Aqua-Soft ForumsThings Needed:
1. Windows and Mac OS X installed on the same computer.
2. MacDrive installed in Windows.
3. Enough free space on your OS X boot partition to store your iTunes library.
4. Temporarily, enough space on your Windows boot partition to store your iTunes library.
5. This guide assumes you have an iTunes Library is in Windows only. Your Mac OS X iTunes library will be deleted during this guide.
6. Your Windows boot partition must be formatted using NTFS.
Limitations:
1. If you start iTunes just after you switched your OS, it will update your library. It could take a couple of minutes if your library is very large.
2. You must let iTunes organize the music folder for you.
Instructions:
MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR LIBRARY BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!
In Mac OS X:
1. Open iTunes.
2. Go to Preferences and then to the Advanced tab.
3. Go to the General tab (inside the Advanced tab) and click Reset.
3. Check the Keep iTunes Music folder organized and the Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library.
4. Reboot to Windows.
In Windows:
1. Open iTunes and go to Edit->Preferences (or press Ctrl+,), and go to the Advanced tab.
2. Go to the General tab (inside the Advanced tab) and click Reset.
3. Check the Keep iTunes Music folder organized and the Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library.
4. Click OK, go to Advanced->Consolidate Library. This will copy all the music in your library to C:Documents and SettingsYOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAMEMy DocumentsMy MusiciTunesiTunes Music and change the directory stucture and file names as necessary.
5. IMPORTANT: Close iTunes.
6. Go to C:Documents and SettingsYOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAMEMy DocumentsMy Music.
7. Copy the iTunes folder there, and go to X:UsersYOUR_MAC_USERNAMEMusic (X: is your OS X boot partition).
8. Delete the iTunes folder found there, and paste the one you copied earlier.
9. Go back to C:Documents and SettingsYOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAMEMy DocumentsMy Music.
10. Rename the iTunes folder found there to iTunes2, and create an empty folder called iTunes.
11. Download Junction Link Magic (http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm).
12. Open it, and create a junction point from C:Documents and SettingsYOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAMEMy DocumentsMy MusiciTunes to X:UsersYOUR_MAC_USERNAMEMusiciTunes.
13. Open iTunes and see that you can still play all your music.
That's it, now Mac OS X and Windows share the exact same iTunes library.
You can delete the iTunes2 folder if everything went well.
NOTE: Never delete the C:Documents and SettingsYOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAMEMy DocumentsMy MusiciTunes folder before removing the junction point! deleting it will also delete the real folder that it's linked to!
