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iTunes library on Powerbook and Powermac
Jamie Phelps | Feb 28 2006
Let's see if I can state this cogently. I use my Powerbook exponentially more than I use my Powermac (G4 Sawtooth 400MHz 640MB RAM). The Powermac is basically a music jukebox for my office. When I am in there, I turn on the tunes and visualizer and try to get actual work done on my Powerbook. Anyway... The problem is like this: I do almost all of my downloading and video conversion on my Powerbook. A while back I shuttled off a bunch of music that I know I won't listen to but want to keep around to my Powermac so it wasn't taking up space on my Powerbook and iPod. What I would like to do is use my Powermac for syncing my iPod because it has a 50% larger hard drive and fewer apps and such clogging up the hard drive, but I still want to have tunes and shows on my Powerbook available for listening when I forget the iPod or something. But, I also need to get the new stuff from the Powerbook to the Powermac in order to sync to iPod for this to work. Anyone have experience with this kind of thing? 2 Comments
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 Well, there isn't really an...Submitted by emory on February 28, 2006 - 8:07am.
Well, there isn't really an easy way to do this. This is what I do: I have a disk on my household fileserver, called /music. In that folder are two other folders. EmorysMusic and LizsMusic, his and hers if you will. The sum total of this slice is 130GB with few duplicates. The upside to this is that my file server can serve up music to the TiVo, the XboxMediaCenter, the EyeHome and the HomePod (a little wifi tabletop radio). I set my iTunes libraries on all my computers to point to the fileserver. You're right, that this isn't what you are asking for. There is no really elegant way to store multiple libraries. I *really* wish my wife and I could reliably merge our libraries into one, but it just isn't going to happen for now. But my PowerBook can then manipulate, play, burn CDs and such from that store. I can't "forget my iPod" because it lives in my bag. I never use it at home, only when I'm at out and about and so its rare that I'm without it. I think part of it for me was this; if I am somewhere without an iPod, I probably don't have headphones. I don't like listening to other people's music, so I assume they don't like to listen to mine. Besides, the speakers on the PowerBook suck compared to headphones or a boomin' system. So that was my rationale for giving up. I hope it helps! hah. » POSTED IN:
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