Separate Library for 2 Different Computers

I have 2 different computers that I need to have 2 separate libraries. The problem is my wife and I share the 'My Documents' folder. I have an iPod 60GB, 5G and I'm trying to setup her iPod shuffle. I'd like her to have a separate database/library, but since we both share 'My Documents', I'm having difficulty getting iTunes to look elsewhere for her login. Is there a file outside of the normal preferences that I can change or hardcode for her situation? I've tried pointing her 'My Documents' settings to a directory on her machine, but that's no good because she can't get to her other files then.

Hi - I hope this thread can help me out. Here's the situ... I have a main computer/itunes library at home. Meanwhile I have a work laptop where I've purchased some itunes music which I mainly listen to at work. Now, I want to transfer the music I've purchased from my laptop to my computer at home (and then synch with my ipods). my laptop is not exactly easy to copy files, but I can do it via flash drive onto the home computer (can't figure out how to network the laptop onto home computer). In any event, when I drag the song into the home itunes library, it will show up in the library, but only play when the flash drive is in. As soon as I take the flash drive out, itunes says it can't find the file. Um, help??

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My husband has already set up itunes on our computer for himself with a full library of his songs. We listen to completely different music and when I start downloading tunes, I don't want them to be mixed in with his music. I tried searching this, but nothing was very clear to me. I'm thinking it must be possible to have a separate library for me, but can anyone tell me how? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

Hello, Welcome to discussions.
The easiest method would be to create a new Windows user, So you both have your own Windows user account you can log into. This acts like a second computer in a way. You have your own desktop, your own programs customized to your needs. This includes iTunes.
When setting up iTunes in the new user. Tell it not to search for WMV or MP3 files. This will ensure you have a blank iTunes Library. And then from there you can start building it.
You can do a search on www.google.com or www.yahoo.com or any other search engine you use for key word " creating new windows user on Vista " without the quotation marks. And it will give you a list of quite a few sites with step by step instructions and pictures on creating a new user.

HT1473 I have two separate iTunes libraries on different computers and I would like to compact into one. But I cannot without completely erasing one of the libraries. How can I do this without deleting anything?

I have two separate iTunes libraries on different computers and I would like to compact into one. But I cannot without completely erasing one of the libraries. How can I do this without deleting anything?

Copy the content from one computer to another and import the media into iTunes.
Any playlists, playcounts, etc on the computer the content is being moved from will be lost.

I am making multiple DVD's of roughly 50 hours of footage on DVD Studio pro with 4 separate menus for 4 different 'parts' or series if you will. 50 hours - 20 episodes - 4 parts of 5 episodes each. What are my options in terms of burning these parts on to

I am making multiple DVD's of roughly 50 hours of footage on DVD Studio pro with 4 separate menus for 4 different 'parts' or series if you will. 50 hours - 20 episodes - 4 parts of 5 episodes each. What are my options in terms of burning these parts on to separate DVD's, what is the process, what size DVD RW should I buy, what bitrate should I use, and what quality I should expect for the burn. Any advice or insight is welcome.

>>What are my options in terms of burning these parts on to separate DVD's<<
20 episodes totaling 50 hours equals about 2.5 hours per episode assuming all episodes have the same duration. Fitting 2.5 hours onto one single layer DVD would require a low bit rate which means quality wouldn't be anywhere near best, but that's a judgement call you'll have to make based on several factors. For example; if there is not much motion in the video (talking heads, etc), you can get by with a lower bit rate and may not notice any quality difference.
>>what is the process>>
The process is essentially the same as it is when authoring a regular DVD with 2 hours or less of content. However, with as many discs as you'd need to complete this "set," you'll need to create a separate DVD Studio Project for each disc. Basically, you'd use one of Compressor's DVD Presets (or customize a preset) to create an MPEG--2 video file (.m2v) and a Dolby Digital audio file (.AC3). Import both of those assets into your DVD Studio Pro project for authoring and burning.
If you want to keep one episode per disc, DVD Studio Pro does have a 150 minute preset or you could use dual-layer discs with a higher bit rate for better quality. Again; your call.
>>what size DVD RW should I buy<<
Size? 12cm. Capacity? Single layer, single sided DVD discs (DVD-5) have a rated capacity of 4.7Gb (4.37Gb actual), including menus. If you use single layer discs and want to keep the quality reasonably good, you'd need at least 50 discs to complete this "set" with each disc holding roughly 2 hours of footage if you keep the menu on each disc simple. Or, you could use dual-layer discs (DVD-9) which have a capacity of about 7.95Gb - almost doubling the recordable capacity. There are also dual-sided, dual-layer discs available (DVD-18) but they are relatively expensive and have to be manually turned over to continue playback ... but they do have roughly 15.9Gb capacity.
>>what bitrate should I use, and what quality I should expect for the burn<<
Exactly; the quality is dependent on the bit rate chosen, as well as the quality of the compression. Using compression markers where needed can greatly increase the quality of playback but will most likely increase the file size of the compressed video. For the best quality, keeping the bit rate as high as possible allowed under the DVD specification will yield the best quality but some DVD players may choke if the bit rate is too high. For best quality I typically aim for a bit rate around 7.6 to 8.0Mbps but that will only allow about one hour of footage.
Naturally, if you decrease the bit rate, you can fit more footage onto the disc but quality will be sacraficed.   Here's a chart approximating DVD bit rates and durations for single layer discs (does not include space for menus):
3.5Mbps - 120 minutes
5.0Mbps -   95 minutes
6.0Mbps -   82 minutes
7.6Mbps -   65 minutes
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-DH

How do i create a separate media library for a different user with the same software and i pod?

i currently have i tunes with my preferred music. my family member has a completely different taste of music. i set up an account name for that family member however we are sharing the software. how do i create a separate library. my library automatically appears under her account?

this support article should help:
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Updating library on 2 different computers

hello everyone,
I have 2 different computers that I use for music almost everyday, one at work and one at home so i have all my music on my portable drive. I spend many hours organizing my 90 gb of music at home this weekend and I'm updating my library at work. what i usually do when i have new music is sort my music library in finder by "modified date" and just drag the songs that are new into the library and it automatically adds them to the library. since this is a pretty big change to the library, i deleted the library files on the work computer so i can start with a fresh empty library. I just started import files to the library and i realize in the finder that some of the files/folder were modified (when i sort them in the finder some of the files show "modified today").
Since I want my library at home to be the primary library (where i update my ipod as well) I was just wondering if there is going to be an issue when I use the same music files at home since they were modified by another library. what exactly did itunes change in the files?
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It could cause problems for the reason you state -- the files will be modified by different libraries.
*what exactly did itunes change in the files?*
Probably the metadata such as playcount, rating, etc. So, even by playing it, you have modified the file.
I have not had much luck using different libraries in iTunes other than with this nifty application: http://homepage.mac.com/sroy/libra/ -- I use it to keep track of 6 different libraries across 2 hard drives. The metadata is different for each track in each library, though -- so files are not shared between libraries (at least not the way I use it). But I do regularly move files from one library to another, using smart folders in Finder much the way you do (but I use "Created" instead of "modified"). Hope that makes sense.
As for album artwork, I have never found this to be a problem. As soon as a music file is imported into a new library, the album artwork seems to automatically come with it (presuming it already existed).

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why not create a *smart playlist* that excludes genres such as "holidays" and "christmas" ?
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https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles

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The iCloud service would only work if you had a wifi connection when you are traveling. You could also use a flash drive to store your music. Same concept. I can see how a big hard drive would get a bit annoying, but since your iTunes library is relatively small. You could just get a small 4GB flash drive. That would work fine too. That is your only option unless you want to transfer that data whenever you travel, which wouldnt be too big of a hassle really, right? iCloud requires a Network connection to work.

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