How I Set My NAS Up with iTunes...

Just had an interesting week trying to move my 200GB library from my iMac to a new NAS (Synology DS409+). Thought I'd post how I managed it, with props to some other people on here for their insightful suggestions...
Set up the iTunes folder inside the Music shared folder on the NAS. Then tried to "consolidate library" which failed after a few hours:
"Attempting to copy to the disk "music" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to."
Copy had been going well up to that point, but the error message was unhelpful in trying to pin down what was causing the problem, although the last item transferred was a Protected Audio file from the iTMS...googling around, it seems a few people have had issues transferring iTMS purchases, so I removed all mine (only around 30 or so) to a special folder, for separate handling later. I also found a couple of PDF booklets and a few Aperture projects (??!!) lurking in the recesses of my library, so I pulled them too. Some very bright spark also suspected that the "consolidate library" command seems to choke on more than 40GB of files, so following that principle, I sorted my library by album, and highlighted chunks of tracks totalling around 39GB, before right-clicking and selecting "Consolidate tracks..."
This worked flawlessly, and I moved all my music files to their new home in 4 stages. I still had around 43GB of podcasts to go, so I thought I'd try them in one go, and very quickly, the copy hung, and I got the error message back, so there definitely seems to be some voodoo around this 40GB limit, on Macs at least.
Some glitches popped up initially following this. The iTunes browser was now showing that I had an additional 30GB of files, for more or less the same number of items (I'd been taking frequent screenshots throughout the process, which I recommend as a quick way of keeping tabs on things...the DS409+ takes about 10 minutes to calculate a folder size of 200GB). I sorted the library by size, and the top one was a file of 27.9GB...a 3 minute ska track no less, from the album "100% Dynamite". I highlighted it, and after a few seconds, it changed by itself to a Massive Attack track, from the album "100th Window", with a size of 6.8MB, and the total size in the status bar duly returned to normal. I checked the playlists for both albums, and they each contained tracks from the other, along with a couple of tracks from a third album called "100% Groove". So far, these seem to have been the only issues that I can find, but I'm curious why only albums/playlists containing the number "100" seem to have been affected.
Before reaching this solution, I'd tried rsyncing my iTunes folder from the HDD to the share, and pointing to it in the iTunes preferences. As I've always let iTunes keep the folder organised, I figured it should handle this OK, but it didn't. About 10% of my tracks went "missing" (mainly classical & compilation stuff) even though the actual files were at the same relative path on the share. Looked around for methods to automatically re-link them, but that's still not so easy, and I certainly wasn't going to locate all 1600 tracks individually. In the past, I'm pretty sure I edited the .xml library file with the new path (find /old/ replace with /new/), and that was sufficient, but it doesn't seem to work with iTunes 9, any changes being ignored upon relaunch. Which makes me wonder what's so special about the proprietary library file, and why bother to keep the .xml file hanging around? You can re-import this, but at the cost of losing a lot of metadata.
The iTunes Library files are still in my Home folder on my HDD, and I don't really see any need to enable the iTunes Server on the NAS yet, especially as I access most of my music using the Remote.app and Airport Express. I'd recommend anybody else doing this to make frequent backups of the iTunes library files at intervals during this operation, in case you need to get back to a last known good configuration. If a big consolidation fails, you can't really tell which tracks (or their references) have been successfully relocated, so your library now straddles two locations, and I'm not convinced iTunes can deal with that properly when you re-attempt the consolidation. So after each batch of 39GB, I'd quit iTunes, duplicate the library files, and relaunch for the next batch.

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