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Sync up Five iTunes Libraries With Shareware app Syncopation

ollie — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:05:33 +0000

Mac OS X only: Shareware application Syncopation keeps your music, podcasts, and video in sync between up to five iTunes libraries. The app finds music that’s in one library but not others, then transfers files between computers until everything matches. Syncopation is smart, too: it automatically replicates changes to a track’s metadata in one library across your others. You can even set up block lists that keep, for example, your thrash metal out of your significant other’s library. Syncopation is $25 for the full version, but you can download a demo version that works with two computers for 30 days—so if you just want to run one quick sync between two libraries, it’s an excellent free solution. Either way, the Mac OS X-only Syncopation is a great tool, though it’d be great to see a completely freeware alternative.

Download Music Over the Internet and LAN with Mojo

ollie — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:20:12 +0000

Share any song in your iTunes library and download any song from your friends’ iTunes libraries over the internet with freeware application Mojo. Essentially, Mojo makes sharing music with your friends through iTunes wildly simple, from its simple interface to its brilliant implementation. If you’ve ever used apps like ourTunes to download music from shared libraries, you have an idea of what Mojo does, but you should still prepare to be amazed.

Read a full description of the software on lifehacker or you can view an introductory screen cast on the developers site.

Download iTunes shared music over LAN with OurTunes

ollie — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:38:33 +0000

Save files from you networked computers, while listening to an iTunes shared library. You can save your friends – sorry, YOUR – MP3′s and AAC’s across a local network. This program is written in the java language which is cross platform meaning it can run on any computer which has the java runtime installed. Unfortunately the program is still very buggy in OS X, but the developer is trying to fix this.

Tips for making it work better:

Start iTunes just before starting ourTunes.
In OurTunes, select a download directory. This MUST already exist.
Select the shared library you want from within OurTunes.
It’ll say “creating passthrough thread…” and should then give some information about the library you chose.
Back in iTunes, select the second version of the library. This should have just appeared…
Play a song to download it. You can pause to speed it up.
It helps to fully listen to the first song; “speed downloading” often causes iTunes to disconnect from the share which is an inconvenience.

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