I recently purchased a MacBook Pro and have been slowly going through the process of moving from a multi-desktop environment (Macs and PCs) to primarily using this laptop for everything.
I use iTunes for music, and my library is too big to store on this machine's internal HD, so I'm going to stick my library folder on an external. I want to be able to access my library from both Windows and Mac OS X.
I have an external drive, HFS+, with MacDrive on the Windows partition. The library files (iTunes Music Library.xml and iTunes Library.itl) are stored in '~/Music/iTunes/' on OS X and '~/My Doucments/My Music/iTunes/' on Windows. These files seems to be cross-platform. I have both the OS X and the Windows's library set to the external drive, and I'm currently simulating the two reading the same library file by copying them over each time.
It works, but the problem is that iTunes performs a lengthy (5-10minute solid) 'updating library' process every time I switch operating systems.
Is there a better solution or a workaround for this?
I use iTunes for music, and my library is too big to store on this machine's internal HD, so I'm going to stick my library folder on an external. I want to be able to access my library from both Windows and Mac OS X.
I have an external drive, HFS+, with MacDrive on the Windows partition. The library files (iTunes Music Library.xml and iTunes Library.itl) are stored in '~/Music/iTunes/' on OS X and '~/My Doucments/My Music/iTunes/' on Windows. These files seems to be cross-platform. I have both the OS X and the Windows's library set to the external drive, and I'm currently simulating the two reading the same library file by copying them over each time.
It works, but the problem is that iTunes performs a lengthy (5-10minute solid) 'updating library' process every time I switch operating systems.
Is there a better solution or a workaround for this?