Hi
I have searched everywhere in the help menus and through the forum and am getting no where. I have a Mac Pro that I use as a mother ship for my entire library. There is a 1TB drive with appx. 850 gigs of music in MP3 VBR on the Mac Pro. I duped the drive to an external WD 7200rpm 1 TB drive. Now I am trying to import the music files, obviously, without the music, to my Itunes folder on the MBP. It is a 2007 MBP, 2.2 w/4gigs of RAM and I am using Traktor 3 and DJ1800 as the programs for the music (I run a mobile DJ service). I have 4 of these computers as we are making the entire jump to digital from CD this summer.
Itunes is an incredible organizing foundation for both of these programs. BUT, with a library this big (115,000 songs), I cannot figure out how to import it! When I plug in the external HD, it shows up on the desktop, I can open it and see all of the files (Artists). When I click on a specific song, it will open Itunes and play it fine....HOWEVER, when I swithced in preferences to this drive as my Itunes drive and had it "Keep files organized" it doesn't load any of the music. When I go to Import music, I have to click all the way down to the single song (I can't choose files of artists.) When I tried "adding to library" it worked, but I did it from 9pm last night til 7am this morning and only 8,000 of the songs...in 10 hours! Ugh...I have a wedding tomorrow and trying to figure out the best way to get those music tags and titles in the Itunes list....does anyone have any suggestions? Or am I best off inside of Traktor just going track by track from the external?
Looking for anyone with monster libraries....OR, you used all WAV, which I have on one drive and only 20,000 songs....would this work better? I am terribly confused!
I do have CDs to back up so I will have show, but I want ITunes to manage my music.
Take care and thanks for the guidance,
Jeremy
I have searched everywhere in the help menus and through the forum and am getting no where. I have a Mac Pro that I use as a mother ship for my entire library. There is a 1TB drive with appx. 850 gigs of music in MP3 VBR on the Mac Pro. I duped the drive to an external WD 7200rpm 1 TB drive. Now I am trying to import the music files, obviously, without the music, to my Itunes folder on the MBP. It is a 2007 MBP, 2.2 w/4gigs of RAM and I am using Traktor 3 and DJ1800 as the programs for the music (I run a mobile DJ service). I have 4 of these computers as we are making the entire jump to digital from CD this summer.
Itunes is an incredible organizing foundation for both of these programs. BUT, with a library this big (115,000 songs), I cannot figure out how to import it! When I plug in the external HD, it shows up on the desktop, I can open it and see all of the files (Artists). When I click on a specific song, it will open Itunes and play it fine....HOWEVER, when I swithced in preferences to this drive as my Itunes drive and had it "Keep files organized" it doesn't load any of the music. When I go to Import music, I have to click all the way down to the single song (I can't choose files of artists.) When I tried "adding to library" it worked, but I did it from 9pm last night til 7am this morning and only 8,000 of the songs...in 10 hours! Ugh...I have a wedding tomorrow and trying to figure out the best way to get those music tags and titles in the Itunes list....does anyone have any suggestions? Or am I best off inside of Traktor just going track by track from the external?
Looking for anyone with monster libraries....OR, you used all WAV, which I have on one drive and only 20,000 songs....would this work better? I am terribly confused!
I do have CDs to back up so I will have show, but I want ITunes to manage my music.
Take care and thanks for the guidance,
Jeremy