Keeping iTunes 10.7 on new iMac

I am planning to purchase a new iMac in the near future and will be copying everything over from my current iMac. One thing that potentially concerns me is that I will need to copy my large iTunes library over to the new iMac, which I assume will come with iTunes 11 factory installed as software. I have not updated my current iMac to iTunes 11 because I am not happy with the loss of some of the features I use the most (artwork in album/songs list view, gapless playback, etc.) and refuse to "upgrade" to the new iTunes until these features are restored. What I'm wondering is if there might be a potential problem with deleting iTunes 11 from the new iMac and replacing it with the iTunes 10.7 copied over from my current iMac. I can't imagine that this will be any problem whatsoever, but thought I would check to see if others had any thoughts on the subject. Thanks in advance.

Any idea when Apple may release it?

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Firstly, time to get rid of the 2 x 512MB FBDIMMs in there, they add more heat and use more watts then they add to the system. If you need more, and 4 or 8 DIMMs is ideal, Amazon has 2x2GB sets $22 - about 1/50th what I paid for 1GB new.
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Pick up Carbon Copy Cloner http://www.bombich.com to clone the system to the SSD
A sled adapter for the SSD from Icy Dock $14 Amazon.com
7-8 years overdue for new system drive! amazed it lasted this long. An SSD plus some WD Black 2TB drives or larger should do the trick.
you can also put the SSD in the lower optical drive bay and use one of the two ODD "spare" SATA ports for the SSD - an SSD is the best way to improve the performance of our old Mac Pro 2006-7 models.
When you downloaded the Lion installer that was when to create a flash type installer with Lion DiskMaker.
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I understand that if I simply point iTunes to an external drive with this iTunes folder, on my new iMac I will no lnger have the playlists I have organized over the past 5 years. Most of the music is stored by sub-genre and year, or by very personalized criteria.

Thank you for speedy reply. I looked at the external drive iTunes folder and there is something called iTunes library and iTunes music library, but they do not seem to be used (thought the music library is a 35mb file)
On the old iMac, there are files with the same name, though these files show they ere last modified today. It seems to hole most of the other media, like my mobile apps, iBooks content, podcasts and other material put on my iPad.
All my music and videos seem to be on the remote, but it is the music I am most concerned about, given the work I have put into organizing it in iTunes.
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If the Migration Assistant won't do it, move them over as you would any other folder; they're located in the Pictures and Music folders of your home folder by default. The iPhoto library needs to be transferred via a drive, partition, or disk image formatted as Mac OS Extended or through an AFP network share.
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I then purchased a new iMac with a 3TB Fusion drive. I plan to hang on to the MacPro to use on my home network as a file server, running "headless" perhaps.I plan to continue to use it for recording TV shows/movies in EyeTV and converting the output to iTunes videos.
Now I don't know what I should do about an iTunes library on my new iMac. When I got my iMac I migrated my User over to it. However, when I open iTunes, it is asking for me to either create a new iTunes library or open an existing one.
In my mind I have these options:
1. Create a new library. Setup up iTunes Sharing. This could work for me to access my large library of music and videos. However if I start backing up my iPhone i will then have backups on both computers. I suppose I could dump or ignore the MacPro iPhone/iPad backups and just create new backups on the iMac iTunes? What about new content I want to add? EyeTV will still be adding new content to the MacPro library. My iMac has no optical drive so if I want to rip a CD/DVD I would still need to use the MacPro for this. So from that perspective, this option may work out the best. What am I missing?
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Yes. Just copy all your music to a folder on your external. Then delete the music on your computers hard drive.
It is not quite that simple. If you do that you will end up with many broken links and will have to re-create your library from scratch . iTunes does not like it when you move or rename files or folders and doing so between drives is guaranteed to result in exclamation marks indicating you have broken the links to all your media files.
If you are content with moving the whole library to an external drive (usually the best thing for most people), try:
iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
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I have just set up itunes match on my new imac. It is saying I can access all my 9000 songs but only the playlist tab is live - I can't access albums or songs. Am I missing something?
Thanks

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I do not understand your problem. iTunes Match does not change the way iTunes looks. When match process is complete, the match screen tells you how much music you have in the cloud.
Across the top of screen you have options to select songs, albums, artist, composers etc.
Suggest that from main menu, select view>show sidebar.
Jim

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Cool! Thank you so much for the quick response.
So, just to be clear, what I will need to do is...
1. open iTunes.
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3. Close iTunes.
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Whats the easiest way to move my iTunes library to my new iMac?

I have it backed up on an external firewire drive.
The 2 computers are linked via a wireless network.
Thanks
Len

Lend273 wrote:
I have it backed up on an external firewire drive.
The 2 computers are linked via a wireless network.
i would not do that wirelessly. first it is less reliable and, second, depending on the size of your lib, it may take ages. instead, connect both macs via ethernet cable or firewire (starting up the "source" Mac in target disk mode).
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