![]() That vectored me off onto a bit of a side stream, as I searched for a good bulk. m4a format and those files were not imported. Regrettably, almost half of my iTunes 12.x library is in. m4a (AAC format) files, and would only import my. What was going on?Īfter a bit of poking around and scratching my head, I figured it out. My iTunes 12.x library contains over 20 GB of music, while my newly imported iTunes 2.x library contained only just a little over 11 GB of music! Clearly, a lot of music had been missed in the import. ![]() In my case, with the Power Mac G4 Cube upgraded with a 1.2 GHz G4 CPU, and a full complement of 1.5 GB or RAM, it took about 5 minutes.Īt this point, I ran into a bump in the road. Depending on your CPU and the amount of RAM you have, this will take a greater or lesser amount of time. The import started and an “Adding Files” dialog was displayed, showing the progress of the import. I highlighted MyMusic and pressed the “Choose” button on the lower right of the window. I selected “File->Add to Library…” and then used the resulting file browser window to navigate to the folder containing the MyMusic folder. Next, I opened the MyMusic folder and deleted all the iTunes metadata files, and a few more besides, so that the folder contained ONLY music and nothing else. I don’t know if this step was necessary or not, but I did it as a precaution. If you are wondering where to find your iTunes folder, it is in your home folder, inside the Music subfolder, and is simply called “iTunes”.įrom the file server, I copied the full iTunes folder onto the PowerMac G4 Cube, and renamed it simply “MyMusic”, so as to not potentially confuse an early version of iTunes with a music folder named “iTunes” that it was not managing. Here at the Happy Macs Lab, we have a 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5 under Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger (my first personal Macintosh, from back in 2006) acting as the common file server, and it was to a shared folder on this machine that I copied the 27 GB or so of my music library to. I started the process by copying my entire iTunes folder from my iMac out onto a common file server that is visible to both the iMac and the target machine, a Power Mac G4 Cube running Mac OS 9.2.2. My current music library is hosted on my late 2011 27” iMac, running Mac OS X Mavericks and iTunes 12.0.1.26. In the end, I accomplished this successfully and this blog post reports on the process I used to accomplish the transfer. I decided to try moving my current iTunes 12.0.1.26 music library over to iTunes 2.0.4, and then use itunes 2.0.4 to load a portion of that library onto the 1 st generation iPod I reported on in the last post. ITunes 2.0.4 was the current version of iTunes when the iPod was released. While the iPod was a complete and standalone music player, it required iTunes to load music onto it and to manage its more complex functions. In keeping with Steve Job’s vision of the Mac as the home digital hub, the iPod was supported by iTunes 2.x. In our last post, we looked at the revolutionary new first generation iPod, the public’s reaction to it, its competition and finally a bit about iTunes 2.x.
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