[m44tty]

Hi all,

I've got three Macs networked via ethernet. All three run OSX 10.2.8 and iTunes 4.7. Essentially the main library is held on a G3 iBook 800, with the other two sharing this, although my G4 Cube and Rev B iMac each have some local library, which they also share.

I recently bought a copy of iRooster (an alarm clock) in an attempt to unweld my head from my pillow in the morning, by using some get-up-and-go music from iTunes. iRooster will however only drill into a local iTunes library, not across a network.

So, I set up a playlist on my iBook and exported it to my Cube's Desktop as a .xml file. I opened iTunes and imported the file, but got a message 'Some of the songs in the file "filename.xml" were not imported because they could not be found'. Whereupon I get an empty, correctly named playlist folder added to my iTunes source listing.

If it makes any difference to anybody reading this, I'm also having trouble burning CDs from playlists on my iBook - I keep getting the message that my selection won't fit onto one CD: would I like to use multiple CDs, even though it's seemingly small amounts of data (in two cases less than 27 min of music).

The CD burn issue is posted separately, so please don't reply to it from here. Like I say, if it helps ring a bell with someone....

Can anybody help me export and import a playlist from one Mac to another please?

[tooki]

Exporting a playlist does not copy the music files. When you import it to the other Mac, the files aren't there, so it skips them from the playlist.

Instead, make your playlist, mount the other Mac's disk via the network, and then you can drag the files from the iTunes window to the destination disk (they'll be copied, not moved). Add the music files to the library on the second Mac, and then import the playlist.

Or just copy the entire iTunes folder, including the library files, to the other Mac. That will move all the music files and all the playlists.

tooki

[m44tty]

Tooki, thanks.

Playlist is now available on Cube. I just thought the idea behind sharing playlists was the same as sharing a library, ie, you don't have to repopulate every HDD with the same information. Clearly not so.

I look forward to tomorrow morning's wake-up call.

Many thanks,


Matt