Time Capsule & iTunes

Hi, I just purchased a 2TB time capsule and a MB Air and I am having some issues. I plan on using the TC as backup and also wanted to park my music there to share with the rest of the family since I can not host the files on my 128gb drive
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?
I have tried rebooting, hard and soft, I have reformatted the drive and put a small amount of songs back (about 25GB) and the same thing happens. So my questions are as follows. Is the TC defective? If not what is the point.. not to be snotty but I can't imagine how a system restore would work, it would take a week. I am thinking about returning it and getting an airport extreme and an external hard drive to attach to it. Would this be faster? I really like the wireless portion I just don't think I can live with these storage speeds.
Thanks for any advice!

If you hold down an "option" key while you pull down the Wi-Fi/AirPort menu bar item, what value do you see for "RSSI"?
By the way, it's not a good idea to use the same disk for Time Machine backups and for other things. By design Time Machine will eventually consume all available space on its output disk, which will cause problems for other uses.

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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.

After admittedly only a quick read the one thing you don't say is how you are trying to make this move. Most people with moving library issues do it the wrong way. Plenty of web sites tell you how to do it the wrong way.
If the iTunes application is started before the drive with the library is fully mounted and awake iTunes will revert back to the internal drive.

Time Capsule - iTunes Library Sync

Does anybody know how can I sync my iTunes library with my Time Capsule?
I made a backup of my iTunes library by copying "iTunes File" to my Time Capsule. Now, every time I make a new purchase from iTunes, I have to add it manually to the Time Capsule "iTunes File". Is there a way that this can be done automatically?
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).
I'm still not sure what you're trying to do. If you want to back up your iTunes library, just let Time Machine do that. That way you won't have to copy anything manually. At the same time, you should delete from the Time Capsule disk any file that you copied there manually. It's not good to use any disk volume where Time Machine stores its backups for other purposes. By design, Time Machine will eventually consume all available space no its output volume, which will cause trouble for the other files.
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.
The best way to retrieve a file from a Time Machine backup is with the Time Machine application. If you haven't deleted it, you'll find it in the Dock. You can also invoke the "Enter Time Machine" option from the Time Machine icon in the menu bar.

Best way to share Time Capsule iTunes folder between multiple PC's & users?

We are happily using a 2T Time Capsule and Genie Timeline to back up computer files. However, our main iTunes computer is a laptop which is quickly running out of disk space. So we hope to share an iTunes directory on the Time Capsule between two pc's with multiple users.
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.)
Q#2) Once the shared directory is established and everyone can see it from both computers, is this the correct procedure:
a) On the main iTunes pc, change the iTunes Media Folder to the shared Time Capsule folder
b) Consolidate the library
c) Import music files from the other pc as necessary. (Can we do this? Some are protected aac files.)
d) Change the iTunes Media Folder on the second pc to the shared Time Capsule folder. (How do you grant permission for the other pc to use the shared iTunes Media Folder?)
Apologies if I all this has been answered already. I was unable to find it in my searches.

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

Time Capsule iTunes AppleTV

If I purchase a Time Capsule, it is to be a repository for movies & music. Not interested in backing up the computers. Currently all music is stored on my Mac Pro. My Wife has a iPhone & iPod, she has to use my Mac Pro to load music on to both of Her devices. She has Her own Mac Book, if I move all music on to the Time Capsule, will she be able to have direct access to all music, create her own playlist, etc., without my Mac Pro running iTunes? Will I be able to have access to all of the music as well? I have read about some NAS devices that have iTunes Server software, will this be on the Time Capsule? What actually is iTunes Server software?
I currently stream music from my Mac Pro to the AppleTV. What is the path of the music using the Time Capsule to stream music to the AppleTV? I know that I have to have iTunes running on my Mac Pro to stream to the AppleTV. I guess I am trying to find out if there will be a lag if I set it up this way. Does the music go to my Mac Pro from the Time Capsule and then on to the AppleTV?
Any insight and explanations would be greatly appreciated.

My solution has been to do this:
1) Get the library on one account perfectly organized with the "iTunes Music location" in the Advance setting pane directed toward a folder on your external drive/TC.
2) Go to that user account's music folder and drag the "iTunes library," "iTunes Music library.xml", and "Album Artwork" files to the networked external drive/TC.
3) Create an alias for each of these items on the external drive (click the file and File>Make Alias or cmd+L).
4) Now go to every user account (including the original) and delete the original of these files.
5) Drag and drop the aliases into the Music>iTunes folders and ...
6) MOST IMPORTANTLY: DELETE the 'alias' at the end of the file name. You must do this because when iTunes opens it will look for a file named "iTunes library". It can follow the alias, but will reject it if it has 'alias' in the file name.
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!

Hello everyone
I need help.. (of course!)
I just moved to Mac and I'm not done with syncing, iTunes library, etc.
What I have:
MBA - Macbook Air 1.6 120GB Hard Drive
TC - Time Capsule 500GB
iPhone 3G 16GB
iPod Shuffle 2GB
iPod Classic 80GB
Portable HD Western Digital 320GB
First of all, when I had my Windows based PC I was just syncing the iPhone, leaving the library on the external and every time I wanted to sync I had to plug in before doing.
What I want:
Use the TC as main backup and sync device and get rid of the External 320GB HD. I need to sync iPhone daily at the office and the TC is at Home, but if I try to sync at the office it won't open the iTunes, sync the library in in the TC at home. My need is to sync everything but music, that takes too much space in my MBA. I just want to be free to open iTunes wherever I am and sync without touching the music and playlists and when I'm home I can sync everything.
Is that possible?
Also, I read that my library and files in TC won't be backed up using Time Machine. Is there a solution for that, to have everything backed up together?
Thanks!
Ricardo Pereira

Your iPhone can only be "synced" with one computer at a time. Regardless of authorization for iTunes content.
You need to transfer ALL content from the old computer to the new. Then, you can choose to sync the iPhone by clicking on it in the sidebar, and across the top going through the Summary, Info, Music, Movies, Photos, Apps etc tabs, and checking the boxes to turn ON syncing to this new computer. It should give you a message each time you do this that says that you will wipe off existing content and then add new content that came from THIS computer instead.
Simply de-authorizing the old computer will not solve your problem- that just tells Apple that you no longer allow the computer to play the content you purchased FROM iTunes. It does not affect syncing other than the transferrence of iTunes store purchases from the device they were bought on to the other device.

Time capsule - itunes - windows

got the airport extreme to utilize the 500Gb of space for my music and video. i have an HP notebook running Vista 64. i have my itunes downloads going directly to the airport. the problem i am running into is whenever i am downloading my connection will drop and then subsequently my itunes will refresh to my c: drive.
1. how can i prevent the drops? it happens quite frequently especially when downloading but am able to reconnect no problem.
2. any solution on my refreshing of itunes.

Hello Jolly,
Thank you for the quick reply.
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.
I was more worried about compatibility with Windows as i would like both laptops to be able to access the library for syncing.
Do you know of any issues syncing windows via homeshare/Time Capsule?

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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ITunes sometimes won't see media on my time capsule, and I have to remind it where it is !!

Hello,
I use a MacBook Pro to run iTunes, and my media sits in two locations.
1 Music, books, Apps etc are locally on the MacBook
2 Movies and TV Shows are on my Time capsule.
iTunes never has a problem with finding local hard drive content, however it only seems to find 50% of the time capsule media.
I get the apostrophe that suggests iTunes cannot find it, however if I select "get info" it knows where it is. (and will work fine from there)
It has become very frustrating, as it is never the same files it cant find, always different !!
When speaking to Apple (in-store) he was convinced it was a network speed issue related to the time capsule, however after speaking to Apple Care, they say it is not a recognised configuration (to store files away from the local Mac) and hence wont help me !!
Im convinced I cannot be the only one with this issue as we download more and more content our local hard drives are just not big enough to cope.
In summary, I just want to open iTunes and all my content be visible !!
Thanks

Your Time Capsule is on and running well before starting iTunes?
Although I think the AC person was going a bit by the book in the configuration comment, the person does have a point and it is not recommended you keep content other than backup files on a Time Capsule. If for no other reason you do not have a backup for your content you are keeping there.
Since you are saying this is happening with different files each time, but iTunes is able to find them when you get info on the file, I think it could well be a network issue and because you are using your Time Capsule for multiple purposes which includes large files. When you are starting iTunes it is trying to do something with the files and there isn't enough capacity for iTunes to do it and it is reporting files as missing. When you do it more leisurely one-by-ne by getting info it is having time to find them and is reporting them as okay. Which files this happens with may just be am atter of slight differences in what is happening each time you start iTunes and your network drive.

Problems with iTunes syncing iPhotos on Time Capsule after Mavericks update?

Hello all,
I currently have all my Music/Movies/TV Shows/Photos stored on my Time Capsule and have been using iTunes and iPhoto to retreive files from it with no problems until I recently upgraded to Mavericks.
Couple of days ago, I updated to Mavericks, downloaded the latest version of iPhoto and iTunes. Yet once I've done so I could no longer sync photos to my iPhone, iPad or even see my photos on my Apple TV. I could however see the Music other Media. It took iTunes abnormally longer time to retrieve the data from the network and once it did and tried to sync them with the phone it just hung and crashed.
I tried doing the following:
Deleting the iPod, Apple TV cache from the iPhoto library.
Fixed iPhoto Permissions and rebuilt the whole of the iPhoto library.
Deleted my iTunes library and rebuilt it from scratch.
All that did not work. The only thing that did however, was taking the photos from the Time Capsule and back to my computer. That seemed to fix things and I was able to make everything work again.
What I am asking is: Is anyone else having the same problem? Is this an OS bug that will be addressed? or is there anyway I could fix this on my own? I only own a Macbook Air and the 15GB of photos I have already take a huge chunk out of the 59GB I have available on my laptop. Thanks.

I have a new Time Capsule (the tall version), but no Mavericks yet (I have OSX 10.8.5) and latest iTunes and Time Capsule sw. I have pictures and iTunes library on the Time Capsule.
iTunes messes a lot with synching pictures and music.
I have tried to delete the picture cache on the Capsule, but that only helped once. Next time it looked over the pictures for a long time, but synched none. With music I get an error message that it's wrong format (it isn't, the file is fine, I can see it) - and since next time that song will/might come in, but some next song won't. Then it could gray out some music on iPad (running iOS 6.1.3), some times it actually plays grayed out music, some times it doesn't.
But on my Mac Mini (which runs iTunes, all year long), all is fine, so the music exists fine! Synching looks very broken to me! This happened when my wide Time Capule's disk broke and I had to recover the iTunes library from a backup.
I'd rather not move all of this onto the MacBook, as I want anyone to be able to synch and play music wouthot having to relate to some laptop.
Øyvind Teig, Trondheim, Norway
www.teigfam.net/oyvind/home

Use time capsule for iTunes library

I would like to use my new time capsule as the location for my iTunes library. How do I go about doing that? Currently my iTunes library is on my MacBook Pro.

The Time Capsule was designed for your backups, not for everyday or "original" copies of files or folders. It is not a media server.
The smart move would be to get another hard drive and connect it to your Mac. Move the iTunes library to that hard drive.
Then, Time Machine will back up both your Mac and the hard drive to the Time Capsule.
iTunes will run just as fast as if it were on your Mac.....and more importantly....you will have backups for both your Mac and the important data on the hard drive on the Time Capsule.
Note that having the "key" will not help a bit if you are trying to connect a wireless device that does not want to see apostrophes, dollar signs, asterisks, and any other special character.
Change the name of your wireless network to something that uses only normal letters and numbers, with no spaces. Do not exceed 20 characters.
Same rule for password.

Error 13005 when starting itunes... related to Time capsule FirmwareUpdate

Hi, I store my iTunes library on my Time capsule. Since the firmware update, I have been getting error 13005 every time I try to run iTunes. This thread pointed me over here to see if anyone knew of a reason why:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9120768&#9120768
When I create a new iTunes library on ANY other hard drive but Time Capsule, iTunes starts right up, but when I do the same on Time Capsule I get the dreaded error, even when I create a new library in a new folder on it.
Any ideas?

Hi, I store my iTunes library on my Time capsule. Since the firmware update, I have been getting error 13005 every time I try to run iTunes. This thread pointed me over here to see if anyone knew of a reason why:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9120768&#9120768
When I create a new iTunes library on ANY other hard drive but Time Capsule, iTunes starts right up, but when I do the same on Time Capsule I get the dreaded error, even when I create a new library in a new folder on it.
Any ideas?

Why won't itunes recognize/play from my library on time capsule

I have a macbook air running mountain lion 10.8.2
1 TB Time Capsule
Itunes 11.0.1
Iphoto 10.8.2
Its been my goal for a long time to get all of my music and all of my photos onto the time capsule and be able to pull them up via itunes and iphoto directly from the hard drive.
) the new itunes version updated and erased all of my playlists and most of my music/movies/apps etc. such a nightmare
) so since everything was defunct anyway, I move my itunes file over to the time capsule. Changed the reference folder in iTunes preferences
Keep iTunes Media folder organized is checked
Copy files to itunes media folder when adding to library is checked
Then I went to File>Library>organize library
Then restarted itunes
) Itunes doesn’t pull up all of my movies and media still
) If I click on a song from the itunes folder on the time capsule – it plays and adds to the itunes screen. if I drag the whole folder onto the itunes screen, it seems to be busy copying etc. but in the end nothing changes.
) If I click on an .m4v file, it doesn’t open with itunes and doesn’t give that as an option. If you search for itunes app to open it, you have to search through folders to find it. Even after you get it to open in itunes, I don’t think the movie is stay

You can use the Time Capsule for storage but not as a media Server
The Time Capsule / Airport with external drive can act as media STORAGE, but neither will run as a media SERVER. You will need at least one Mac running iTunes, with sharing turned on, and/or a media extender program like Null River's Media Link which will create a standard uPnP front-end that a PS3, Xbox or similar can poll.
A Mac Mini is often used as a media server... but might not be as cost-effective as other solutions...

Time Capsule "Server Connection Interrupted"

For the last 2 months I get this Pop Up every Couple of Hours on my iMac. I have a Time Capsule & my iTunes Library is on that Network Hard Drive.
"Server Connections Interrupted" and shows the Hard Drive in my Time Capsule (iTunes).
I am running latest Version of Lion.
I am connected from iMac Ethernet to Time Capsule.
I have the Time Capsule Drive Set to Login when my Mac Starts Up.
But here's the funny part. My iTunes Music will be Playing perfectly when this Pops Up. No skips, Stutters. Nothing. So it does not interfere with anything working.
I would like to Post the Error but I forgot how!

I have just installed a new 4th generation Time Capsule, and have the same [what I thought initially was just a nuisance] 'Server Connections Interrupted' popup window appearing very frequently.
Here is the Popup window:
Worse; when I began the process of backing up 105GB of data from my NAS RAID 1 set up to the new Time Capsule (TC), the copying process is failing part way through [typically deep down in the Folder Structure] which as you can image is a real pain, a hopeless situation really…
Here is the Copy Faiure message:
The TC setup is simple, WiFi turned Off, DHCP, Bridge Mode. Connected directly by Ethernet to iMac and the NAS, and the WAN Ethernet port to an AirPort Extreme.
I also note a strange entry in the TC Airport Utility 'Logs and Statistics'…
Every five minutes, there is a Severity:5 message, an AFP Login, instantly closed?
Feb 25 12:13:56          Severity:5          AFP login OK from Robert [email protected].
Feb 25 12:13:56          Severity:5          AFP session from Robert [email protected] closing.
Feb 25 12:18:57          Severity:5          AFP login OK from Robert [email protected].
Feb 25 12:18:57          Severity:5          AFP session from Robert [email protected] closing.
10.0.1.2 is my iMac
What on earth is this log about, is it related to the failure of the copying of the backup files from NAS to TC...
I am in a desperate situation right now, since I am unable to continue with the backup and restructure of iPhoto and iTunes libraries, which are all resident on the NAS RAID 1 setup.
Am replacing all of the Ethernet cables involved, incase this is simply a 'bad connection'.
Would appreciate some feedback from anyone who may have cracked this issue...
Take note Apple, this is awful!… All my other stuff, prior to this incident, an Airport Extreme, an older Time Capsule as WiFi extension and storage, Airport Express, Macmini, works like a charm…
Robert

In order to create space on my MBA I just bumped iTunes media to G drive linked through Time Capsule. Now pointed iTunes at new iTunes libary on G drive and, even though all music files are there, iTunes can only 'see' 10 albums. Any help appreciated.

Bit more detail...
Mac Book Air has been struggling for space for a while so I bough at time capsule a) for back up and b) to host my itunes folder remotely. This didnt' work. I took it into the Genius bar and the genius there told me that time capsule is not designed for anything other than back up. Instead I have to connect a G drive through the time capsule's wireless router to my MBA.
I followed his instructions - moved my files from the Time Capsule and MBA directly onto the G Drive - which took a heartening 2 hrs so something must have been happening - and the held down 'Alt' when starting iTunes and selected the new itunes folder as the location of my itunes libarary which I wanted iTunes to 'point at'. When I opened iTunes only 10 albums are visible now.
In ITunes advanced preferences it says it is pointing at the correct folder. The files are all cleary there when I open the G Drive folder to take a look. But I cannot get iTunes to find them.
Any suggestions?
Secondary challenge - in spite of deleting the original itunes folder on my MBA I still get messages pop up telling me my start up disk is out of space and I need to clear some - I expected to stop getting this message now I had done this exercise above. I have emptied Trash. Again - any pointers appreciated. I am new to this world of 'intuitive' macbooks.
Cheers

After admittedly only a quick read the one thing you don't say is how you are trying to make this move. Most people with moving library issues do it the wrong way. Plenty of web sites tell you how to do it the wrong way.
If the iTunes application is started before the drive with the library is fully mounted and awake iTunes will revert back to the internal drive.

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