Comments on: How To Move the iTunes Library to a Home Server while Keeping its Underlying Media Structure Intact

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:56:29 +0000

Excellent!

By: James

James — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:10:44 +0000

You are so awesome. I just bought a Drobo so I'm in your situation (or at least where you were a while back). I had been searching for how to do this for quite a while and was *almost* about to concede it and do it the way every other guide says to do it (by letting iTunes manage your files).

I was successfully able to migrate my library with all of my info intact using iTunes 9.1 on a Windows XP machine.

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:43:01 +0000

It is quite possible that your podcasts had been saved in a different hierarchy than your music files. Remember, you could have picked your music file directory but iTunes picks your podcast directory.

My suggestion is to recover your prior library as described at the end of the post and check out where your podcasts are stored. Then try to figure out how to migrate them too.

Worst case you can generally re-download podcasts for free. I had to do a little bit of podcast clean-up but most of them migrated fine when I did it.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:36:51 +0000

This seemed to wipe out my podcast subscriptions. I'm not sure that I can get them back now.

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:58:49 +0000

Fantastic! I'm so happy you found it useful.

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:58:49 +0000

Fantastic! I'm so happy you found it useful.

I updated the post above to warn against using Microsoft Word, though I do think it could work if you made a point of saving in Plain Text (.txt) format. Best to avoid it if possible though.

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:58:49 +0000

Fantastic! I'm so happy you found it useful.

I updated the post above to warn against using Microsoft Word, though I do think it could work if you made a point of saving in Plain Text (.txt) format. Best to avoid it if possible though.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:18:25 +0000

This may very well be one of the most productive pieces of information I have ever personally come across on the internet. I am a DJ who has had to switch software applications multiple times across different laptops, I've rebuilt digital catalogs and playlists multiple times, and with this post I was able to leverage my 5 year iTunes playlists without having to rebuild my playlists from scratch. Thank you so much!!!!!!!! ZERO OUT THE ITL FILE BABY!!! THATS THE KEY!!!!

One note, as you suggest use WordPad for editing, Word did not work (put a bunch of garbage in the xml).

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:18:25 +0000

One note, as you suggest use WordPad for editing, Word did not work (put a bunch of garbage in the xml).

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:18:25 +0000

One note, as you suggest use WordPad for editing, Word did not work (put a bunch of garbage in the xml).

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:18:25 +0000

One note, as you suggest use WordPad for editing, Word did not work (put a bunch of garbage in the xml).

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