Changes to library

So I've imported all of my music onto my itunes library, and spent a lot of time renaming files, switching genres, relabeling artists and albums, etc. But I just realized that these changes aren't reflected in my actual "my music" file on my hard drive. Is there some way to export my library to my hard drive (not by creating a text file) so if I need to get a new computer, I don't have to spend all that time renaming and reshuffling files?
Thanks!

If you get a new PC, just make sure you move these 2 library files over to it.
What are the iTunes library files?:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732

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How do I stop Itunes from changing my library location

Is there just no answer to what should be a simple setting change?? No matter what I do, Itunes insists on changing my library location the instant there's any problem talking to my network share where all of my music is. This is absolutely ridiculous because this is on a laptop and there are times when the network connection is just not up yet, or whatever. Then it takes 10 minutes for me to change it back and let it figure everything out again. Has anyone ever been able to resolve this? I'd rather Itunes just return an error that tells me it can't read my library than to change it on me....

Have struggled with this issue in the past. In my experience, there is no simple, painless solution. I attempted to transfer my entire internal drive to my new external where there were copies of all the songs in place. Check to see how your library is organized on your network drive. Is it by media content (e.g. separate folders within /users/music/itunes/ folder such as Music, TV Shows, Movies, etc.)? Or are the various media types all lumped within a single iTunes Music Folder? If there is a discrepancy between your internal and external Library configurations iTunes struggles to cope. Can't say why this is the case, but I found that the only solution was to throoughly uninstall itunes via terminal (or using an app such as 'Amnesia'), reinstalling iTunes, and creating the library from scratch using files that are located on the external/network drive. I'm a moderately savvy programmer and I couldn't for the life of me get iTunes to build my library from an XML playlist that I modified to reflect the changed directory location of the new library on my external, but if you are more competent and patient than I am I'm convinced that the proper alteration of the Master library build would result in a seamless relocating of you media library as far as itunes is concerned. One last thing, make sure you click the 'I'll Add files myself later' option if you do choose to reinstall itunes just to cover your bases. sorry i can't give you a more helpful response--iTunes is a cruel mistress sometimes.
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Can you change your library back after reverting to 6.5 from 7

I was "forced" to upgrade to itunes 7 with a "new" purchase. All of my songs are garbled/distorted. I use a custom built PC for "recording only", and am finding this annoying especially since my UAD soundcards for
Nuendo work best with Quicktime (6.5) not QT 7 that you "have" to have to run the new itunes. So I downloaded the older "green" version and unistalled the "blue" 7 version. Looks great...though my library is still "blue" and cannot be played or recognized by my old "working" version. Anyone have a clue as to how to go about changing your library for recognition purposes?
I have a session tomorrow and am hoping to get this resolved before the day ends. Any help would be Christams to me. I want to hear my songs...and I want my old green itunes back...is my library forever locked in the "new" version?
This is the error I get: The title "itunes Library .itl" cannot be read because it was vreated by a newer version of itunes.

There never were any xml files in the Previous iTunes Libraries folder, only the itl file is needed.
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If you can't find a back up .itl file in the Previous iTunes Libraries folder don't worry there is another way.
So if you are giving up on the old v6 library, assuming you already copied the two library files to another folder, delete iTunes Liibrary.itl, then open iTunes.
iTunes should open and create an empty library, before you do anything else with your library, select Add Folder To Library and navigate to the folder where you saved iTunes Music Library.xml and import it.
This Apple article describes the process, but of course, you may not have save the xml file on the desk top.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313
I hope that this will work across iTunes versions as the xml file is intended for use by other programs, but I haven't seen anyone do this going back from 7 to 6.
See: What are the iTunes library files?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732

How do i change the library my iPod is synced to? I want to sync my iPod with my current mac book iTunes, but the message says I am synced with another library.

How do i change the library my iPod is synced to?
I want to sync my iPod with my current mac book iTunes, but the message says I am synced with another library.

Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities

How to change the library name..?

Hello guys
i wanna change the library name.
can any help me pls..?
Abdetu..

open your .pll file in forms builder and use save as to change the name, and regenerate the .plx from the new .pll and attach the .pll to your forms.
You probably need to reattach to all the forms that uses the old library if you plan to remove it completely.
Tony

Can I change the library's destination?

My work computer is getting bogged down with music files. I want to put Itunes in my new Laptop and make that my Ipod's final home. The problem is my laptop is very small "Sony Vaio T series" and the drive is only 40 GB partioned into two 20 GB. I want to put Itunes in an External Hard drive that would be dedicated to only to my Ipod. I installed Itunes on the external but I can't change Itune's music library to the external drive. It keeps setting the library on my little laptop's C drive that barely has any space left. Is there a way to change Itune's music library destination to my external drive? I'm not too worried about pulling the music off my Ipod because I have Ipod access so once I learn how to change the library's destination Ipod access can do the rest. Please help...Thanks

What you can do is hold the OPTION key just like iPhotos before clicking on the icon to open.
For example with me I had all my photos/videos stored on the Thunderbolt external drive. I held the option key then clicked on my Photos icon. Then it showed all the directories I had iPhoto librares stored. I assume once it opened it now going to remember that one by default.
EDIT - It does remember the location now as default. Now it Preferences you can now set it as the system default.
Hope this helps!

Changed iTunes library location....

I just changed my lib location. Created a new dir on the external HD, changed the preferences to reflect that in iTunes. However, when I get info or play one of the files it still goes to the old location to play the file. Thoughts?

The library.itl file is the central controlling file of iTunes. It contains the file locations. When you open this library it displays your content (as it know it) and playlists, etc. When you play a track it checks the file location in iTunes and goes and plays that file. If the file is not where iTunes thinks it is, you get a broken link.
You didn't change your library location. What you did was tell iTunes, in future, to put all media in a new location. Did it ask to move your old media, and did you say yes? If it didn't move it then you may end up with split media. Existing media is still where you put it (as seems to be the case from your description), new media will go on the external.
In general the above is not what most people want to do. To correctly move the "library" (I say collection so as to not confuse this with the library file) you want to drag the whole iTunes folder to the external and tell iTunes when it starts up where the new location is. This is assuming you have everything in a nice, neat package in that folder. Now if you're in an intermediate stage then things are messy, but you'll have to let us know where you various files are at this stage.
Some people only want to move their media. That's okay, but you have to know what iTunes is doing, and also realize it gets tricky when moving the collection in the future.

How to change the library path from development machine to application serv

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How to change the library location because i don't have enough memory in my internal hard disk

can i change the library location because i don't have enough memory in my internal hard disk

Hi ahmedmagdyelrasheedy,
It is not clear what library you are trying to move, but if you are running out of space on your internal hard drive the most likely culprits are your iTunes music and your iPhoto library. Either of these can be moved to an external hard drive making room on the internal.
For the iPhoto library see this article -
iPhoto: How to move the Library folder to a new location
To move the iTunes music see this article -
iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

TouchSmart IQ546T Music "Settings" won't allow me to change my library to itunes

I would like to use my Itunes Library instead of the HP Touchsmart Library, I've seen/read all the tutorials about changing the library under "settings" but the icon to click "Use my Itunes Media Library" is greyed out and won't allow me to change to that setting. I verified that the location of my library was in the "music" folder. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

There are a number of possible problems:
1. If you use Preview to copy the pix you might not have actually gotten the picture onto the Clipboard, so there is nothing to paste. You can check this by either "Show Clipboard" from the Finder's Edit menu, or try pasting first onto a new folder. If it doesn't paste into the folder let us know. It could be that you haven't gotten the desired picture "active" in Preview--if, for instance, it is an icns file you need to select the 128x128 icon and then click in the actual picture part of Preview's window, then copy.
2. If your picture is indeed on the Clipboard and will paste onto a folder, but you can't paste onto the drive because the wee GetInfo icon won't highlight you've got a permissions problem. I've had luck changing the icon by TEMPORARILY giving Everyone read and write permissions to the drive, using GetInfo.
As a last resort you will have to use the Terminal, there are several different things you can do, of various levels of complexity.
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Changing the Library Location

Because my computer is old and running out of disk space, I purchased a 250gig portable hard drive and moved all my photos and music to it for permanent storage. I have another portable hard drive for backups.
In iTunes I went to Preferences > Advanced and changed the Library location to the new iTunes Music folder on my portable hard drive. I noted the original location first and made sure I followed the same pattern, getting all the way down to the needed folder. But when I open iTunes the next time, I didn't have any music listed.
I didn't have time to mess with it this morning before work but I'm wondering how to fix this problem. Do I need to tell it to add a Library somehow?
Thanks for any input.

Followed the instructions at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
I've completed the move - from my iMac's internal hard drive to an external drive and everything is working fine. No worries or problems.
Now, the big question. On my computer's internal hard drive, I still have a the following folders
[myusersname]/Music
this folder contains every single artist and song in my iTunes
This same folder also contains a folder
[myusersname]/Music/iTunes
which, in addition to several other items (including the all important iTunes Library and Album Artwork folders) also contains another folder named
[myusersname]/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music
which also contains every single artist and song in my iTunes.
Now that "everything" is moved over to the external hard drive, can I delete either the
[myusersname]/Music folder (leaving the abovementioned iTunes folder intact to keep from deleting the subfolder)
or also delete the
[myusersname]/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music
I'm hoping to free up space on the internal hard drive.

HT1203 1 computer w/ a guest account & my account. Want to be able to allow the guest access to video/music but not to be able to change my library what is the best way to do this?

I have a PC I use at my vacation house. Need to know if there is a way to allow the guest account to have access to my iTunes library so that they can listen to music and/or watch movies either on the PC or streaming to my AppleTV. I just don't want them to be able to delete or change what I have set up. Is this doable?

I'm not 100% sure on how this works on a PC, but I would be surprised if it was different from OS X.
There is a possibility in iTunes, by having two user sessions active :
Login to one of the "regular accounts" (one that has full access to the iTunes library"). In iTunes, allow it to share all/some of its library.
Now, keep iTunes running, and just login to the guest account. (=> the existing session is not closed !)
In iTunes, you will find under shared music the iTunes (server) running on the other account, and it will stream whatever you have allowed to share from the account above.
People using this guest account will have "read-only" access to whatever you wished to be shared, and cannot change any (meta)data.
(only minus : need to keep one session running in the background)

DW won't let me change a library item "change will be discarded"

I built a site and I have library items for my logo and
navigation and some thumbnails. I want to use a different file/lbi
file for my header. When I delete the current library item and try
to put a new one in, I get this message: "making this change would
require changing code that is locked by a template or translator.
The change will be discarded." I honestly don't know what to do; I
really need to specify a different file for my header but it won't
let me, and I have over 100 pages and I made all thumbnails,
rollovers, and all links manually and the file that it's using
isn't working right. I just want to put the correct one in there; I
don't know how I can possibly build my site completely from scratch
- what can I do?
This is a related issue, but I'm not sure how: I have two
library items named the same thing in two different folders; some
files refer to one, some to the other, but I want them all to refer
to the correct one; I can't make change since I get that error
message. I'm confused about which file is which, I'd deleted one
before, then restored it...thank you so much for any help. I'm
trying to build my portfolio site for an art exhibition...

Happily. One of the pages of the site I'm having problems
with is
http://www.hopeedwards.com/TEST_new_website/Hope_website/assorted_art.htm
I also attached code for it. [note: the home/index page only
works in Firefox but the other tabs work in IE and Safari. Also,
everything is shoved down wrong in IE and it only looks right in
Firefox] I am running Adobe CS3 on an Intel based Mac Pro with
Tiger OSX 10.4. I'm having trouble with a couple library items. The
very top library item is logo_and_navigation.lbi - all was okay
with it except I somehow had a couple different copies of it in my
Library folder, so I moved one of them to a folder within the site
called "Trashes". Then I deleted that one because I didn't want two
copies and the logo and nav disappeared on some pages that used
that one. I reinstated it in the trashes folder. The pages that use
that located in the Trashes folder are the index, Assorted Art, and
Commercial Work. The ones that use the one in the Library folder
are Clue Series and About & Contact.
I would like them all to use just one file so I only have to
edit one file if I make changes. I've tried several things: I've
tried selecting and deleting the item in the documents and
inserting the proper copy. It won't let me. I get the message
"making this change would require changing code that is locked by a
template or translator. The change will be discarded." I've tried
doing a Find and Replace and replacing the word Trashes with
Library to specify the correct folder info but that doesn't work,
probably because it can't change code in the library item.
I had a similar problem with the thumbnails library items
when I tried to build my other pages doing a File Save As from the
first one I built in Assorted Art. When I tried to create a
Commercial Work page from it, I deleted the thumbnails library item
because it was the Assorted Art thumbnails. When I tried to insert
the Commercial Work thumbnails library item I got that error
message. It was so frustrating; I had to go in and build the
Commercial Work page from scratch. I had to do that with each
different tab. It just doesn't seem right that you can't swap out
library items.
Anyway, I'd completely appreciate any help or feedback! I
really would!
Hope

Changing iTunes Library to Another Pre-existing Library

*First some background-* My wife and I each have our own Apple laptops, and we repurposed her old HP PC as an iTunes server to house copies of all our media and sync with the Apple TV. Our laptops each have only our own music collections while the PC's library contains all of the music from both our personal libraries as well as all of our video content (which we do not keep on our laptops due to size constraints.) The PC's library is housed on a Drobo via a DroboShare. The PC is old and terribly slow, however, and watching content via the Apple TV that is streaming from the PC is an oftentimes painful experience. We have decided to ditch the PC and make my laptop the main iTunes repository.
*Now The Question-* What is the best way to make the larger, all-inclusive iTunes/Drobo library my laptop's library without losing all of my playlists and ratings that I have accumulated over the years that live in my laptop's library. If I change my storage location under Preferences and then Consolidate, will all of the media I don't have currently in my library get added, or will my library still only see what it knew about before, just stored in a new location now?
I apologize for the length, but I am trying to provide as much data as I can. I don't want to lose my ratings or playlists from my library, any media from the Drobo, or hours of my life trying to manually fix everything should I mess it up from taking a wrong turn somewhere. Thanks in advance!

You missed 'Point 14':
After the folder has been copied, locate your original iTunes Music folder, and drag it to the Trash or Recycle Bin. Note: Don't remove the iTunes 4 Music Library files that may be in the same location as the iTunes Music folder.
If you deleted the 'iTunes Library.itl' file from that folder, then you deleted the iTunes database file that keeps track of all your song references, Playlists and some attributes. See:What are the iTunes Library files?
Can you recover this file from the ExHD? Or maybe the Recycle Bin? Place it back into the 'iTunes' folder under the 'My Music' folder.
If not, you'll have to 'Rebuild' your Library from the ExHD's music files. It's a simple 'File=>Add Folder' from within iTunes, but you will lose your Playlists, Ratings, Play Counts and Last Played attributes.

Changed a Library Item and now my CSS no longer works!

I am so frustrated I am almost in tears. I created a menu in a roughly 7 page website and used DW Library menu to put it on additional pages. Everything was working fine and then I changed a path to one of my links and hit the button to update the rest of the pages and that's when it happend. My CSS was gone, no longer applying to any of my menus. I created an additional CSS sheet just to style my menu and it worked fine up until I changed a frickin link to one my menu icons. Now my CSS sheets won't apply at all. I have no idea what has happened and why me changing the path of a link would void out my styles. Has anyone else had this happen? Suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I don't want to rub salt into your wounds here, but why are you using Library Items for menus? That's what DW Templates are for.
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/dreamweaver_template.asp#1
Or better still, Server-Side Includes.
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/server_side_includes.asp
Shortcomings of Library Items: they cannot be inserted into the <head> tags of documents. Nor can they contain code that belongs in the <head> tags. Library items can only be inserted into the <body> tags.
My advice is to run your code through the online validation tools below and fix reported errors.
HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
If you can't solve the problem yourself, upload page(s) and supporting files to a public web space you control and post the URL here.
Nancy O.

Moving iPhoto to external drive; have formatted external disk to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), moved the iPhoto library to external drive; when trying to change the library, the iPhoto file on new external is greyed out can't be selected.What went wrong?

Must have done something wrong..
1. formatted external disk to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) - required a partition, but that went fine. Entire new external disk was included in the partition formatted to Mac OS Extneded (journaled).
2. moved iPhoto library to new external disk
3. Holding Option key down, opened iPhoto
4. Choose library feature appeared, however when new library function option appeared and "choose library" selected, the iPhoto folder appearing in the new external drive was greyed out and not able to be selected. Therefore the default library remains the original iphoto library on the Mac.
I've moved the original iphoto library to the trash and then tried to start iPhoto. A message comes up that the iPhoto is in the trash and needs to be pulled out before iPhoto can start (clearly the new iphoto library on the external drive is not being seen.
Can anyone suggest where I went awry? Thanks!

Try trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder.
(On 10.7 or later: Hold the option (or alt) key while clicking on the Go menu in Finder to access the User Library)
(Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
What's the plist file?
For new users: Every application on your Mac has an accompanying plist file. It records certain User choices. For instance, in your favourite Word Processor it remembers your choice of Default Font, on your Web Browser is remembers things like your choice of Home Page. It even recalls what windows you had open last if your app allows you to pick up from where you left off last. The iPhoto plist file remembers things like the location of the Library, your choice of background colour, whether you are running a Referenced or Managed Library, what preferences you have for autosplitting events and so on. Trashing the plist file forces the app to generate a new one on the next launch, and this restores things to the Factory Defaults. Hence, if you've changed any of these things you'll need to reset them. If you haven't, then no bother. Trashing the plist file is Mac troubleshooting 101.
Then try select it again.

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