN and it only sync tracks not counts.
I am afraid iTunes does not do this. Apart from getting into some fairly complex programming in a scripting language using the iTunes COMS interface, I don't see how this could be done.

Opinions please: Multiple libraries

Hi,
Please give me your opinion if you have some experience of libraries
What's the best solution for multiple libraries. I can see there are a number of solutions.
I have not the money to buy them all or spend ages trying them all out, and I don't know even if I should use them. Should I stick to iTunes only options?
Some involve buying software allowing user menus, but I would like to know any disadvantages that anyone has come across.
Here's my requirements:
All libraries stored on my NAS unit.
I want to create a library containing all my music.
From this I want to create 4 libraries that are subsets of the main library which will allow me to simply select aone library at a time for my iPhone.
Finally my wife has her music on her laptop. Can I copy her protected files into my library and get her to authorise it - or is there a better way?
Thanks
Flobbyblob

+"Finally my wife has her music on her laptop. Can I copy her protected files into my library"+
Yes.
+"...and get her to authorise it"+
I don't know; that is between you and her. But if you want to play protected tracks, the computer must be authorized to the account from which they were originally purchased.
+"...or is there a better way?"+
Yes. Don't buy protected tracks and then you will not need to worry about authorization at all.

Multiple libraries, Pbook/Pmac, advice for management & updating please.

Hi Everyone,
I travel frequently, and am looking for suggestions to keep all my iPhoto libraries up to date. I currently have a g5, Powerbook, and Mini.
I just upgraded to iPhoto 6 and I have several thousand photos on my Dual g5. I just came back with 1000 more from my diving trip. The problem is, they are on my Powerbook, and taking up alot of space on the relatively small hard drive. I managed to work through the rough upgrade from 5 to 6, and now I need some more help...
1) What is your advice for managing multiple libraries of photos.
2) What is the best way to transfer the iphoto pics (and movies) to my desktop, which of course has the larger storage capacity, after travelling...
Thanks,

Jason:
There are several different approaches to what you want to do. Let me just throw out a couple that I'm familiar with.
To get the new photos from your PB to your G5 and maintain any keywords, and other organization effort you put into them, you'll need the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager. It will allow you to merge libraries or copy between libraries and maintain the metadata, etc. That's the only way currently available to move photos from one library to another and keep the roll, keywords, comments, etc. with those photos. You can connect the two Macs with one in the Target Mode, probably your PB, and then run iPLM to move the photos to the G5 library.
Now there is a way to have a library on your PB that reflects the one on your G5 but is only a fraction of the size. That's to have an alias based library on your PB that uses the Originals folder as its source of source files. (My 25,600 files, 27G, are represented by an iPhoto Library folder of only 1.75G). When the PB is not connected with the G5, say with a LAN, it will have limited capabilities which are in part: you'll only be able to view the thumbnail files, be able to add comments, create, delete or move albums around, add keywords (but with some hassle-but it can be done). You can't do anything that requires moving thumbnails around, work with books, slideshows or calendars. Once the two computers are networked together again the library will act as normal.
Now while on the road you can have a "normal" library to import new full sized files, keyword them, add comments, etc. and then transfer to the G5 library. Once in the G5 library they will be represented in a roll(s) and corresponding folder in the Originals folder. You then fire up the "alias" library, and import those new folders in the G5 Originals folder.
It may be a lot of work but it may be one way of doing it.
I've not done any of the "sharing" with iPhoto so don't know if that's another possible candidate for transferring.
P.S. FWIW I've created this workflow for converting from a conventional library to an alias based one.

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