I’m not sure if it’s applicable for having your library on a server, but why do you need to dink with symlinks and all that, given that iTunes has a preference where you tell it where your music library is? I stick my family’s music in a shared user account, point everyone’s iTunes preferences to it, and we’re all good to go.
Like I said, I tried this and it didn’t work. What’s the secret? I tried it on the hard drive, in the shared folder, and on another disk. Nothing worked (I can change the folder, but the music doesn’t show up in the library).
This seems to be as good a place as any, so here goes.
I have several soundtracks and other things where the compilations tag is very useful to clean up my iTunes library. Unfortunately, that didn’t carry over into the iPod. It’s really annoying, as not having the compilations tag adds about 300 artists I have to go through in the artists menu. Any way to get that to carry over?
I wish I knew. I set the preferences to point to the remote directory but then every time I would start iTunes it would create a new, empty directory in my local account. Putting an alias there pointed to the remote directory seemed to make iTunes happy.