Tuesday, January 27, 2004

GarageBand and multiple iTunes Music Library files I was playing around with GarageBand last night, the first time I've had a chance to see what all the excitement is about. In short, it is very cool. I'll post more about it as I go, including some songs I've had in my head for a while that I'm eager to get out. But first, I wanted to share a disconcerting experience. After I made my first song, I selected the menu item "Export to iTunes". A dialog appears saying, "File not found", then the export proceeded. When iTunes launched, my entire catalog was missing, and the new song was the only song available. Ack! Well, turns out that, like Mac OS X itself, iTunes looks in several places for its library information. Mine has always been stored in my ~/Documents/iTunes directory, but GarageBand saw fit to make a new one at ~/Music/iTunes, and iTunes sees that folder before it sees the other one. By deleting the folder created by GarageBand and relaunching iTunes, I was able to recover my entire catalog (as well as all my playcounts and other stats). I remember reading someone's weblog yesterday about this very issue, but of course I can't remember who it was. I'm hoping this post finds you... 9:47:01 AM    trackback []