I am looking to build my iTunes library and I am trying to find a way to store all my music in one place / on one drive. Will this work?
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Sure. This is not about WD 4TB NAS. This is much more about storing music in a logical way on a disk drive, and then telling itunes where the music is, avoiding itunes screwing with your careful disk layout, and gracefully letting itunes build it's internal database (and performing the transfer to the itunes devices. Any diskdrive will do, including WD 4TB NAS. I only have one comment about WD4TB My Cloud. The WD software is extremely keen to share your disk contents with the internet (protected only by your login/password.) It requires significant thought to use the MyCloud as a NAS, and not implement the Cloud functionality. Caveat Emptor.
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Hi Joel, I was looking to do the same thing and the My Cloud has been a great solution. Would recommend that if you're going to move massive amounts of music to your My Cloud then you do it from a computer that has a Ethernet connection to your home network vice a wireless connection....it's way faster that way. Hope that helps
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I've got it. I still use external backup drives. I get this thing, but if the transfer is slow over wireless, and you need to plug it in to transfer more efficiently, it is basically an external backup drive. If you have a smart TV or other devices that can tap into the mycloud to play music or watch videos, etc... then maybe that's a good solution. I have some stuff as a backup device, and then what doesn't fit on my computer I can access easily on that drive. That is a wonderful solution, as it makes it virtually seem like it's on my laptop. But it's just an external hard drive that is always turned on. I've got it. I still use external backup drives. I get this thing, but if the transfer is slow over wireless, and you need to plug it in to transfer more efficiently, it is basically an external backup drive. If you have a smart TV or other devices that can tap into the mycloud to play music or watch videos, etc... then maybe that's a good solution. I have some stuff as a backup device, and then what doesn't fit on my computer I can access easily on that drive. That is a wonderful solution, as it makes it virtually seem like it's on my laptop. But it's just an external hard drive that is... » Read More I've got it. I still use external backup drives. I get this thing, but if the transfer is slow over wireless, and you need to plug it in to transfer more efficiently, it is basically an external backup drive. If you have a smart TV or other devices that can tap into the mycloud to play music or watch videos, etc... then maybe that's a good solution. I have some stuff as a backup device, and then what doesn't fit on my computer I can access easily on that drive. That is a wonderful solution, as it makes it virtually seem like it's on my laptop. But it's just an external hard drive that is always turned on. « Show Less
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Yes, there is an option to enable itunes sharing and there is also an option to enable Twonky media server which lets you share music to any device outside of itunes.
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Sure. This is not about WD 4TB NAS. This is much more about storing music in a logical way on a disk drive, and then telling itunes where the music is, avoiding itunes screwing with your careful disk layout, and gracefully letting itunes build it's internal database (and performing the transfer to the itunes devices. Any diskdrive will do, including WD 4TB NAS. I only have one comment about WD4TB My Cloud. The WD software is extremely keen to share your disk contents with the internet (protected only by your login/password.) It requires significant thought to use the MyCloud as a NAS, and not implement the Cloud functionality. Caveat Emptor. Sure. This is not about WD 4TB NAS. This is much more about storing music in a logical way on a disk drive, and then telling itunes where the music is, avoiding itunes screwing with your careful disk layout, and gracefully letting itunes build it's internal database (and performing the transfer to the itunes devices. Any diskdrive will do, including WD 4TB NAS. I only have one comment about WD4TB My Cloud. The WD software is extremely keen to share your disk contents with the internet (protected only by your login/password.) It requires significant thought to use the MyCloud as a NAS, and... » Read More Sure. This is not about WD 4TB NAS. This is much more about storing music in a logical way on a disk drive, and then telling itunes where the music is, avoiding itunes screwing with your careful disk layout, and gracefully letting itunes build it's internal database (and performing the transfer to the itunes devices. Any diskdrive will do, including WD 4TB NAS. I only have one comment about WD4TB My Cloud. The WD software is extremely keen to share your disk contents with the internet (protected only by your login/password.) It requires significant thought to use the MyCloud as a NAS, and not implement the Cloud functionality. Caveat Emptor. « Show Less
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The short answer is "No". You back up an iPad with iTunes. You have to use the apps that designed for an iPad. Now, once you back up your iPad with iTunes, then you back up your computer with the external drive.
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I don't entirely understand the question, but I'll give you my scenario. I have an old computer that was built in 2002, it has a 40 Gb hard drive that is partitioned, and it runs USB 1.1. I also have a new Dell Vista machine where my main iTunes library is stored, that is at a different location so networking isn't an option. I wanted to back up my music, and I wanted to play it on the old machine, so I bought one of these drives for that. Now I don't have to use 16 (or so, I think the actual capacity is 15.something Gb) Gb of space on that tiny hard drive, I can use the USB drive for all my music. It opened up the space on the old hard drive so I don't have to duplicate the music files there. ITunes reads just fine from the flash drive over USB 1.1; it took some work to copy all the files into iTunes from the flash drive though and get it all set up. As long as the drive letter stays the same, iTunes can find the music any time that flash drive is plugged in and play directly from it. I hope this helps.
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Where their is a will, there is a way. However, I find that support for iTune or any other playlists to be troublesome at best across all players with the exception of iTunes across apple products. To get the same effect trouble free, I simply create folders by the name of the playlists and copy those songs to those folders and chose folders like playlists. This system will work great with any player that supports files which is pretty much all of them. Assuming that you have high quality files and good headphones, the increased sound quality over apple products or any other player in its price range will make the trouble well worth the effort. The X5 is uniquely good in terms of SQ. Where their is a will, there is a way. However, I find that support for iTune or any other playlists to be troublesome at best across all players with the exception of iTunes across apple products. To get the same effect trouble free, I simply create folders by the name of the playlists and copy those songs to those folders and chose folders like playlists. This system will work great with any player that supports files which is pretty much all of them. Assuming that you have high quality files and good headphones, the increased sound quality over apple products or any other player in its... » Read More Where their is a will, there is a way. However, I find that support for iTune or any other playlists to be troublesome at best across all players with the exception of iTunes across apple products. To get the same effect trouble free, I simply create folders by the name of the playlists and copy those songs to those folders and chose folders like playlists. This system will work great with any player that supports files which is pretty much all of them. Assuming that you have high quality files and good headphones, the increased sound quality over apple products or any other player in its price range will make the trouble well worth the effort. The X5 is uniquely good in terms of SQ. « Show Less
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I use PC and Windows and Ubuntu so I do not know that music files from itunes library can be stored or not.But as it is a storing device for any type of file so my guess is that it should.
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Yes - thumb drive or iPod or iPhone etc. I haven't checked the thumb drive but when iPhone is plugged, it shows artists, playlist tracks etc.So I think it should be able to show folders on thumb drive.
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I'm not entirely sure, I primarily store jpeg images on it. I know as long as the music files are standard MP3 (this standard format can play in any device). You may want to check with Apple "Genius" in store or online to get definitive answer (especially enquire what exactly format of files iTunes are). I hope this helps.
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Using iTunes you can move music from any Apple type device to another. You would have to sync the nano first and go through the setup but as long as your iTunes has the music you want on the nano on there you can do it.
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Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far including dedicated windows machines. I probably have about 800 movies. Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far... » Read More Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far including dedicated windows machines. I probably have about 800 movies. « Show Less
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Thanks for your advice. The flip side of the beauty of not being locked into iTunes sounds like I would have to purchase a whole new library though, if I was not able to transfer from iTunes. True? And how would I be able to transfer music off my CD's into a Sansa?
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You must have a huge iTunes file if you need 10 Terabytes. Love this but I am concerned because if one hard drive fails, you lose the whole thing.
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I'm not sure what you are using to store your music on your computer. I have Amazon Music. You might have iTunes or something like that. Make sure that is on and activated on your computer before plugging in your device.
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Yeah, probably... 2 different file systems, but there is a way. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2518
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It works the same in Windows. Windows Explorer shows it as two seperate drives, but the unit itself doesn't know the difference between music stored on the main memory and music stored on the SD card.
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My apologies on my misunderstanding. iTunes seems to either be the software you love and can't do without or the source of all evil in the computing world. It appears that not many people are neutral about it. One thing I have noticed is that people who hate it don't like using it the way the designers intended (letting iTunes do all the backend organizing, filing, etc). If you have specific ways you want your files organized which differ from iTunes, you'll always be fightining with it. You might want to play around with some of the 3rd party options. I've heard good things about MediaMonkey and Anaphod (sp?). Best of luck.
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Yes, I've moved iTunes mp3 files with it. You need to find the computer path where files are stored and move from there--not directly from iTunes interface. Don't remember how good this worked for keeping albums together...
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I've heard it is, but I just did it. I submitted an email to the apple support team and they sent me links addressing how to legally move your music library from one computer to another. Bottom line... It can be done. Don't let the rumors scare you out of purchasing an I-Pod.