![]() Apple Music subscription), then you’re stuck with Music. I have felt tied to Music since I also still use my iPhone for listening to tracks when in the car, If anyone has more thoughts, keep 'em coming. So I’ll delve into all the ideas here and see what might work. There are some high end options that look intriguing, if pricy. I have felt tied to Music since I also still use my iPhone for listening to tracks when in the car, but I’m seriously considering moving mobile listening to a mp3/third party “iPod” option. Thus having copies on both the desktop Mini at home and my laptop when traveling is very helpful. So I keep the Transcribe files in a separate folder, but they point to various files in my iTunes/Music media folder. It’s great for studying recordings and solos and learning tunes. Transcribe creates it’s own data file that’s quite small and just points to the original audio file without modifying it. In part for travel and in part because I’m a musician and also use a program called Transcribe that lets you slow down audio file and put all sorts of bookmarks and cue points in an audio file. I pretty much do need access from multiple computers. I’m intrigued by Plex and will explore, though it’s not clear how convenient it would be away fro home, but I’ll delve into it. Hey, thanks everyone for the plethora of ideas and feedback. So any other thoughts on this? Much appreciation in advance for any help. I know I can host it on a local server and access it from multiple devices, but I’d like to have the library available on my laptop when away from home. (Yeah, I know this was a little risky but it worked for years without incident.) When OSX went to the Music app, this option no longer seems to work reliably. When the old iTunes OSX app was current, I had pretty good success keeping the media folder in Dropbox and accessing it from both computers, as long as I didn’t open both apps at the same time. Given the number of stories I’ve heard of people’s collections disappearing when they activate Apple Music Match or whatever they call it now, I really want to avoid that, (and I’m not really interested in another monthly fee anyway.) ![]() I’ve got a collection of about 30,000 tracks, mostly from my own CDs but some from online purchases and a number from out of print LP records I own. If you want to reverse the direction I would create a second automator script and just reverse the source and destination paths in the command.So, I’ve been researching this topic for a while now with no satisfactory solutions, so I figured I’d ask here…ĭoes anyone have a good solution for keeping an iTunes library in sync acros two computers - my laptop and desktop - that doesn’t involve Apple Music’s syncing service (which by all reports is still a bit of disaster.) You are correct this is a one way sync only. Make sure you have a backup of your iTunes before you start testing it out You'll have to play around the options yourself to get the command built to your needs. > at the end simply directs the output to a log file (since automator doesn't really show you anything when it runs shell scripts) I excluded hidden files and my Library.xml file exclude: excludes certain files from the sync. e ssh: chooses an alternative remote shell (i don't really remember why i use this) size-only: skip files that match in size delete: if something has been removed from the source, it will delete it on the destination ![]() ![]() force: prevents you from having to confirming overwriting files av: -a basically says to sync everything recursively and preserve things like date modified, -v is just verbose mode (so I have more details written to my log file) Rsync -av -force -delete -stats -size-only -e ssh -exclude="ethumbs_vista.db" -exclude=".DS_Store" -exclude="iTunes\ Library.xml" /Volumes/iTunes/* ~/Music/iTunes > ~/Documents/AutomatorLogs/iTunesMSync.log
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