jmpage2
11-08-2009, 12:08 PM
I'm hoping that there's a resolution for this, but I'm not so sure at the moment. Some scripts seem to deal with areas of this problem but not the entire thing.
I have a large music library located on a network share \\gizmo\music. iTunes is set up on my machine (an iMac) to NOT manage my music and all tracks are referenced as being in \Volumes\Music which directly corresponds to the above SMB share.
So, in a nutshell my stuff works fine.
Now, here's where we get into trouble.
My wife, who has a macbook pro, IS set up to have iTunes manage her music, since she wants to take said music on the road with her on the Macbook. She has used the Library sharing feature, etc, to copy a large chunk of my music onto her MBP.
Her music path references her local file system and also only references the locations on her personal directory for given albums (for example, on the SMB share all of the album folders have the year in the album folder).
What I am trying to do is export her playlists and bring them in to my Mac, without creating duplicate copies, etc, of any of the music. These playlists would then be exported for use with other music servers I have so that her playlists would be accessible and properly reference the SMB network path that is correct for a given music title (I regularly export my playlists in .m3u format using iTunes Exporter for example and it works great).
Is there any way to export her playlists and then import them on my machine so that my machine attempts to locate the given tracks in my existing library and not need to re-import them?
Thanks.
I have a large music library located on a network share \\gizmo\music. iTunes is set up on my machine (an iMac) to NOT manage my music and all tracks are referenced as being in \Volumes\Music which directly corresponds to the above SMB share.
So, in a nutshell my stuff works fine.
Now, here's where we get into trouble.
My wife, who has a macbook pro, IS set up to have iTunes manage her music, since she wants to take said music on the road with her on the Macbook. She has used the Library sharing feature, etc, to copy a large chunk of my music onto her MBP.
Her music path references her local file system and also only references the locations on her personal directory for given albums (for example, on the SMB share all of the album folders have the year in the album folder).
What I am trying to do is export her playlists and bring them in to my Mac, without creating duplicate copies, etc, of any of the music. These playlists would then be exported for use with other music servers I have so that her playlists would be accessible and properly reference the SMB network path that is correct for a given music title (I regularly export my playlists in .m3u format using iTunes Exporter for example and it works great).
Is there any way to export her playlists and then import them on my machine so that my machine attempts to locate the given tracks in my existing library and not need to re-import them?
Thanks.