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RougeUnderoos · 10-29-2009, 10:09 PM

I might be in the market to buy a new computer soon and here's my deal:

I'm on a macbook right now and it has music on there, in iTunes . I have a PC with a music folder, full of other music, and I play the music from that folder in windows media player.

I've burned, by hand, all this music into these machines. I do not want to do it again onto a new machine.

Can I do this:
1. Buy an external hard drive
2. Plug EHD into old PC, transfer music onto EHD
3. Plug EHD into old Mac, transfer music onto EHD
4. Plug EHD into new Mac, listen to music from EHD

I don't care about portability. It won't be going anywhere. I want a piece of equipment that will sit next to my computer and store all this music. It'll be used as nothing more than a newfangled juke box to play over the speakers plugged into my computer.

Here's one that I'm thinking of. Would it work on this thing?

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Product...7%28ME%29.aspx

ma-skis.com · 10-30-2009, 08:54 AM

You could connect your machines through a network and just transfer the files all directly as well. regardless of platform

mykalberta · 10-30-2009, 10:42 AM

I think your ED option would be easier than home networking Macs and PC's given your original questions.

If all machines were PC then yes. I cant say 100% yes with Macs, but I would assume yes - just make sure ED is formatted in a way that Mac can see it - Fat32 maybe?

If you dont know what Fat32 is - most new ED should be already formatted for either Mac or PC

Cliche · 10-30-2009, 10:50 AM

If you have itunes/quicktime installed onto the pc, they are connectable via finder on the mac. I'm not too sure about connecting from pc to mac, but I've had lots of success of setting up a shared folder on a pc and just dumping mac files to/from it. (all done on tiger/leopard)

The additional bloatware of itunes includes appletalk so it's easier than ever to transfer files.

Hack&Lube · 10-30-2009, 10:54 AM

You mean you ripped all that music by hand from CDs?

How much music is on there? What is the total filesize?

sclitheroe · 10-30-2009, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Cliche

The additional bloatware of itunes includes appletalk so it's easier than ever to transfer files.

No, lol....It uses TCP/IP just like any other app. It also uses Bonjour, which is a service discovery protocol based on zeroconf that makes it easy for iTunes to find other iTunes hosts, but that too is a TCP/IP based protocol.

Appletalk is completely deprecated in Snow Leopard and considered unsupported.

RougeUnderoos · 10-30-2009, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

You mean you ripped all that music by hand from CDs?

How much music is on there? What is the total filesize?

I don't know, maybe 500 albums in total. I don't know the total filesize. I'd literally have to dust off the old computer to figure that out, but it's 13GB on the Mac that I have. Probably no more than 50GB between the two of them.

And yeah, by hand. Over a long time.

Anyway, thanks for all the answers fellas. It sounds like this is at least possible. I was kind of expecting a few people to say "of course you can't do that ya dummy".

luloo · 10-30-2009, 06:47 PM

You can transfer over the network, my mac can connect to my PC with no problems, it is the other way where I usually have problems.

The EHD is a great idea. If it is mostly music and small files it works fine. If the EHD is formated as FAT (or FAT 32) both the Mac and PC can read it, the ONLY downfall is that no file over 4 GB can go on a FAT formatted drive. If you don't have that issue, go for an EHD that way you always have your music backed up. That is my 2 cents.

luloo · 10-30-2009, 09:35 PM

Hey, this seems to be cheaper at bestbuy right now http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/prodde...on=L&langid=EN

ma-skis.com · 10-30-2009, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by luloo

You can transfer over the network, my mac can connect to my PC with no problems, it is the other way where I usually have problems.

Yeah, as long as one can connect you're just either copying from or to a machine, which one connects to which isn't a big deal. Done this a couple times from XP to tiger, imagine it'd just be easier with leopard and win 7.... (seems stupid to say that now that i've typed it)

just read it up on the web, i know tiger even has a option for connecting to windows computers when you go system preferences > sharing