I Tunes

[mapleleaf]

Could anyone please tell me where Itunes downloaded music is stored ie is there a default directory . I am thinking of reformatting my laptop and creating 1 40g C drive instead of its present 2x 20 g partitions . I dont want to risk losing my paid for itune tracks.

TIA

 

[pammy]

Mine is in:

My Doc's, My Music, iTunes, iTunes Music

 

[scotth_uk]

There's something else that you need to be aware of for purchased tracks - the DRM technology that apple use only allows 5 machines to be authorised to play purchased content. Given that your current machine is one of them, when you reinstall this machine and authorise again, you'll be down to 3 left.

Make sure that before you nuke the machine, you select 'deauthorise computer' from the store menu. You won't 'lose' an authorisation.

A handy tip - I didn't realise this and reinstalled myself into a corner last year.

 

[w124coupe]

You can also log on to your Itunes account and deauthorise all computers - then you start again with all 5.....Itunes will then prompt the DRM-owner userid to logon if you then try to play DRM tunes on a PC that isn't authorised.

Useful if you have used up the 5 but don't quite know how!

 

[scotth_uk]

W124coupe,

I've never seen that option on any of my machines, but the apple page mentioned it too - thanks for the tip.

http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/authorization/

 

[mapleleaf]

Perect, thanks very much . I have also discovered that the paid for tunes all end in .M4P

 

[pluggers]

Im not sure with itunes but dont you have to back up the licences as well, otherwise they wont play?(I could be wrong tho)

 

[roswaldo]

You could also download Copypod which will allow you to backup your iPod and re-import it to itunes when you reinsall it.

 

[blassberg]

be aware that if you put your collection on a drive on your network and map to that drive, eg as E:\music, that itunes often changes the filepath to the default if it cannot find the path, and then wants to rebuild your library (painfully for 30,000 songs)

 

[scotth_uk]

Blassberg,

When you reinstall the machine, don't you just go into iTunes preferences and point it at the right directory first time?

Scott

PS - There's a new offline library feature in version 7. Not tried it myself yet.