Seemingly strange situation...

[network23]

I recently got a Network Attached Storage device, and decided to move my iTunes library out to it. I found some link somewhere to an Apple Knowledgebase article (wish I could find that link again) that told me how to move my library. That worked like a charm. But here's the odd thing...

1. Before, in my music library folder at the root level is where the library-realted files for the music were located (the iTunes Library file and the iTunes Music Library.xml file). Anyway, now, on the NAS, there is nothing apart from the band folders. Any idea where these non-music files are located now? I'm not sure how to find them.

2. Now when I switch my Intel mac over to Windows, iTunes is still looking for the library in its old location. Any ideas or links to how I can point it to the new? I changed the location in Preferences, but nothing happens when I load iTunes, it just shows me a blank list.

Thanks!

More info: I played a couple of songs, making sure the play count advanced, quit iTunes, and then did a search over all my drives for "iTunes Music Library". None of the resulting files showed they were modified today. But it has to be pulling the play count info and song ratings from SOMEWHERE?

I also renamed the folder where all of these files reside on the NAS, and iTunes is still working fine.

[pink]

Maybe this (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195) is helpful. If you used these instructions, the files you look for are still in your ~/Music/iTunes Folder. (Which makes sense since you want to share music, but usually not play counts, playlists etc.).

cheers, pink

[network23]

Close. That wasn't the page I had found before. It dealt more with moving the music library from one computer to another, keeping the rankings and playcounts intact.

And yes, I agree with you completely that you would not want playcounts and rankings to "move" over to other users, but in this case (same user switching between Mac and Windows on an Intel Mac), I would want to be able to see and modify my playcounts and rankings in both locations. And ideally, allow other users of my computer to have their own sets of playcounts and rankings.