27.12.12

How to move your iTunes library to a NAS | TUAW

How to move your iTunes library to a NAS | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Given how many functions iTunes is actually used for these days (iOS syncing, app shopping, and book, music, and movie buying), it's easier than ever to forget what it was originally used for: listening to music. But of course that's still the software's main function, and if you want to move your entire library over to an NAS -- which stands for network-attached storage, or a hard drive that connects up to a local area network -- then this writeup from Ars Technica has you covered.

The easiest way to share an iTunes library in this way is simply to move the mp3 files (and then re-add them to whatever installation of iTunes you're using), but as Ars says, that will lose all of your collected metadata so far. If you want to actually keep all of your extra data, however, you'll need to actually move your folder location in iTunes to your new NAS folder, and then tell iTunes to copy over all of your collected music and data.

Note that because of the differences between file systems (some may be case-sensitive and some not), just moving your iTunes files location may cause a few issues. And of course having a larger or more complicated library can be problematic as well -- if your library is due for a cleaning, it might be worth it just to say goodbye to the data so far and move on. But iTunes can be resilient if you do your homework before trying to make the move.

There are other ways to do this as well -- you could just share your library from one computer to another with the built-in library sharing feature on your Mac. Or you could move a hard drive around (which might be handy if you need the library in a few different networks, like home and work), keeping your entire library on there. There are plenty of cloud options as well, which will only become more and more easy to use as time goes on.

iTunes may be used for all sorts of other operations these days, but it's still a very robust and powerful music listening and organization app as well.


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@Brian Gray Not true. I have my iTunes Library on a NAS with no issues whatsoever and it is over 4TB (yes, terabytes). Your issues may have been the NAS (I use a BuffaloTech). Now, backing up this bad boy... That's a whole other story :)

Brian Gray

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@IainBrown @Brian Gray How much of your library do you sync to an iOS device? That is the main time in which iTunes runs into problems. The other problem is maintaining the library, like editing album art and changing meta data. I have not tested with other NAS devices, but my Synology is one of the fastest on the market. The problems were definitely related to iTunes on the Mac, because it works perfectly with a PC.

Brian Gray

Brian Gray
I have been running my iTunes library on a Synology NAS for many years, both with the Mac and PC version of iTunes. I would not recommend this for Mac users. The Mac version of iTunes becomes massively unstable with its media library on a NAS. It crashes so frequently that it can take a dozen or more attempts to sync a large media library. (I have 30GB library syncing to 32GB+ devices.) It is better with smaller devices syncing only a portion of my library, but not much. The PC version of iTunes is fine with the media library on a NAS. I am now forced to use a PC to host iTunes-- it is orders of magnitude faster and never crashes.

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13.12.12

Liferay Portal - a free and open source enterprise portal

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Developer(s) Liferay
Stable release 6.1 (6.1 GA2) / July 31, 2012; 4 months ago
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Enterprise portal, content management framework, content management system, community
License LGPL License [1] and proprietary[1]
Website http://www.liferay.com

Liferay Portal is a free and open source enterprise portal written in Java and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License[2] and proprietary licenses.[1] It is primarily used to power corporate intranets and extranets.[citation needed]

Liferay Portal allows users to set up features common to websites. It is fundamentally constructed of functional units called portlets.[3] Liferay is sometimes described as a content management framework or a web application framework. Liferay's support for plugins extends into multiple programming languages, including support for PHP and Ruby portlets.[4]

Although Liferay offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Liferay Portal is Java based and runs on any computing platform capable of running the Java Runtime Environment and an application server. Liferay is available bundled with a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat.[5]

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10.12.12

Steve Jobs - bycycles for the mind



" I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation.

So, that didn’t look so good.

But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.

    And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our
minds.” ~

           Steve Jobs

Bicycles For Our Minds by Michael Mulvey — Kickstarter

Bicycles For Our Minds by Michael Mulvey — Kickstarter

Steve Jobs believed "the computer is like a bicycle for our minds". This is a poster series illustrating that wonderful metaphor.
  • Launched: Dec 5, 2011
  • Funding ended: Jan 4, 2012

What People Are Saying

"Steve Jobs’ talk comparing computers to “a bicycle for our minds” is definitely one of my favorites. Apparently, Michael Mulvey feels the same way, as he launched a Kickstarter project to create a graphic and prints of the quote."
MG Siegler, TechCrunch columnist