Time Capsule/Itunes Library

I may have a really stupid question but I bought the Time Capsule specifically to back up my itunes library. I have 10,000+ songs I am afraid to lose. Does TimeCapsule do this back up as part of its routine backups daily?

Unless you excluded it in the Time Machine pane of System Preferences, yes.
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    Does anybody know how can I sync my iTunes library with my Time Capsule?
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    Thanks!

    Santi1 wrote:
    I would like to backup my iTunes library in one of my Time Capsules because the computer that has all the music has a small HD (only 80GB).
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    On the other hand, if the computer with the music doesn't have enough space, then you should either replace that drive with a larger one or move the music (not "back it up") to another volume.
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  • So, I have just about had it. For nine days now,  I have valiantly tried to move my library to an external drive. At first, I attempted to move it to my 2TB Time capsule, iTunes didn't like its new home though and moved home without telling me.

    So, I have just about had it. For nine days now,  I have valiantly tried to move my library to an external drive. At first, I attempted to move it to my 2TB Time capsule. iTunes didn't like its new home though and moved home without telling me. So then there were two libraries. I meshed them back together reluctantly and iTunes in a silent revolt, absolutely refused to use its own 'Keep Library Organized' criteria and may as well have thrown my music against the wall. Seriously, my 5 year old nephew has his computer files better managed. Then I bought a 3TB Time Capsule and you may ask yourself why??? Well, iTunes doubled in size- although when I ran apps that are designed to find duplicate iTunes files, it deleted the music I actually bought from iTunes. So then I watched as iTunes got it back. How you ask; I run a MacBook Air, iMac and Mac mini in my house - as soon as one powered up it hit the net like a sailor on leave and re-downloaded it all without abandon. I tried to keep the libraries separate, no success there. I tried to keep them unified; iTunes response was to ask me if I wanted to join iTunes Match every time I logged on to my computer and on any computer - my iTunes match song number has been as high as 24,367 and as low as 11,112. And I can't simply refuse iTunes. No one refuses iTunes. Refusal to allow iTunes Match to run through all 24000 songs again was to revoke my rights to the songs that were once part of my library. If I took a long time to decide or was visibly impatient while iTunes did its little 3 hour scan it would arbitrarily decide that music I bought from iTunes was ineligible for iTunes Match. How could that possibly be??? I am missing music, or at least iTunes tells me so by showing me that lovely exclamation point. I have tried backing up my computer to do a full system restore and start all over. Time Capsule claims I have 979 GB of data and takes its sweet time to even back up one gig (about 18 minutes) even though I can transfer files to my Time Capsule at about 1 GB every 40 seconds. I guess though performing back-ups are somewhat like government jobs; it will get done, when it gets done. The back up requirement of 979 GB is surprising though, my Mac claims that I currently occupy just about 25% of my 2TB drive. The discrepancy, who knows, but I think the solution lies somewhere in iTunes. But maybe iPhoto. But that is for another time.

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    The backup up is slowww but I expected that from reading different posts but honestly I didn't think it would take 7 hours (801.11n) on a brand new empty laptop. I am hoping that now that it has backed up once it will speed up. My problem is with my music. I copied over all of my files (I will not say how long that took except to say that I have been on shorter camping trips) and then went to my new mac and pointed the library to that folder and then added the files. The airport read time was so slow that iTunes locked up after about 5 minutes. I figured it might be the new mac so I tried a windows machine (which was a direct wired connection to the TC) and an old macbook and all had the same issue. If I can't even grab the meta data from the songs how in the world can I read the song file during play back?
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  • Best way to share Time Capsule iTunes folder between multiple PC's & users?

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    Q#1) Does each windows user need to connect as the same Time Capsule user? Or is there a way to share a folder amongst several Time Capsule users? (We have several Time Capsule users set up, but I don't know how to configure it so one can see files created by another.)
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    Hello patrickmcguire. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
    Check out this theAppleBlog entry to see if it addresses all of your questions: Using Time Capsule as a Media Drive

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    You will probably need to do this every time iTunes updates. Make sure you update all users iTunes at the same time. Do not import files from multiple accounts at the same time.

  • Time Capsule, iTunes, iPhone.. syncing.. Help!

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  • Time capsule - itunes - windows

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    Hello Jolly,
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    It being an "air disk" should not affect me too much as i will only be using the Itunes to sync my Ipod and not to play tunes. I see you can tell the TC to open in dock on boot also.
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  • Why won't itunes recognize/play from my library on time capsule

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