{"id":607,"date":"2009-06-14T19:35:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T03:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=607"},"modified":"2009-05-31T19:36:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T03:36:02","slug":"the-magic-shift-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/06\/the-magic-shift-key\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Shift Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many iPod owners, I was frustrated with the inability to move my music library.  I have about 3,800 songs in my collection; most of them MP3s I ripped from my CDs.  Every once in a while, I need to move them.  Last time, a vicious virus wiped out my computer. I have back-ups, but iTunes did not know that I lost my files.<\/p>\n<p>I have a cumbersome way to move play lists.  I manually edited them to reflect the new location then re-import them one by one.<\/p>\n<p>This time, my C drive is full (yes, I am a PC user).  So I bought myself a bigger disk, put it in as a second drive, and started to move files onto the new D drive, except for my music.  Cursed iTunes to be overly protective on digital rights.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I found the magic shift key.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>Locate the directory that holds the file <i>iTunes Library.itl<\/i> Copy this whole directory to the new location.<\/li>\n<li>Copy all your music files to somewhere in the new location.<\/li>\n<li>Bring up iTunes while holding the SHIFT key.  iTunes will ask you to choose a library.  Point it to the newly copied <i>iTunes Library.itl<\/i> file.<\/li>\n<li>Select from the menu <i>Edit->Preference<\/i> and choose the <i>Advanced<\/i> tab.  Click <i>Change<\/i> to select the new home of your music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hours I spent editing XML file by hand and Apple has put all this in the simple SHIFT key.  I am actually upset.  Apple knew that users need this feature.  They tarnished their reputation by making this task not intuitive, not friendly, and actually hidden.  I am sure it is from the DRM concern.  Sigh, how much RIAA has made my life less enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many iPod owners, I was frustrated with the inability to move my music library. I have about 3,800 songs in my collection; most of them MP3s I ripped from my CDs. Every once in a while, I need to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/06\/the-magic-shift-key\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[230,231,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}