ITunes Has Stopped Seeing my Music...
Hello,
I have my iTunes library on a network share (instead of my MacBook), and it's never been a problem until a couple days ago.
Here are the symptoms: any new music/podcasts added - no problem. Every morning I refresh my podcasts, and iTunes finds the Library on the networked share and copies the new podcasts to it. No problem. However all of the rest of my 3600+ songs/podcasts (anything added prior to just a few days ago) have little question-marks in front of them. If I click on them, I get the "iTunes can not locate this song, would you like to locate it?" error. If I click "yes" and navigate to the iTunes library on the network share, then iTunes can find it.
Also, after a reboot of the MacBook, iTunes resets the library location back to the default (MacBook/Users/Joe/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music). Just quitting/restarting the iTunes app does not do this. It's never done this before. I can't figure out what's changed.
After a reboot, I've changed the library location back to the music folder on the network share (several times). I've tried "Consolidate Library" several times. Nothing seems to work.
Can anyone tell me what's going on and how to fix it? Thanks!
Joe
Oh, if only it were that easy. The former location (harddrive) of the iTunes library has been moved to a new location on the network.
Cast:
Workshop PC (Red Hat Linux)
Old Office PC (Red Hat Linux)
New Office PC (Ubuntu Linux)
External Harddrive
Plot:
A newcomer to the home network disrupts the status-quo. Hilarity ensues.
Scene One:
The iTunes library was on a 2nd harddrive in Workshop PC. Library was copied to External Harddrive (this is the step that I should have let iTunes perform).
Scene Two:
New Office PC is installed. It is assigned network name "OfficePC". External Harddrive containing new copy of iTunes library is connected to OfficePC.
Scene Three:
2nd harddrive from Workshop PC (containing original iTunes library) is removed and placed in OfficePC for use as network storage. Workshop PC is retired.
Scene Four:
Old Office PC is moved into workshop to replace retired Workshop PC. Harddrive is wiped and a fresh install of Ubuntu is performed. Old Office PC is reborn as "Workshop".
Epilogue:
So it's not really possible to move the iTunes library back to where it was. How about this: what if I copy the library to the default location on the MacBook? (MacBook/Users/Joe/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music) Then reboot. As I mentioned earlier, iTunes seems to default back to this location after a reboot. So then I point iTunes to a new location on the External Harddrive and Consolidate. Sound reasonable?
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