ITunes Library possibly trapped/corrupted on Time Capsule

I am taking my MacBook Pro, my Time Capsule wireless router/hard drive/backup unit and my other MyBook hard drive to the Apple store tomorrow. Because the MacBook Pro doesn't have enough memory to hold my massive iTunes Library and iPhoto library, at the recommendation of one of the Apple store geniuses (tech support people) I purchased a 1 TB Time Capsule that also holds my iTunes Library and my photos are all on a MyBook hard drive. The Time Capsule disconnects regularly, but Saturday night it disconnected and wouldn't reconnect. So I have no internet, no email access, and I cannot access my iTunes Library. I am afraid the library has been damaged, although it still exists on my 160GB iPod Classic. If the Time Capsule is corrupted then there is NO WAY to get data off the unit according to the discussion forums I have seen on the Apple website and elsewhere, although I haven’t really read anything official from Apple people. They also don’t really make it easy or possible to move things from the iPod device BACK to a new, uncorrupted iTunes library on the computer or a hard drive. I am going to ask Apple to fix the Time Capsule and move the iTunes Library to the MyBook HD (or I'll purchase a larger HD if there isn't room). I don’t know if they will or if they can. I certainly know that they won’t attempt anything like that for free, or while I wait in the store. I am very frustrated and anxious about my iTunes library – I have almost 100 GB of music, videos, and podcasts. Any thoughts? Is there another forum that would be a better place to ask for any advice?

First never use the TC as the main source of your files, always have a backup on a usb or firewire external or if using a Mac Pro on a secondary hard drive. You could pull that TC hard drive and connect it to an external to get your files. Not a difficult thing to do.
If the TC disconnects often then you must have an interference problem which needs counter measured. Try an ethernet connector and by pass the wireless for a moment.

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You will run into pain. I just tried every found solution on Internet. Whatever you will do, it ends up in a hack. Fact is: iTunes administer your library only local. You CAN share your iTunes library on one Mac by menu settings in a network, BUT the Mac sharing its iTunes library MUST run all the time you want to listen to music from shared iTunes library even if the shared library (music files) is on the Time Capsule. It even wont work turn on "Wake up on LAN activity". The shared library will only be available as long as the Mac sharing its iTunes library is up and iTunes opened. That way it makes no big sense to have the music files in library physically on your Time Capsule. Another problem might come up when you stop listening shared iTunes library: As soon as the sharing Mac goes into StandBy mode (time depending) you can't access its library again. Standby must be stopped.
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I hope Apple will find a way in iTunes not to handle the music libraries so restrictive, so it can be accessed f.e. on Time Capsule while the Mac sharing its library must not run all the time.
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all my devices having home sharing enabled under the same account.
i can access my music library from any of my devices easily and problem free.
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