Hi all,
Simple question -- I've got a huge music library on my Mac and want to be able to listen to that music through iTunes when I'm in Windows. I've manually changed the iTunes library to the Mac directory and tried holding Shift when opening iTunes to set the library to the Mac part. When I do the latter it says that it's on a locked disk and I don't have write permissions.
I appreciate that when in Windows, I can't write to an HFS+ formatted partition. However all I want to do is simply play the music already in my library, and import it into Windows. I don't need to make changes or write data -- I just want to be able to play music without having to duplicate my library/recreate playlists.
Does anybody have any ideas?
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It's okay, answered my own question. Copied the Mac iTunes library then pasted into Windows. It's got all the songs ... Only problem is I need to manually point each file to the Mac side.
Any other ideas?
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Answered my own question again. Reset iTunes media folder location to the Mac partition and it all worked.
TL;DR:
1) copy iTunes library file from mac to windows
2) hold shift and open iTunes, point library to that one in the Windows side that you just copied
3) set iTunes media location to Mac side
Simple question -- I've got a huge music library on my Mac and want to be able to listen to that music through iTunes when I'm in Windows. I've manually changed the iTunes library to the Mac directory and tried holding Shift when opening iTunes to set the library to the Mac part. When I do the latter it says that it's on a locked disk and I don't have write permissions.
I appreciate that when in Windows, I can't write to an HFS+ formatted partition. However all I want to do is simply play the music already in my library, and import it into Windows. I don't need to make changes or write data -- I just want to be able to play music without having to duplicate my library/recreate playlists.
Does anybody have any ideas?
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It's okay, answered my own question. Copied the Mac iTunes library then pasted into Windows. It's got all the songs ... Only problem is I need to manually point each file to the Mac side.
Any other ideas?
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Answered my own question again. Reset iTunes media folder location to the Mac partition and it all worked.
TL;DR:
1) copy iTunes library file from mac to windows
2) hold shift and open iTunes, point library to that one in the Windows side that you just copied
3) set iTunes media location to Mac side