Copied itunes to nas. Not showing in shared in iTunes.

[john1000000boy]

Using a MacBook I have copied my iTunes to my buffalo Linkstation nas.

I can see the nas in my shared folder in iTunes.

I can see there is over 50 gB of space used up on the nas. I cannot see any of my itunes when I click on the nas in iTunes. It says there are zero items??

There should be just over 50gB of music in apple lossless.

Am I missing a step??

i still have all my iTunes stored on my MacBook.

Thanks in advance

john

 

[scene]

If you copied the files outside iTunes, then iTunes won't know anything about where you've moved the files.

You need to let iTunes know where you've moved it to - starting iTunes while holding down the option key should let you enter the new location - see this thread on the apple forums.

 

[john1000000boy]

Thanks scene. Will look into it later on.

john

 

[john1000000boy]

Just finished ripping CDs to MacBook.... 79gB.

Will leave it copying over to nas.

I have a feeling that itunes is only accessing from my library and not from the "shared" nas in iTunes. This will be my next step. Hopefully this means I will be able to access my music from other devices like amp or iPad to Airplay or use media server on amp as I cant jailbreak my Apple TV 2

when I selected a track on the Mac no sound came on and an ! Came up next to the selected track. Then when I turned on nas I can only assume that the Mac accessed the nas to play the selected track as it played fine??

john