How can i make itunes on my laptop my home library without deleting all of my songs?
I have already tried home sharing and clicking on manually manage music and videos but when i click that it tries to delete all of my music and i want to keep my music i just want to use my laptop instead of my other computer.
See this migrate iTunes library post.
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Original script can be forund at http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=thistagthattag
Modified script is below. Start up Applescript Editor, paste it into a new window. Start up iTunes and select the tracks to modify. Click Run in the Applescript Editor. Follow the instructions.
(* Put This In That
v2.0 april 22 2008
- runs as universal binary
- adds "Show" tag
- consolidated code
- saved as script bundle
v1.7 October 3, 2006
- adds "Album Artist" as option
v1.6 October 28, 2004
- works around iTunes 4.7 selection bug
v1.5 ('04/1)-- adds "grouping" tag
Get more free AppleScripts and info on writing your own
at Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Get a copy of the GNU General Public License by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
or visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-- CONSTANTS
property allOptions : {"Song Name", "Artist", "Album", "Album Artist", "Composer", "Genre", "Comments", "Show", "Grouping", "Sort Name"}
property my_title : "Put This In That"
global thisTag, thatTag, theNewTags, theOriginalTags, yn
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if gave up of result is true then return
my choose_this_tag()
my choose_that_tag()
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my do_put()
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end repeat
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else
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end tell
to choose_this_tag()
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if n is false then error number -128
set thisTag to (n as text)
end tell
end choose_this_tag
to choose_that_tag()
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repeat with t in allOptions
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end repeat
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if n is false then error number -128
set thatTag to n as text
end tell
end choose_that_tag
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try
repeat with i from 1 to (length of allOptions)
if thisTag is (item i of allOptions) then
set thisTag_sto to (item i of theOriginalTags)
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
repeat with i from 1 to (length of allOptions)
if thatTag is (item i of allOptions) then
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exit repeat
end if
end repeat
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repeat with i from 1 to (length of allOptions)
if thisTag is (item i of allOptions) then
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end if
end repeat
end if
end try
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