Dropbox + iTunes
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Anyone using Dropbox for their iTunes library storage? I'm thinking about upgrading to the 50GB plan this evening, but I'm curious about one thing in particular. That is, say I open up a ZIP of an album and then I open those files to iTunes. Do the songs add/save to my library on my Dropbox folder, or do they add locally (meaning I have to update my iTunes playlist/folder on Dropbox all over again)?
Thanks.
- WeLoveNoise0
i dont think u can u even do that can you ?
- Ruffian0
Are you crazy?
- airey0
pretty sure that won't work but i really have no idea. let us know hoe shit it turns out.
- Ruffian0
There are better storage services that offer unlimited backups for a fixed price.
- Ruffian0
"That is, say I open up a ZIP of an album and then I open those files to iTunes. Do the songs add/save to my library on my Dropbox folder, or do they add locally (meaning I have to update my iTunes playlist/folder on Dropbox all over again)?"
Depends on your iTunes settings.
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> choose your iTunes folder location -> check the box that asks if you want to copy files to iTunes folder
- airey0
just go buy an external drive. a raid gig drive will set you back about 100 bucks. then it's duped and localised.
- kona0
man, i have it on an external firewire with approx. 75GB of music. reconfiguring the playlist and updating genius takes a long ass time. i can't imagine how long it's going to take once you point itunes to the remote location. days dude. days.
- get a faster drive. i use a network one with about 300gig of music and tv shows. slight delays at times mind.airey
- then something is fubar with my drive/computer. it takes hours.kona
- i have 56 4GB flash drives daisy chained together. do you think that's why?kona
- hahahaha. no. i can't see a problem with that. mine is quite similar.airey
- welded0
What Ruffian said, but it won't sync your playlists or library file, just the audio files. Unless I'm doing something wrong, which is possible, my wife and I share a common iTunes folder where the audio data is stored but just because I buy a new song doesn't mean it'll show up unless she goes File > Open > and select the iTunes folder. It'll trawl through the whole directory and add anything new. A little clunky but it works OK.
- just share the library through one machine. that machine will appear on the right and be always up to date.airey
- you can also share a library on a network drive. just hold down option when starting up itunes.ephix
- I guess I should clarify that we don't want the same library. We uncheck different music and we have different podcasts.welded
- ********0
I'm looking to use Dropbox as my iTunes server for a reason. Three computers, three locations (not including my MBP) and I am getting fed up with synching across all three/four. Not interested in the external HDD for that reason.
It is definitely possible to use a remote location for your playlist/music files: http://storecrowd.com/blog/dropb…
I'm going to delete my plist from my MBP and try it with a very small amount of files first to see what happens. I'll post up the results afterwards.
- why? you can put everything on the hard drive (including the library .xml file or whatever) and just use it on whichever yu wantpastpastdue
- basically, do you know about option+clicking to open itunes and define a new library file?pastpastdue
- Yes, but I think you're missing the point that I'm trying to find if there's an automated/cloud way to do this. Thanks though.********
- ESKEMA0
You can use zumodrive. It's a dropbox clone that has iTunes integration.