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Question about Bootcamp and iTunes
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Jun 4, 2007, 01:09 PM
 
Hey, I'm curious. Using Bootcamp I've got windows XP up and running as a partition on my iMac. I have the latest version of iTunes (7.2), and I was wondering. Is there anyway to get iTunes on windows to recognize my Mac iTunes library, so if I'm working on something in Windows I can listen to my music? I've tried setting the library to the Mac one in the Windows iTunes, but that doesn't do it.
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Jun 4, 2007, 01:52 PM
 
Unless you copy the music over to the Windows partition, you'd have to use something like MacDrive so that Windows sees the Mac OS X partition and can open files off of it.

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Jun 4, 2007, 03:11 PM
 
I have MacDrive Installed. Also, I have a 250gig HardDrive with 150 gigs in my iTunes Library, so I can't copy everything over to Windows as I don't have enough sapce.
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iTunes preferences -> Advanced

Turn off "Copy files to iTunes music folder" then import or add the songs on the Mac volume to your PC iTunes.

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Jun 5, 2007, 11:04 PM
 
That did it, thanks man

Note, to copy the whole library, I chose Add Folder To Library, then chose iTunes Library
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