How to merge 2 iTunes libraries with song rating intact?

My wife and I have separate iTunes libraries, and we need to merge them together on a PC. We rate songs on our own, and want to retain the ratings and album image while merging it. Does anyone know of a webpage that has a step by step guide to do this? Thanks

Turn on enable home sharing in both iTunes accounts, and then you should be able to get both libraries onto one phone. This is assuming that both libraries are on the same computer. The link describes how it works on a Mac. This link seems to explain how to do it on Mac or PC.

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I have two iMacs ( Mavericks), sharing the same customer account. Each iMac has it's
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Is that doable? Also, if that can be done, can iCloud keep iTunes synced on both Macs going
forward as I add new music?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Lenny.

Until I tunes match comes out it does not matter. I cloud is for e mail, contacts, and calendars. Your I cloud ID MUST be an @me.com ID.

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how can I merge all of my iTunes libraries with my wife and kids so we can all share the music?
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
You can't merge accounts.
You can however share or import content from another library/account using homesharing.

How do I merge itunes libraries?

How do I merge itunes libraries from two separate accounts?

Why are you posting a second thread with the same question. This one isn't any clearer than your first post.
What do you mean "merge itunes libraries from two separate accounts"? You have an iPod listed. Are you talking about getting music from two separate iTunes libraries on two separate computers? Are you talking about getting iTunes purchased music on a single iPod from two separate Apple/iTunes IDs?
What is it that you are wanting to do? If you do not take the time to explain what it is you are wanting to accomplish, then you are not going to get the information you need to do it. We are not mind readers.
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Using rsync to merge itunes libraries

I'm not sure where to post this, so I'll try here. I'm trying to create a script to backup my laptop's (smaller and ever changing) itunes library to a server that has all my music on it. i've looked everywhere for this answer online and can't find anything.
the problem is, I can easily rsync the laptop's library to the server, without deleting, so that I have essentially merged whatever new purchases I've made on my laptop into the archival library on the server. . . creating an ever growing music backup on the server. However, how does the itunes library on the server know to add these new tunes to its itunes library file? I know I could go in and drag the server's itunes music folder into the server's itunes app, and the merged songs would then be added to the library xml file, but i was wondering if there was a way to automate that process as well... (in rsync or otherwise)...
anyone have any ideas?

This may help
http://www.digital501.com/20061019156/merge-itunes-libraries-rsync/

How to make iTunes read the song's name/singer from the file's name itself?

Hi everyone,
So I have this file with songs from everywhere. I spent quite some time now to make sure that the structure of each file's name is as such : "Singer - Song name", hoping that everything would be read by iTunes accordingly. However, either iTunes read it well, or it didn't read it at all ("Singer - Song name" appearing in Title alone), or iTunes read the "media" of the file (ie. what the guy I downloaded it from wrote for it in the Preferences, which usually is in capital letters or with a bunch of weird underscores). As I'm OCD and need everything to be neat, I'm highly tensed right now. I really want everything to be neat and clear!
So, how do I make sure that iTunes reads the files' names such that it knows the structure is "Singer - Song name"? Thanks.

iTunes doesn't use file names to determine how music appears in your library, Rather, it uses metadata that is split between:
data elements that are embedded within the media files
data elements that are included in the entries in the iTunes database
No amount of reorganization, renaming or other manipulation at the file level will make any difference to how songs will appear in iTunes. Using your example:
the value of the track number element is 1
the value of the artist element is "Elvis Presley"
the value of the song name element is "Blue Suede Shoes"
Depending on how you configure iTunes then the file name is either:
completely independent of iTunes (i.,e., the file containing this song could be xyz.mp3)
dependent on the metadata managed by iTunes, (i.e., when you have these two options set:
then iTunes will set the file name to be 1-01 Blue Suede Shoes.mp3 where:
the file is in a folder called "Elvis Presley" (the name of the album)
that folder is in one called "Elvis Presley" (the name of the artist) which is in iTunes Media\Music
Going back to your question "How to make iTunes read the song's name/singer from the file's name" the answer is simple - you can't, as this is not how iTunes works. There are some third-party utilities that you can use to set some metadata element values based on parsing of file names which might be a useful first step. However, to use iTunes effectively you should really forget about / ignore file names - manage your media using appropriate metadata and allow iTunes to look after file names behind the scenes.

How to handle iTunes Match with multiple libraries (one account, 5 family members)?

How would this work, in the situation below ...
Everyone has their own iCloud account (for their own syncing purposes).
But we (family) ALL share the same iTunes account (for purchasing).
How will this work, since we all have our own iTunes libraries?

One person sets up Match on their computer using the iTunes account. Uploads everything to match.
I would recommend waiting until that person is done, and do computers one at a time. No particular reason, just seems sensible.
Next person sets up match using same iTunes account details. Uploads their stuff. They will then see everything the previous user put into the system, unless you select "Hide music not on this computer" in the view menu. Previous user will now see their stuff too.
Rinse and repeat.
This is how it worked with my multiple machines anyway... As long as every computer uses the same iTunes account for the store, you all get access to the same Match account.

How can I merge iTune libraries?

I have a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro tower. Each has iTunes 10. Each computer has its own iTunes music library. There is about 70 % overlap of music. How can I merge the libraries so they are the same on each computer? Many thanks for any help.
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How can I merge the libraries
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PowerTunes
TuneRanger
SuperSync
JGG

Merging iTunes libraries/accounts

My kids used to have a a Windows PC but it died. I bought a new iMac for myself and I am passing down my G4 iMac to the kids. On the windows PC, they each had their own log in, so they each had to have a separate iTunes library. Additionally, they each have their own iTunes account. I have managed to get all of the info from the PC transferred to the iMac. It is all in a separate folder waiting for me to intergrate it into the different programs on the iMac.
Here are my questions.
a) I would like to merge all of the iTunes libraries into one. Is it possible for use to have four iTunes Store accounts that feed into one iTunes library?
b)If we can merge the accounts into one library, would we be able to listen to and to share all of the music in the libray or would we need to sign in and out of the indiviual accounts?
c) I shudder think of how much money we have wasted by buying the same version of the same songs at the iTunes Store. If we merge all of the libraries, what happens to the dozens of duplicate songs that were purchased by more than one of the accounts?
d) If we do not merge the libraries, how difficult is it to switch between libraries in iTunes?
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Thanks!
My Mac Pro just arrived yesterday. Fortunately, I had kept my Library on an exernal FW drive; everything transferred very quickly to the new Mac while I snoozed last night. This morning, I decided to listen to some tunes but couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get my Library recognized by iTunes. I thought I'd have to spend the entire morning searching the forum for the answer, which I should already know because I had to do it last year when I moved everything to the external drive.
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Merging iTunes libraries onto a new computer?

Hi,
I just purchased a new macbook and I want to sell my older macs. I have two, each with its own iTunes libraries (and associated files). These libraries are highly redundant, but not identical.
Is there an easy way to merge them and move them onto the new computer without being plagued by duplicates?
Thanks in advance

Unfortunately, no, it is hard to somehow automerge a couple libraries and avoid duplicates. iTunes is very stupid in that it is no able to determine duplicate files and so treats all files the same and adds them all. Which is good because you don't want iTunes determining three tracks are the same song because they have the same artist and song title and throwing two in the trash when in fact one was a studio version, another a live version and the other an alternate outtake version. You would make a lot of people angry doing that.
So, iTunes leaves determining if tracks are duplicates up to the user. You can use the command to show duplicates, but that is only to help you determine which songs MIGHT be duplicates and leaves it up to you to make that determination.
Therefore, when adding tracks, like from other libraries, iTunes does not make any attempt to determine, warn, let alone restrict duplicate tracks.
About the only thing I can think of to help is to go into the libraries of the computers you are getting rid of and manually deleting stuff you know are duplicates. For example, on your main library you see you have 8 albums by U2. Go delete those albums from the other libraries. Repeat as necessary to at least get them other libraries reduced considerably. Then it will be much easier to try and determine where they are different to grab the different things to put into the main computer's library.
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How to prevent iTunes form deleting songs when iPhone/iPod is NOT connected?

One day, I was reading a pdf file on my Mac Computer and decided to open iTunes. All my songs was deleted!!!! I didn't even connect my iPhone to the computer!!!! I the forced quit iTunes and reopened it again. Some of my music came back. I then shut down my computer and opened iTunes the nesxt day. All of my songs (I think) came back, except my Movie file is completely empty!!!!!!! All my movies stored in iTunes was deleted!!!!!!!
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I just got an iMac and i already had a macbook with all my music on it. I used time machine and backed up my macbook. How do i transfer my itunes library (playcounts and all) to my new imac?
Also what is the best way to keep my imac and my macbook itunes libraries in sync. To the point where it doesnt matter which on i am on i can access the same stuff, current playcounts and all?

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