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Transferring your iTunes Library
For most users, iTunes does a great job of handling all of the details of managing your media library for you, allowing you to manage your content through iTunes itself and not having to worry too much about the underlying files and folders that make up your iTunes library.
Unfortunately, this user-friendly approach has one serious limitation: When it comes time to move your iTunes library, it can often be a bit of a challenge to figure out exactly what pieces you need to move and how to go about doing this. Many iTunes users start out with a basic iTunes library and use the default settings to store all of their media content on their primary internal hard drive. However, as you add new content over time, particularly with the additional video content now supported by iTunes, you may soon find that your library threatens to take over your computer.
Another common scenario many users find themselves in is what to do when they upgrade to a new computer. Your iTunes library has been working just fine on your old computer, but you're left with the question of how to get it over to the new machine so that everything works the way it's supposed to.
Neither of these situations are at all uncommon, and fortunately it's really not all that difficult to relocate your iTunes library to another hard drive or move it to a whole new computer once you understand the basics of how iTunes manages your media content and the options available to you.
This tutorial is intended for both the average and slightly advanced iTunes user and will provide the necessary information that you need to know about transferring your iTunes library onto an external hard drive, a secondary internal hard drive, or a whole new computer.
How iTunes Manages Media Content
Before we delve into the steps of actually moving your media content, it's important to explain in some detail exactly how iTunes handles the management of your media files under the hood, what your options are for relocating these files, and the various pitfalls that you might encounter in this process.
The first and most important point is that iTunes is designed to handle all of the details of the underlying file system for you. By design, the user manages their content through iTunes, and ideally you never need to even look at the underlying file system, much less worry about moving files around. In this scenario, iTunes can even handle the relocation of your media content for you, making the entire process quite seamless.
This may not match every user's style of media management, but it's very important to understand how this affects the process of moving your media files to a new location.
This means that you cannot simply move your files manually to a new location and expect iTunes to find them after you've moved them, as it will still expect to find those files in their original locations. This one point alone has caused many users a great deal of grief, since repairing this situation can often be a tedious process of either manually adjusting the paths to hundreds of files or manually putting those files back into their original locations so that iTunes can find them again.
Fortunately, if you understand this and use iTunes and its related tools the way they were designed, you can ensure a smooth migration of your iTunes library to an external hard drive or even a completely new computer with minimal problems.
iTunes: The Database versus the Content
Another important point to understand: There are really two components that we are concerned about in this process, and these are somewhat distinct from each other in terms of where and how they are stored.
The iTunes Library Database contains the actual index of your media content. This database itself is a file named "iTunes Library.itl" with several other supporting files stored alongside it. By default this is stored under a sub-folder named "iTunes" in your personal "Music" folder (this is named "My Music" on Windows XP and simply "Music" on Windows Vista/7 and Mac OS X). This path cannot be changed in your iTunes preferences, and in fact could not be easily changed at all prior to iTunes 7. How to change this path is discussed a bit later in this article.
The iTunes Media Folder contains your actual media content. By default this is a sub-folder under the iTunes Library Database folder, but can be changed to any location you prefer via your iTunes Advanced Preferences. Note that prior to iTunes 9, this folder was called the "iTunes Music" folder although despite the name it still just about every other type of media content managed by iTunes as well. In iTunes 9 this was renamed "iTunes Media" to acknowledge that more than just music gets stored here and the subfolder structure was also reorganized accordingly, with Music placed in a subfolder alongside other content types such as Movies, TV Shows and Podcasts. Note that if you've upgraded an existing library from a version of iTunes prior to iTunes 9 this folder will still be called "iTunes Music" and organized the original way unless you've specifically asked iTunes to convert it to the new iTunes Media organization.
Generally, when trying to optimize disk usage, the iTunes Media Folder is what most users will want to move, as it contains the bulk of your library. By comparison, the iTunes Library Database is much smaller and is usually best left in its default location.
Standby to Prepare to Move: Checking your Preferences
Now that you're armed with a basic understanding of how iTunes stores its media content, and knowing that you cannot simply move files around and expect your iTunes library to be able to find these files, it's important to look at how your library is currently setup in order to understand what your options are.
The first step to this process is to review your storage settings under your iTunes Advanced preferences, which can be found by selecting Preferences from the Edit menu (Windows) or iTunes menu (Mac), and then selecting the Advanced tab:
The first option, "iTunes Media folder location" indicates where your iTunes media content is stored by default. Remember that this only includes the media content and not the library database itself. Whether all of your content is located in this folder is going to depend upon the next two settings found on this screen:
Keep iTunes Media folder organized determines whether tracks in your iTunes Media folder are automatically organized based on the track information found within each file. With this option enabled, iTunes will move and rename files within the iTunes Media folder as necessary into sub-folders by media type, with music organized in an ARTIST\ALBUM subfolder structure and each file named by its track name from the iTunes library. If this option is disabled, then files within the iTunes Media folder will be left with whatever name and sub-folder they were placed in when you first imported them, regardless of changes to the tag information within iTunes itself.
Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library determines whether files that you add to your library are automatically copied into the music folder, or left in their original location. When you import new content with this option disabled, iTunes simply "references" the file from wherever you're importing it, rather than making a copy of it in your iTunes Media folder.
Tracks copied into the iTunes Media Folder effectively become "Managed" files; iTunes will manage the location and naming of these files (subject to the "Keep organized" setting above). On the other hand, files that are not copied into the iTunes Media folder are "Referenced" files; iTunes stores a full path to the file, but does not take any further action with those files in terms of organizing, renaming or moving them. In fact, iTunes will not even offer to delete an underlying "referenced" media file when you remove it from your iTunes library. Basically if a file is not in the iTunes Media folder then iTunes considers that file to be outside of its control and does nothing more than point to it.
Note that content purchased from the iTunes Store or ripped from CD is always stored in the iTunes Media folder—iTunes is actually creating new files in this case so it has to have somewhere to put them by default. Therefore, this setting only affects existing files from your computer that are added to the iTunes library using the File, Add to Library option or by dragging-and-dropping them into iTunes from another folder.
So why is all of this important? How you have configured these options is going to determine how much flexibility you have when moving your iTunes media content elsewhere. In a default configuration where all of your media files live within the iTunes Media folder location ("Managed" files), and have been organized by iTunes, the process of moving your library may be considerably smoother than for a user who has a bunch of "referenced" tracks living in various locations and possibly even on different drives.
While iTunes can move your files to a new location in either scenario, the only way to move a library that consists of referenced files is to actually convert them to an entirely managed library in the process. Users who have built their own file-system organization for their media content and want to preserve that layout will find the process of moving their content to be much more challenging without creating a whole new iTunes library and reimporting it.
The New iTunes Media Organization
With iTunes 9, Apple made some changes to how media files are actually organized within iTunes. When iTunes was first released several years ago, music content was pretty much all it supported, and iTunes was designed with this in mind when it came to organizing your content. The top-level set of folders in your iTunes Music folder represented artist names from your music collection, with albums listed beneath each artist, and a few other special folders for things like Compilations.
This was fine back when it was only about the music, but over time new media types gradually appeared in iTunes, including audiobooks, podcasts, movies, TV shows, and now even iOS applications. Despite this, iTunes stubbornly held on to its old style of organization, pigeonholing things like Movies and TV Shows into their own separate folders alongside the artist names for your music. Further, items such as iOS apps and Click Wheel iPod Games were left out of this folder entirely, stored instead within the main iTunes folder, rather than the iTunes Music folder.
As of iTunes 9 non-music content is no longer treated as a second-class citizen in your iTunes library, and media content is now organized in a more balanced fashion. The old terminology of "iTunes Music folder" has been more appropriately replaced with "iTunes Media folder" and when you start a new library iTunes 9 will organize your media content into appropriate top-level folders by media type. Further, the Mobile Applications folder for iOS applications and the iPod Games folder for Click Wheel iPod Games now form part of the iTunes Media folder as well, instead of being stored separately with the iTunes library database.
If you're starting a brand new library with iTunes 9 or later, this will simply be the folder layout that iTunes uses from the start. However, if you're coming from a previous version of iTunes, the old music folder style of organization will be left in place. This is done primarily to preserve backward compatibility, since you may have third-party applications that read your iTunes Music folder and expect to find your tracks organized in a certain way.
Fortunately, you can easily update to the new iTunes 9 Media Folder layout right from within iTunes itself. To do this, simply select File, Library, Organize Library from the iTunes menu, and you'll be presented with a dialog box with the option to either consolidate your files or reorganize your files.
We'll be discussing the "Consolidate Files" option later, but for now you can just upgrade to the media folder organization by simply checking the second option and clicking OK. iTunes will quickly go through your library and move all of your existing files around into the new layout. Note that only managed files that were originally stored in the iTunes Music folder will be moved—anything referenced from outside of the iTunes Music folder will be left where it is. If your "iTunes Music" folder was in the default location under your main iTunes folder, then it will also be renamed to "iTunes Media" in the process. On the other hand, if you had previously set your "iTunes Music" folder to another location the name will remain the same as it was before.
We definitely recommend upgrading to the new iTunes Media folder organization unless you have a very specific reason not to. The new layout will be much easier to work with, and most importantly your Mobile Applications and iPod Games will also be stored in the Media folder, making it even simpler to move and backup these items along with the rest of your iTunes media.
Moving your Content to a New Computer
If you're simply looking to move your iTunes library to an entirely new computer, the process is actually quite a bit simpler than relocating the content, provided certain conditions are met:
- You are moving your iTunes library between two computers using the same operating system and iTunes version; and
- You plan to store the iTunes library database and content in the same relative locations on the new computer
If this is the case, then transferring your iTunes library to a new computer is quite simple: Just copy the entire iTunes folder and all sub-folders from your Music folder on your old computer to the corresponding folder on the new computer.
If you have changed your iTunes Media Folder location from the default, simply make sure you copy that to the corresponding location on the new computer as well. In other words, if you have your iTunes Media folder set to D:\Music then you must copy it to D:\Music on the new computer—remember that iTunes stores the full path to each music file in your library, so your music files must be in the same place on the new computer in order for iTunes to find them.
Note that if you're using referenced files—those stored outside of your iTunes Media folder—you can copy these to the new computer as well; simply ensure that they are copied to the same relative locations on the new computer as they were stored in on the old one so that iTunes will be able to find them.
To actually copy the files between computers you can use any file transfer method you normally would for any other type of data, including an external hard drive or USB memory key, a home network between the two computers, or by burning your iTunes data to CDs or DVDs.
Generally, minor differences in operating system versions will not be an impediment to moving your iTunes library directly over to a new computer, nor will moving to a later version of the same operating system (e.g. Windows XP to Windows Vista or OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Lion). Likewise, you can transfer your library to a computer with a newer version of iTunes than the one on your original computer without any problems—iTunes will simply upgrade the database when you start it up on the new computer.
Note that your iTunes preferences are machine-specific, and you will need to go through and re-configure these the first time you run iTunes after copying your library over to the new computer. You can locate the preference file itself on the original computer and copy this over, however this is not recommended as there are frequently machine-specific settings in these preference files that may not translate properly onto the new computer.
If you have any content purchased from the iTunes Store, you will need to re-authorize the new computer for your iTunes Store account. Computer authorization is machine-specific. You should also make sure you DE-authorize your old computer if you no longer plan to use it with iTunes.
If you plan on putting your iTunes Media folder in a different location on the new computer you will want to read on for the process of relocating the iTunes Media folder itself. Whether you choose to do this before transferring your library to your new computer or afterwards largely depends on your specific situation. For example, if your media folder has been stored on a drive on your original computer that does not exist on the new computer, you will need to consolidate your library before moving it to the new computer. Similarly, if you plan to keep your iTunes library on an external hard drive, it makes more sense to consolidate the media folder onto that external drive from your original computer and then just copy the iTunes library database over to the new machine and let it pick up the media from the external drive.
Moving your iTunes library to a different operating system is also possible, and we will discuss that later on this article.
Moving Your Content to a New Hard Drive: The Wrong Way
A very common mistake made by many users is to simply try and move their entire iTunes Media folder to a new location and update the iTunes Media folder path in iTunes' preferences. In some cases this may work, but in reality you will risk iTunes losing track of some or all of your media files in the process.
The reason for this is that iTunes stores the entire full path to each music file in its library database. If you move that file somewhere else, then iTunes won't be able to find it, and the result will be a broken link to that file, shown as an exclamation mark in iTunes immediately to the left of the track listing:
If you try to select a track with a broken link, iTunes will notify you that it cannot find the file, and provide an opportunity to locate it yourself:
Selecting "Locate" will allow you to browse for the file, and iTunes will link the current entry to that specific file. This can be a viable solution for a few broken links, but you can imagine that this could become very tedious if you had hundreds or even thousands of files in this state.
Should you find yourself in this situation, the simplest solution is usually just to move your iTunes Media folder back to its original location. iTunes still has the complete path to each file in its database, so if you put the actual files back, it should have no problem finding them again.
Users who have a completely "Managed" library configuration may be able to get away with simply moving their media folder and updating the path, however it is still not the recommended solution unless you are absolutely certain that your library is fully managed and organized in the way that iTunes expects it to be. The reason this method will work in a fully managed library is because iTunes will look for any missing tracks in their default location under the iTunes Media folder path before deciding that the links are broken. So, if your tracks are organized in the way that iTunes expects to see them, then it will be able to find them in the new location. However the problem is that it is not uncommon for users with large libraries to have a few referenced files or files with non-standard names due to changes to iTunes preference settings or even inconsistent behaviour with older versions of iTunes.
The "Consolidate Library" feature, discussed in the next section, will ensure that your library is fully managed and organized the way iTunes expects, but if you're going to use this option anyway, you might as well let iTunes copy the files to the new location in the process and save yourself a step.
Consolidate: The Right Way
So, knowing that these pitfalls exist, what's the best way? Remember that iTunes' philosophy of managing your media is actually to insulate you from having to worry about the underlying file system. On the basis of this approach, it makes sense that it should provide the necessary tools itself to facilitate moving your library to a new location.
So in other words, rather than messing around copying/moving files through Finder or Windows Explorer, why not let iTunes deal with this for you? This is handled in iTunes through the Consolidate files option, found under File, Library, Organize Library in iTunes.
What the Consolidate files option actually does it to gather all of the files listed in your iTunes library into the iTunes Media folder. It does this by copying any referenced files into the iTunes Media folder, renaming them with the proper track name, and organizing them into its standard file and folder structure. This option is at least partly intended to allow you to bring "referenced" files into the iTunes Media folder from various other locations in the event that you may have added them to your library with the "Copy Files" option disabled.
However the only real distinction between a file that is "managed" and a file that is "referenced" is the actual iTunes Media folder path. Files in this folder are considered "managed" files and anything outside is a "referenced" file. So, if you change the location of the iTunes Media folder to a new path and then use the Consolidate files option, iTunes will happily copy all of these files into your new location, updating all of the file location information in the iTunes database in the process.
Performing the Move
To actually perform the move, start by going into your iTunes Advanced Preferences, and changing the iTunes Media folder path to whatever new location you want your iTunes media files to be stored in. This will usually be an external hard drive, but it can be any valid path, including a secondary hard drive or even a network share:
Once you have updated the iTunes Media folder location, simply select File, Library, Organize Library… (in iTunes 8, this option was "Consolidate Library" and in iTunes 7 and prior, it was located on the "Advanced" menu):
You will be presented with a dialog box with the option to consolidate files or reorganize them. Select "Consolidate files" and click OK.
iTunes will begin the process of copying the files into their proper locations and updating these locations in the iTunes library database. Note that this process copies the tracks to the new location rather than moving them. Although the original tracks still exist, the iTunes library database is updated with the new location for each track, which makes the process difficult to undo unless you have kept a backup of your library database from prior to the consolidation. Making such a backup is certainly an option, although not normally required.
The other important note is that this will reorganize your entire library file system into iTunes' default way of laying it out (e.g. ARTIST\ALBUM\TRACK.MP3 in the case of music files). This may not be a desirable option for those who have their media file system laid out in their own organizational structure, or who use other third-party applications that expect media files to be organized a certain way. Unfortunately, if you're in this situation, there really is no easy way to move your iTunes media content to a new location without creating a whole new iTunes library and reimporting all of your tracks into the new library from their new locations.
Confirming and Cleaning Up
Once this process has completed, you should be able to confirm that the files have been copied to the new location and that iTunes is referencing them properly from there simply by selecting a track and choosing File, Get Info. The "Summary" tab for the file properties will indicate the physical location of that track, which should reflect the new iTunes Media folder path.
Since iTunes copies the media content rather than moving it, you will likely also want to delete your iTunes media files from their original locations to free up space.
Remember that this process only moves the iTunes content however. Your iTunes library database will still be located in its original location, likely on your primary hard drive in your Music folder, as described earlier. So while you can clean out the "iTunes Media" sub-folder from here once you've consolidated your library to another location, you should not touch any of the other files or folders in your main iTunes folder.
Moving the Library Database
If you're simply interested in moving your files to a larger disk, there's seldom any reason to worry about moving the library database, as it doesn't normally take up a lot of storage space, and there are advantages to leaving this file on your local hard drive and simply storing the content on an external drive.
That having been said, if you do want to move the library database to another location, this is certainly possible as well as long as you're using iTunes 7 or later. This must be done separately from the process of moving the content described above, and you're best to move the content first and then relocate the library database once you've confirmed that everything is still working properly.
To do this, shut down iTunes, and copy your "iTunes" folder (under your "Music" or "My Music" folder) to the new location. Keep in mind that you may still have media content located in an "iTunes Media" sub-folder and you probably don't want to waste time copying this content over if you've already consolidated it to another location, so you may want to exclude that one sub-folder.
Once you have copied the "iTunes" folder, including the "iTunes Library.itl" and all related support files and folders, simply restart iTunes while holding down the SHIFT key (Windows) or OPT key (Mac) and you will be prompted to either create a new library or choose a location for an existing library:
Simply click "Choose Library" and browse for the location where you copied the iTunes folder. iTunes will startup using that particular library database instead of the one from the original location. Once you have set this location iTunes will continue to use it unless you change it again using the same method.
Moving the iTunes library database onto an external hard drive can be useful if you plan to move the external hard drive between multiple computers. It can also be useful to store it in a common area on a local computer for access by multiple user profiles, or even on a network share.
One word of caution, however: The iTunes database is not designed for multi-user access. If you decide to place it on a network share or in a common directory on a standalone workstation, always make sure that you do not have more than one copy of iTunes running against it at a time, otherwise you will risk corrupting your iTunes database.
Moving Between Operating Systems
Although the iTunes database format is the same for both the Windows and Mac OS X versions of iTunes, moving your iTunes library from Windows to Mac OS X or vice-versa is complicated by one other issue: The file systems between these two operating systems are completely different; even though iTunes will be able to read the library database from the other operating system, it will not be able to make much sense of the paths stored there. For example, where Windows uses drive letters, Mac OS X uses drive names, so there's no way for Mac OS X to figure out what to do with a path like "D:\Music."
However, the good news is that since iTunes will default to looking for any missing files in its normal iTunes Media folder, you can leverage this behaviour when migrating your library to a different operating system.
To make this work, you must first ensure that iTunes has organized all of the files according to its default naming standard. This way when you move the files onto the new operating system iTunes will be able to find them in their default locations.
To do this, first visit your iTunes Advanced preferences.
If the Keep iTunes Media folder organized option is enabled, deselect it and click OK. Then, go back into your Advanced preferences and RE-select this option and again click OK.
This will tell iTunes to go through your iTunes Media folder and ensure that all music files are named according to its defaults. You will be shown a progress indicator while this is happening.
Once this has completed, perform a "Consolidate files" operation, as described earlier to bring in any referenced tracks that may exist outside of your iTunes Media folder.
Following these steps, your iTunes Media folder should be properly organized with all of your files in the default locations that iTunes expects to find them. You can then simply copy your entire iTunes folder and iTunes Media folder over to the new computer and operating system in the same way that you would transfer any other set of files. When iTunes starts, it won't be able to find the music files by their specific location, but it will automatically and transparently "fall back" to looking in the default location where it would expect those files to be—in the iTunes Media folder. iTunes does this in the background transparently so you won't even notice it happening—things should just work.
Dealing with a Referenced Library
Another option of course is to simply start a new iTunes library from your existing media content. In this case, you would start up iTunes with a new database and re-import everything. Of course, this will not retain any playlists, ratings, play counts or other library metadata—you will in essence be starting over from scratch. You will also need to reload the content onto any iPod, iPhone or Apple TV devices you may be syncing, since these will also see the new library and require you to perform an "Erase and Sync" operation.
Starting a whole new library will likely be your best option if you have a primarily referenced media collection scattered through folders outside of iTunes' own music folder and you want to preserve this file system organization. In this case you can simply move your media content to the new location, and then start a new library and import it with the Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library option turned OFF, in much the same way you would have when you first imported your content to your original iTunes library.
More advanced users may be able to work around this as well by using symbolic links (OS X) or NTFS Junctions (Windows) to effectively relocate parts of the file system. This process basically involves copying the media files to a larger hard drive and then creating links in the file system to point to those new locations. iTunes continues to see the files as if they were in the same place as they have always been, while the operating system actually accesses them from the new location. Symbolic links and NTFS junctions are advanced operating system features that are beyond the scope of this article and setting this up should only be attempted by those users comfortable working in the file system with command-line tools.
Using an External Hard Drive and a Portable Computer
Once you have consolidated your library content onto an external hard drive, iTunes will continue to use that location for any newly imported or downloaded content, subject to your iTunes preference settings.
However, this creates an additional consideration for users of portable computers, since the external hard drive may not always be available. Fortunately, iTunes actually works around this quite well, so there's no need to pack up the external hard drive when going out with your laptop.
Basically, when you start iTunes with your external drive disconnected, the iTunes Media folder path will temporarily revert to its default location on your local hard drive. This allows iTunes to run properly, although obviously you will not have access to any of the content that's not already in that location. You will see broken links to any files that you try to access since the external hard drive is not present. No need to worry though as this will correct itself once the drive is available again.
However, this does allow you to download new content (e.g. import CDs, add files to your library, download podcast episodes, purchase content from the iTunes Store, etc). This new content will be saved in your local iTunes Media folder, and will be usable from there.
You can even sync your iPod or iOS device to your library in this state. Unavailable tracks (those with the exclamation marks beside them) will remain on the device since they are still listed in the library. You obviously won't be able to add content to your device that isn't already there, but you could certainly sync any new content you've added while disconnected since those files exist on your laptop computer. Further, even ratings and playcounts will be updated in the iTunes library during an automatic sync.
This can be a useful way to import a few tracks off a new CD when you're away from home and get them loaded onto your iPod without having to wait until you get home or having to resort to switching your iPod to manual mode.
Once you do return back home and plug the external hard drive back in, you simply need to restart iTunes and it will detect that its proper iTunes Media folder has returned, and go back to using that. Any content you've downloaded or imported while you were away from your main library storage can be transferred over simply by running the Consolidate files option to copy those files over.
The way that iTunes handles this provides a very effective way to maintain a large iTunes library that is somewhat usable on the go without having to keep it all on your laptop's internal hard drive. You can even keep a copy of your favorite tracks in your local iTunes Media folder for use while you're away from your external hard drive; iTunes will seamlessly switch between using whichever set of media files are available.
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I moved my 500GB library to a new hard drive recently using the "Consolidate library" option, and it worked flawlessly. It only took five hours.
Posted by Galley in Toronto on December 4, 2008 at 8:02 PM (CST)
"Note: In some cases, automatically downloaded artwork may not appear properly when moving your iTunes library from Windows to Mac OS X or vice-versa. This issue should only affect automatically downloaded artwork, and can be easily resolved simply by asking iTunes to get the artwork again."
Your note gives false hope; this actually applies in *all* cases when you move the library database even between to OS X computers, and also if an iTunes library is restored from a backup (which seems to defeat some of the purpose of making a backup in the first place). All artwork downloaded from the iTunes store will be lost for the music files, even though the .itc files are still present in the proper Album Artwork folder location.
It is really not all that "easy" to just download again the artwork when your personal song files are tagged correctly and the iTunes Store files are not, and you multiply it times 1000+ music files.
Posted by consumer in Toronto on December 5, 2008 at 1:09 PM (CST)
I followed all these steps, let it go overnight and when I got home from work the next day I got this message: "Copying music failed. Disc could not be read from or written to."
What gives? Somebody please help me.
Posted by Angry in Toronto on December 6, 2008 at 12:28 AM (CST)
I moved my library without any problem and it seems to work great. Except when I try to download any new podcasts or Videos I get a message saying there is a network error and the data is lost. Music seems to work fine. Any help would be appreciated
Posted by Bob in Toronto on December 6, 2008 at 8:05 AM (CST)
#2: While I agree that the behaviour is inconsistent, from my own personal testing I cannot say that this is always the case, at least not since about iTunes 7.4 (previous versions had some serious artwork-related issues in general). I have successfully moved my iTunes library between computers for testing on various versions of iTunes, and have only had problems with the artwork not being recognized about 50% of the time. Note as well that I have *never* had a problem with the artwork not showing up when moving between two computers running the same OS and version (ie, Leopard to Leopard, or Windows XP to Windows XP).
If you are experiencing this problem, there may be some underlying issue with your iTunes library database itself.
On the other hand, you are correct that restoring from a backup made via iTunes' "Back up to Disc" function will break the links to the artwork, since in this case iTunes is essentially creating a whole new database with new track IDs that do not correspond to the album artwork index.
Note that for Mac users, there are Applescripts available that will embed your artwork within the MP3/AAC files themselves. As you've noted, retagging your iTunes Store purchases will make it difficult for iTunes to find your album artwork, so using a script to embed the artwork is probably the best solution in this case.
#3: Unfortunately, this is most likely a problem with the files on your computer itself, or your disk. I'd suggest running Scandisk or a similar disk repair utility to make sure you're not having any other underlying problems. If you're copying to a network location or an external hard disk, it's also possible that your computer simply lost its connection to the network or external drive.
Posted by Jesse Hollington in Toronto on December 6, 2008 at 2:52 PM (CST)
My computer has problems, I will have to restore the it back to its original settings which I assume will delete my iTunes library .
Is there a way to take the music from my Ipod and reload it into the same computer?
Posted by michelle in Toronto on December 6, 2008 at 6:03 PM (CST)
Hi I was wondering if someone could help me. My old computer is completely busted and I got a new laptop, I've been trying to put my itunes library onto this but it wont let me. it says I need to get my old computer and set the options to manually manage music and files. my old computer was a window xp and this one is a vista. please someone help me
Posted by Beloved in Toronto on December 6, 2008 at 10:15 PM (CST)
Hi I have had to wipe my comp due to a virus and therefore my itunes library doesnt exist now. But i have the songs on my ipod but now ive downloaded itunes again. it says i cant sync my ipod or all the contents of it will be erased. How can I sync my ipod to my new library without wiping the songs off my ipod. Any help would be appreciated .
Posted by James Bulkeley in Toronto on December 7, 2008 at 3:11 PM (CST)
Thanks so much for this wealth of knowledge.
I have a slightly different scenario: my PC died a few weeks back but my repair guy was able to retrieve my entire "My Documents" folder from my ailing HD, which includes most- if not all- my 4000+ songs, iTunes Library DB & iTunes Music Folder.
All of these files now exist intact on an external drive.
I understand XML on a professional level, as well absolute pathing.
I also still have everything on my 80GB iPod Classic.
My questions are:
1. When the new PC arrives, can I copy over the iTunes Music from the External Drive, including the iTunes Library DB & iTunes Music Folder, so long as I make sure everything points to the correct location? I understand the time involved.
2. When I download the latest version of iTunes for my new PC, will authorizing the new pC cause issues with my previous purchases during this switch?
Posted by Chad Austin in Toronto on December 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM (CST)
I'm having a strange issue. I just bought an external drive, and followed the instructions on moving the library to the new drive. After 2 1/2 hours, iTunes completed copying. Yet, in comparing the old and new folders, there seems to be over 4,000 items that didn't transfer! I have almost 24,000 files in the original folder, yet the new one only has 19,000! Any ideas on how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated:)
Posted by Kwasi in Toronto on December 10, 2008 at 3:59 PM (CST)
I want to download my library to my first generation ipod because I have added new music. I have done this in the past several times with no problem. However, when I connect my ipod to my computer my ipod screen shows the do not disconn ect Icon and my computer brings up the itunes screen with"Set up your I Pod" and "Name Rod Kaisler's I Pod" followed with a checked box that says "Automatically sync songs to my I pod" Then nothing more happens. I have reset my ipod and have uninstalled itunes and re installed it but still cannot download my library. Can you help
Posted by Rod Kaiser in Toronto on December 11, 2008 at 2:45 PM (CST)
OK, so I have a slightly different issue that I've been trying to resolve lately.
My library (and music files) are stored on my Time Capsule. Up until recently this was working just fine (not sure if problems started with 8.0.x or what). I could open the library on my laptop or on my G5 tower and import tracks into it just fine.
Where problems came up was when switching back to a local library. Then the iTunes preference got saved locally for the Music Folder. When opening the networked library, new tracks would then be added locally.
To set it back, I would change the Music folder under "Preferences" back to where it was before. It would spend a few minutes updating the DB, and asked if I wanted to consolidate my files to the new location. I would click "no", as the files were already there (the local library on the G5 was a backup copy of the networked one).
However, lately, for some reason, it has hardcoded into itself the paths for the files on the G5's local library, and despite changing the Music directory in the preferences, it refuses to change the paths in the library file (as observed by scanning the XML copy).
I tried the "re-import damaged library" option after fixing the paths in the XML, but it took forever and didn't quite yield a fully good copy. I also tried setting the directory somewhere else, and then back to the networked drive again, but it's still stuck on the local files…
Has anybody ever successfully wiggled their way out of this situation before?
Posted by Peter Norby in Toronto on December 13, 2008 at 2:55 AM (CST)
I just wanted to say "thank you"!!
I had moved my library on my own (stupid) and was in big trouble… till I read your article here and it solved all my iTunes nightmares. I'm not running on my external harddrive with no problems. Thanks again.
Posted by Jason Drumm in Toronto on December 15, 2008 at 6:45 AM (CST)
I also have a particular variation on the described scenarios. My iTunes dbase is on the C-drive of my Windows desktop machine, while the content is on a NAS, mapped as Z-drive.
Now I have a brand new MacBook, that I would like to use to manage my music.
What I want to do is move the iTunes dbase from my windows box to my MacBook, while keeping all of the music content on the NAS. I am sure that the required steps are all in this article, but I am just not sure in which order to execute them.
Is anybody able to help?
(I could of course start a new library on my MacBook, but I would like to keep all of the existing meta-data)
Posted by Alberto in Toronto on December 15, 2008 at 7:01 AM (CST)
I would like to move selected playlists from one MAC to another. I don't want to move my entire library and the playlists that I do wish to move are too large for burning to a CD. What is the best way to do this?
Posted by Jeff in Toronto on December 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM (CST)
I had to part with a computer that my girl and I shared due to circumstances beyond our control. I should probably note that we were running iTunes for Windows XP. Problem is that I had a 2500 song high bit rate itunes library on that computer. So I simply copied the entire music folder to an external hard drive for future use on a new Sony AW110J Laptop. I thought for sure I would be able to figure out how to get the Library back with all the ratings and playlists intact. My first attempt was a success. When I got the new computer I downloaded Itunes 8 and then I copied the entire folder from my external back to the 'Music' folder and it worked. For a couple of days. Then one day I open iTunes and everything is gone. I have no idea why. I repeat the process. iTunes works again and everthing seems fine. Sony's content analyzer turns on and the next time I use iTunes the library is blank again!!! What the heck?? So I deleted the Itunes folder and re copied everything back into it. It works agian for awhile. I stop the Vaio Content Analyzer, changed settings so it wouldn't mess with itunes, and everything seemed good. Until I tried to install the digital copy of 'The Dark Knight' as soon as I finished and opened my iTunes. Presto change-o rearrange-o my iTunes library was gone again. Can anyone help me??? I'm so frustrated at this point I'm not sure what to do. This is absolutely driving me bonkers…... Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Posted by Jerry in Toronto on December 16, 2008 at 3:10 PM (CST)
I'm having the same issue as Kwasi (#10). 37 items (folders?) are missing on the new drive after the "consolidation". This amounts to nearly a GB of missing files. I've managed to find a song or two, through iTunes, that wasn't brought over to the new drive. Though, low and behold, they are in the file I've attempted to move.
I've done the entire thing twice now and no luck. Same thing each time. What could be going on? This music folder is 100GB. How am I going be sure what files are actually consolidating before I delete them from the old drive? I've wasted hours this evening trying to handle this. When I don't consolidate, I run into the occasional missing file and when I do consolidate I get the same.
BTW… my iTunes music folder is very well managed. Everything is where it's supposed to be.
Posted by El Jefe in Toronto on December 17, 2008 at 6:36 AM (CST)
Hi! I consolidated my library but it didnt consolidate the cd that I ripped. I woudnt want to rip it agian when I switch to another computer. What did I do wrong?
Posted by NK47 in Toronto on December 18, 2008 at 5:00 AM (CST)
OK I have been reading all sorts of material in the internet for over an hour and I cannot find anything to tell me how to use a simple series of steps to get the second copy of every song on my play list to go away. Cilcing and erasing every other listed song/duplicates would take me days! I'm not techie and hops someone out ther wos is can solve this dilemma.
The most annoying thing is that each song plays twice as I listen to my music…
Posted by Gary in Toronto on December 18, 2008 at 9:23 AM (CST)
What a great, super thorough article!! Thanks!
My question is quick and simple—
I like organizing my ITunes library using Date Added (because I like listening to my recently downloaded music most).... Will this method (consolidation + moving music and library database) be able to retain the original date added to my I-tunes?
What information does the library database
hold anyway?
-If this matters, I'm switching from PC to Mac.
Posted by Vix in Toronto on December 18, 2008 at 11:59 PM (CST)
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Theatre Arts students, faculty earn honors for 'Oklahoma!'
Liberty University's Theatre Arts Department has announced that three students have earned the Irene Ryan nominations and two faculty members have received merit awards of excellence from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) for their work in Oklahoma!, the first show of Liberty's fall 2011 mainstage theater season.
In all, 13 Liberty students have received nominations this year (see list below), making them eligible for a regional competition in Florida in February where they will have a chance to win scholarships.
"The Irene Ryan is a collegiate version of being nominated for the Tony Award — it's a huge honor," said Linda Nell Cooper, department chair.
The nominations are named for the late acclaimed actress Irene Ryan, best known for playing 'Granny Clampett' in The Beverly Hillbillies. The KCACTF is a national theater program that involves more than 600 institutions throughout the United States with a goal of improving the quality of college theater. KCACTF sends respondents to assess shows at participating colleges and nominate students who have shown exceptional, professional work.
"The KCACTF is different from other competitions because it really encourages the feeling of 'esprit de corps' amongst all the colleges and universities, not a feeling of competition," Cooper said. "Our goal as educators is to encourage and send the best talent from each university out into the professional world, so Irene Ryan is a way to acknowledge that."
The KCACTF also acknowledges the work of faculty within the program. Cooper, who serves as a KCACTF respondent, was recognized for directing Oklahoma!. Tyson Long, technical director for the Department of Theatre Arts, was recognized for his design work in the show.
"Faculty merits are a way for the KCACTF to validate the faculty with the excellence they are doing," Cooper said. "They are saying we are doing what we need to do to create young professionals. It's really an encouragement for us to continue in our craft the way we do it."
Liberty will have a chance for more recognitions in its following two shows of the year. Little Shop of Horrors opens Oct. 28 and Romeo and Juliet opens Dec. 2. For show times and ticket information, click here.
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Will Viriato as Ali Hakim in Oklahoma!
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Quagmire is a sex fiend (and sex offender) who is generally unsuccessful and shamelessly desperate in his attempts to indiscriminately pick up anything with the right kind of orifice, despite his affluence and occupational prestige as an airline pilot. He's closer to George Sodini than James Bond.
A fairer contrast can be made by considering a couple of characters from Mike Judge's King of the Hill series. Hank Hill is the quintessential football coach-type Real Man. He follows his instincts instead of going along to get along, tries to learn from his mistakes with humility and come to terms with the consequences of his personal failings, loves his lawn and his dog, and naturally fits into the traditional patriarchal role of the monogamous married man. While he doesn't seek out confrontation, he's not hesitant to put on the knucks when honor, duty, or rectitude requires it ("I'm gonna kick your ass!"). He encourages Bobby to become the same kind of Real Man he is, but accepts his son for who he is.
Boomhauer is the PUA's Real Man**. Despite apparently being out of work*, he perpetually jumps from one short-term relationship to another with relatively desirable women. He clearly has a healthy libido, but he's not a pervert like Quagmire. He's the show's most cultured character, a skilled mechanic, surfer, and artist. While he has no desire to burden himself with other people's problems, he is personally responsible. He refuses to encourage Dale's asinine antics or Bill's moping sissiness, treating both men with disdainful aloofness.
* In the series finale he is revealed to be a Texas Ranger, but given the inordinate amount of downtime he was portrayed as having throughout the life of the show, it's not very satisfying.
** An argument can be made that Hank's father, Cotton, is an even better pick than Boomhauer. With a penchant for stretching the truth to its limits so as to portray himself in the best light possible, he is uncompromisingly self-assured. He had at least one extramarital affair resulting in the birth of Hank's half-brother. Despite being a crippled, beady-eyed misogynist, when age starts to take its toll on his first wife's appearance, Cotton leaves her for a hottie who is the same age as his son, Hank, is. He's an animated John McCain.


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Feds Wait Until Late Friday To Admit That, Yeah, They Ignored The 4th Amendment
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The head of the U.S. government's vast spying apparatus has conceded that recent surveillance efforts on at least one occasion violated the Constitutional prohibitions on unlawful search and seizure.The letter is embedded below. There are two key admissions in there that are new:
The admission comes in a letter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassifying statements that a top U.S. Senator wished to make public in order to call attention to the government's 2008 expansion of its key surveillance law.
- It is also true that on at least one occasion the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held that some collection carried out pursuant to the Section 702 minimization procedures used by the government was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Freshman Thomas Norris (Cincinnati, Ohio) was named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's Swimmer of the Week on Monday afternoon following his impressive performances at the MIT Winter Invitational this past weekend.
On the first day of the meet, Norris came second in the 500 yard freestyle in 4:32.42 and he went on to win the 200 yard freestyle the next day in 1:40.68, earning NCAA B cuts and best times in both events. He touched second in the 200 yard butterfly on Saturday evening with a time of 1:50.09, getting the A cut by a third of a second.
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The Payment System: Design, Management, and Supervision
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Published December 1, 1994 | December 1994 issue
Edited by Bruce J. Summers
Published by the International Monetary Fund
214 pages
While issues relating to prices (usually skyrocketing), labor (strikes and strife), and supply (shortages and more shortages) get the big headlines in the economics stories about the former states of the Soviet Union, there is an underlying issue that is equally important, though perhaps less flashy: the need for a stable and secure system of making payments. As Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman, notes in the forward to this "how-to" book: An efficient payment system is essential to the financial infrastructure of an economy, and the development of that financial infrastructure is a top priority for formerly socialist countries moving to a market system.
It is the central bankers of those newly formed market economies to whom this book is primarily addressed. Published in both Russian and English, The Payment System is based on lectures prepared for a 1992 training program for central bankers from the states of the former Soviet Union. The Federal Reserve was one of the sponsors of the program, and Bruce Summers, the editor of this book, was then serving as the Fed's deputy director in the Division of Reserve Bank Operations and Payment Systems, and is now senior vice president and chief financial officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
But just because this slim volume was produced with East European central bank "rookies" in mind, doesn't mean there aren't lessons for other readers. The Payment System provides valuable insights for anyone interested in understanding the underpinnings of the payment system in free market economies. The proverbial blank sheet of paper that exists in the former Soviet Union provides a good backdrop to analyze the developed payments systems of the world, and to consider which characteristics and processes make the most sense and which are in place out of historical convenience. The seven general principles illustrated by Summers in his opening essay bear wisdom for both new and established central banks:
The first principle says that a payment system that relies on fiat money must have price stability. (Fiat money is currency that is not redeemable for a specific amount of a commodity, such as gold or silver.) The second principle holds that a nation's monetary regime plays a major part in designing the payments system; three through five involve technological and legal issues; the sixth general principle states that a payments system has "public good" characteristics that require oversight and supervision. Finally, because it does not pose credit or liquidity risks, "it is universally accepted that final interbank settlement is best accomplished by the transfer of balances held in accounts with the central bank."
By the nature of the subject matter, some of the articles are more technical than others, including discussions of legal issues, settlement systems among banks, and policy and technological choices faced by policymakers who must implement a new large value payment system. But even the most technical articles are of value to non-expert readers with an interest in this subject. In Payment System Risk and Risk Management, the authors provide an excellent primer on the types of risk inherent in large dollar payment systems and the various remedies that have been employed to manage those risks. The article makes the connection between the risks associated with individual transactions (credit and liquidity risks) and the broad-based systemic risks.
The relationship between cash, check and low-dollar electronic payments is described in "Small-Value Transfer Systems." This article lists the differences between the U.S. checking system and the European giro and Eurocheque. The authors stress that a market economy needs an efficient and versatile small-value payment system to fully meet the needs of all market participants.
The book also includes two articles on the role of the central bank as a regulator and participant in the payments system. In one of these articles, Jeffrey C. Marquardt, assistant director in the Division of Reserve Bank Operations and Payment Systems at the Federal Reserve Board, sums up the payment system's importance in an economy: "Financial markets and payment systems are mutually dependent upon one another in a monetary economy, and settlement practices in markets, and in some cases trading practices, depend directly on the design and operation of payment systems. Thus, payment system designs and operations must take into account the needs of financial markets and end users of the payment system in order to create the conditions for an efficient financial system and economy generally."


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Argentina's Indomitable Deity
Soccer Legend Maradona Transcended Addiction, Obesity and Lost Fortunes to Reach His Dream: Coach of the National Team
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, March 28, 2009; A06
Jan. 18, 2000
In 2000, Maradona went to Cuba to receive treatment for his cocaine habit, two weeks after he was admitted to a Uruguayan private clinic after collapsing due to a drug overdose. Here, he and his wife ,Claudia Villafane, enter the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana shortly after their arrival in the Cuban capital.
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BUENOS AIRES -- When Lionel Messi, the man many consider the best soccer player in the world, arrived at the Argentine national team's practice facility Thursday, the commotion was considerable. Fans gathered outside the gated complex and surrounded his silver SUV in a jubilant mass, snapping photographs and begging for autographs.
Then a few minutes later, Diego Maradona pulled up in a black Mini Cooper. The short 48-year-old had graying stubble, tattooed forearms and a thick waist. Grown men emitted high, soft noises that expressed an emotion somewhere between reverie and helplessness. Journalists ran unabashed toward the driver. A man barked at the security guards who tried to pry him loose from the windshield. "Thank you, Diego," one man repeated. "Thank you."
No matter how talented or exciting Argentina's soccer players are this year, the story of this season has been indisputably about one man: Maradona, the nation's living legend and soccer god, who has assumed responsibility as the coach of the storied national team. His presence on the sidelines in many ways is as remarkable as any of his feats on the field, where he led Argentina to the 1986 World Cup championship and won, along with Brazilian star Pelé, the award for best player of the 20th century.
That's because Maradona is a former cocaine addict who was kicked out of the 1994 World Cup for doping, had his stomach stapled to battle obesity and suffered a life-threatening heart attack, is an outspoken admirer of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, once shot an air rifle at reporters and is a man whom polls showed a majority of Argentines did not want to coach their national team.
"I am in a place that a year ago, I didn't believe I would be in," Maradona told reporters Thursday.
But even this comeback is typical Maradona, who has called coaching the national team a lifelong dream.
"Maradona always rises from the ashes like a phoenix," said Julio Chiappetta, a sportswriter for Argentina's Clarin newspaper. "He's always had this ability. When everything has been lost, when no solution is at hand, Maradona, with his inner strength -- so great, so energetic, so vigorous -- he comes out on top once again."
Maradona faces his first big test as coach Saturday, when Argentina plays Venezuela in a World Cup 2010 qualifying match here. In two earlier exhibition matches, Maradona led Argentina to victory over Scotland and France. The wins have fueled enthusiasm for the team, but many acknowledge it is too early to judge Maradona's coaching abilities. His brief tenure in two previous coaching jobs in the mid-1990s with Argentine professional teams was undistinguished.
And he has now encountered his first real controversy: One of the team's stars, Juan Román Riquelme, abruptly resigned this month and said differences with Maradona made it impossible for the two to work together. Even Pelé has gotten in a shot. "A great player is not always a good coach," he said.
Many of the Argentine players, however, seem thrilled to be playing under a legend.
"He was the greatest in the world," Javier Zanetti, a veteran national team player, said at the practice facility Thursday. "And today for him to be coach, it's a very beautiful thing for us."
As with any soccer-loving nation, the Argentines grieve defeats of their national team as if they were deaths in the family. This pain, plus Maradona's volatile off-the-field career, has left many fans wary of falling too quickly for their new leader.
Gustavo Otero, 41, an engineer who watched Argentina defeat France last month inside a popular Buenos Aires sports bar, said he did not want to get disillusioned. "These are our first steps with Maradona," he said. "We need to wait and be cautious. We are not champions yet. We have a very long road."
Otero is willing to forgive Maradona's past indiscretions now that the legend appears more grounded, mature and healthy.
"Despite everything, he demonstrated that he can fight, that he can continue forward. I think this gives a lot of hope to children with problems, that you can continue and fight and win," Otero said.
Diego Armando Maradona grew up in Villa Fiorito, a slum on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Even as a child he was a soccer prodigy, and he made his professional debut in Argentina's First Division just before his 16th birthday.
Among other teams, he played for Barcelona in Spain, Napoli in Italy and with the national team in four World Cups. His two goals against England in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, one with a hand-ball foul that wasn't called and now is known as the "Hand of God" goal, and a half-field weaving sprint through a stunned English defense are two of the most famous ever scored.
His place in the soccer pantheon is unchallenged, and his highlights are played on Argentine television as if they happened the night before. But there is an obsession for Maradona in his homeland that goes well beyond normal fanhood toward actual worship. He is the patron saint of the Church of Maradona, which claims more than 100,000 members. "Our Diego, who art on earth, hallowed be thy left hand," their prayer begins, and members are baptized by punching a soccer ball to re-create the Hand of God goal.
Maradona has never been an easy god to worship. Over the years, he has lost fortunes, gone into debt and regained millions. He has criticized the pope. He said that he began using drugs while playing for Barcelona. In the early 1990s, he failed a drug test for cocaine and was suspended for 15 months, and he has done stints in rehab for drug and alcohol abuse.
"The people have to understand that Maradona is not a machine for giving happiness," Maradona wrote in his autobiography, "I am Diego of the People."
Taxi driver Roberto Mahmud, 55, agrees completely.
"I am anti-Maradona," he said. "Everything that is abnormal and depraved, he has done. The drugs, the alcohol, the women, the lack of respect for anyone. He's lost millions of dollars. He's friends with Fidel Castro. If I did the things he's done, I'd be in jail."
Before being named national team coach last year, Maradona was playing five-man soccer with other former stars on a mini-field and hosting a television talk show. He has lately lost weight, has been speaking more diplomatically and recently became a grandfather. Maradona says he's living drug-free.
Now, as before, every move makes headlines. Some fans argue that Maradona is a sideshow that distracts too much attention from the players, but others say the spotlight on him alleviates some of the pressure they face.
"It's something that we enjoy very much," said midfielder Jonás Gutiérrez. "Just the fact that we are able to take a photo or have an autograph, so we also can hold onto this memory."
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NEW LONDON, N.H. – The awards haul continues for the MIT women's volleyball team with a pair of announcements from the New England Women's Volleyball Association (NEWVA) on Thursday. Senior Kristine Bunker (Falmouth, Mass.) secured a spot on the All-New England second team while being joined by classmate Tatiana Berger (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) as selections for the NEWVA Senior Classic.
Bunker was recognized by NEWVA for the first time in her career as the Engineers received accolades for the second straight season. During the past two weeks, she was tabbed for NEWMAC All-Conference first team, AVCA New England All-Region and All-America honorable mention plaudits.
Berger, a NEWMAC All-Conference second-team pick, finished the season ranking fifth in the league in kills (323) and sixth in kills per set (3.02). During her four-year career, she tallied 788 kills, 461 digs, 91 blocks, and 90 aces.
The NEWVA Senior Classic, comprised of New England's top 32 Division III senior volleyball players, will be held on Sunday, Dec. 8 at UMass Boston. The event will feature a skills competition prior to the afternoon's all-star match.


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March 3, 2011 - The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) adopted an amendment to the notice of intent for the 2011-12 Hunting Seasons Rules and Regulations at their March 3 meeting.
The amendment would increase the special youth deer hunt on private lands for the 2011-12 season from two to seven days. In addition, it would amend the regulation that restricts youth hunters to use shotguns loaded with a slugs only during the primitive firearm season and allow youth hunters to use any legal weapon during the primitive firearm season. The specific amendment is as follows:
Special Youth Deer Season on Private Land
Either sex. Youths 17 years of age or younger may hunt deer with any legal weapon during the Primitive Firearms Season in each deer hunting area.
Either sex. Areas 1, 4, 5, 6: Oct. 29 - Nov. 4, 2011 and Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, 2012; Area 2: Oct. 8 - 14, 2011 and Oct. 13 - 19, 2012; Areas 3, 7, 8: Sept. 24 - 30, 2011 and Sept. 29 - Oct. 5, 2012.
To view the original notices of intent and amendments for proposed hunting season dates for the upcoming hunting season, please visit http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/action-items.
Public comment can be submitted to Randy Myers, Wildlife Division, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), P.O. Box 98000, Baton Rouge, LA 70898-9000, until May 5.
The public meeting schedule for the proposed 2011-12 hunting season is as follows:
- March 9 at 6 p.m., Alexandria Convention Hall located at 915 Third St.
- March 15 at 6:30 p.m., LDWF Office in Minden located at 9961 Hwy. 80.
- March 15 at 6:30 p.m., Yambilee Festival Bldg., 1939 W. Landry, Opelousas
- March 16 at 6 p.m., Ponchatoula High School Cafeteria, 19452 Hwy. 22.
- March 17 at 6 p.m., Bastrop Visitor Center, 124 N. Washington St.
- March 22 at 6:30 p.m., LSU Ag Center, 7101 Gulf Hwy., Lake Charles.
The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is charged with managing and protecting Louisiana's abundant natural resources. For more information, visit us at www.wlf.louisiana.gov on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ldwffb or follow us on Twitter @LDWF.
For more information, contact Randy Myers at 225-765-2359 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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LEXINGTON, Va. – It was a fine end of the season for the MIT rifle team as senior Elizabeth Phillips (Anchorage, Alaska) took the individual title in air rifle and led the Engineers to the top team score in air rifle and the second best score in small bore at the Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference Championship held at VMI. Phillips posted a 586 in air rifle to top the field by 14 points.
Competing in the Master's Division against the VMI women's team in air rifle, the Engineers finished on top of the Keydets by a score of 2,239-2,194. Phillips was on her game for MIT, posing a round of 99, two of 98 and three 97s to complete her score of 586, which was just one off her school record. Freshmen Sara Wright (Christchurch, New Zealand) posted a 570, including a pair of 97s, which established a new personal best. Junior Kaiying Liao (Issaquah, Wash.) was just one off her personal best, finishing just one point behind Wright with her 569. Freshman David D'Achiardi (Bogota, Colombia) completed the scoring for MIT with a 514.
Overall, Phillips finished ahead of Marie Madeleine Mallet and Kevin Jones from VMI who each shot a 572. In the overall team standings the VMI mixed team had the top finish with a score of 2,275. MIT was second with its 2,239, with Coast Guard third at 2,231.
In the small bore competition MIT took on the VMI mixed team in the Expert Division. In a close battle it was the Engineers that came out on top, edging past the Keydets by just two points, 2,186-2,184. Phillips led the way in this competition as well, firing a 99 and 98 on her way to a 566. Wright was close behind, finishing with a 560, with Liao adding a 531 and senior Timothy Jenks (The Woodlands, Texas) a 529 for the Engineers.
Phillips had the high score of all the competitors shooting at VMI, with Wright second. Teams from Akron and Navy were also part of the small bore competition, but they shot their scores elsewhere. With those scores in the mix, Phillips was seventh overall, with Wright sitting in 10th. Alan Agnew from Akron had the top overall score with a 580. MIT and the VMI mixed team were also 1-2 overall among the teams in Lexington, with the VMI men's squad third with a 2,125. Akron had the top overall team score with a 2,279, just edging out Navy which shot a 2,275.


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Closeup section of my tank
Tank Description
AGA 37 gallon, Sundial T5/2-14K,2-Actinic 03s, CPR Aquatics BakPak II, Rena Filstar 4 with only purigen, chemi-pure elite and phosphate absorber. One Koralia1 on the back left top blowing to front, Koralia Nano on the top right side blowing across to the left bottom corner. I add 8 drops of Iodide 1x/day, calcium is dosed as need to maintain 350PPM, magnesium,strontium/Moly are dosed every 9 days at 10 drops of each. Buffer added as needed to maintain 10-12dkH. I feed frozen rotifers, cyclopeze 3xs/week in small amounts. I use DTs Phtyo 1-2xs/week.
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Managed a pet store in 80's, had 23 freshwater tanks, bred central american cichlids bred true chameleons and Phelsuma (Gieco Gecko LOL!)went into the AF and have kids now, so thought it was time to expose them to the wonderful hobby of fish keeping.
Fish Kept
1-Banghaii Cardinal, 1-Firefish goby, 1-six-line wrasse, 1-yellow watchman goby, 1-painted clown goby, 1-green chromis, 1-pygmy hawk.
Corals/Plants Kept
2-Acans (1 red, 1 green) 2-Monti Cap (1 orange, 1 green) 1-Green Psammacora 1-Acro sp. 1-Duncan w/new head 1-Blasto wellsi w/3 new heads 1-Candy Cane 1-Robokaki Chalice 1-Alien Eye Chalice 1-Galaxia (it was on the bottom got bumped by the mag cleaner and all but died...my bad not checking it's location after the bottom relocation) 1-Green Favia 1-kenyan tree softie 2-Neon Green Sinularia 1-Green Polyped Leather 12+ assorted colored Ricordea 4+ hairy mushrooms 2 Metallic green elephant ears 2-Red Rhodactis 5 or 6 Green Rhodactis Many different color Discsomas Many different color Zoanthids 2 species Pulsing Xenia Electric Green Colve polyps that have orange tips Daisy Cloves Micro blue cloves Orange Gorgonian (captive frag doing good so far) INVERTS~ 6-8 blue leg hermits 2-peppermint shrimp 1-Scarlet cleaner shrimp 1-growing brittle star ( came as a hitchhiker)
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how on earth did you get them so tightly packed together, its amazing.. im seriously interested.
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Thank you! what a great way for my day to start...love the photos!
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Chuck, Cooper and Nina
Shelter dogs aren't broken. They've simply experienced more life than other dogs. If they were human, we would call them wise. They would be the ones with tales to tell and stories to write. Do not pity a shelter dog. Adopt one.
Love the photos! Fun in the park indeed!!!
That first picture of Deniki is precious too.
Madison (ruby, born 9/2003), and Oz (tri-color, born 7/2007)
In loving memory: Oliver (blenheim) 2001-2015; Riley (black & tan) 2002-2017
Great pictures! Love the way their ears flop around while running.
Joyce - Proudly owned & loved by
BellaMia (Aug. 30, 2012) My Beautiful Ruby Milo (Jan. 20, 2014) My Handsome Tri
Sydney (April 16, 2000~April 4, 2012) Always and Forever In My Heart
The last photo has "Competition winner" written all over it
Mumma to Leonardo (Leo to his friends)
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Topshop SS11 Lookbook
18 comments:
Funny how boho seems to renew itself every season and force its way back, it's not particularly my cup of tea (boho) but I think they mix it well with the Unique pieces + minimal...ReplyDelete
You've gotta love these!! ~~(゚o゚ )(゚o゚ )ReplyDelete
Elegant rebel much?
Pretty much love that image. ( ̄3 ̄)
And I agree, you can't stop loving them (/or/ spreading the love ★ countless of times.)
Nice share.
- Thuraya Lynn
Loving all the bright colours in this collection.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2011 at 12:38 PM
You'd be pleased to know that I had not actually seen these yet :) I love the huge paisley skirt!ReplyDelete
yep, they're worth the posting. Especially like how the hair of the models are died. Just the right colours.. though I'm missing some green/turqoise!:)ReplyDelete
Lovely prints,combination and colorful hippie style, great!ReplyDelete
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Jeep Liberty KJ - Mean GreenPosted in Features on November 1, 2007
Take a close look at Seth Green's Jeep Liberty and you'll quickly realize that there is nothing average about it. By now, many of you have probably seen Seth's rig on the cover of 4 WHEEL DRIVE & SPORT UTILITY's Oct. '07 issue traversing a log bridge during a recent trip through the forests outside Seattle, Washington. After spending a day on the trail with him and learning what it took to complete this project, we felt it was best to share his journey with our readers.
All J Products in Big Bear, California, was first featured in the Jan. '06 issue of 4WD&SU. We covered the company's custom-created Frankenlift Jeep Liberty suspension kit that has become a popular choice among KJ owners. From reading this article and seeing the capabilities of such a basic kit on the trail, Seth knew that All J would be a great choice for his completely rebuilt KJ project. He wanted to create a vehicle that would not only turn heads at automotive shows like SEMA but also hang with the best on the trails.
In order to get going on this project, All J Products had to remove the entire suspension and steering system from the Jeep because of the amount of fabrication that would be required to accommodate a straight-axle suspension swap and coilovers. With the entire suspension and steering gone, the base of the new suspension would be Nth Degree Mobility's 6-inch GyroJoint and long-arm suspension kit. Before the kit was installed, however, the entire unibody was reinforced with 3/8-inch-thick steel plate stitch-welded to the frame to support the new suspension and bellypan. All J took on the task of custom-fabricating mounts to make the suspension work, considering the kit is produced to work specifically on TJ-model Jeeps. The old front IFS suspension has now been transformed into a three-link setup running 10-inch Bilstein coilovers. Currie Antirock sway bars were added in the front to keep the suspension in line. Currie also supplied its HD TJ steering kit which consists of a 1-1/4-inch-diameter forged-alloy drag link, and a 1-1/4-inch solid-alloy tie-rod bar that is bored and threaded on the ends. Because Seth's new suspension consists of TJ geometry, the new steering kit went on very smoothly.
The stock rear suspension was also completely removed and replaced with the rear portion of the Nth Degree kit, which included its Stinger and Slider rear suspension components along with OME rear 80-series coils and Bilstein 5150 6-inch TJ shocks. The total lift height reached 8 inches, which proved to be enough for Seth to safely tuck Pro Comp 305/65R17 Xterrain tires on Pro Comp 17x8 wheels under his rig. In order to get the proper spacing, Spidertrax 1.25-inch spacers were added to each wheel. New suspension on all four corners meant new brakes as well. Up front, Vanco dual-piston disc brakes were chosen accompanied by Jeepin' by Al stainless steel braided brake lines. In the rear, a set of Tera Jeep TJ rear disc brakes was installed running matching brake lines.
The new front axle is an HP Dana 30 from an '89 Jeep XJ filled with 4.56 gears, Yukon axleshafts, and an ARB Air Locker. For the rear, a strong Dana 44 axle was pulled from an '06 Jeep TJ and stuffed with gears and a locker to match the front setup. J.E. Reel Drive Line Specialists of Pomona, California, was called upon to create a driveshaft to accommodate the new height of the Liberty.
When it came time to add protection accessories, working for ARB made a couple of Seth's choices very easy. Up front is ARB's Deluxe Bull Bar KJ front bumper that was painted to match the rest of the vehicle by Big Bear Auto. Seth went a little farther with his Mean Green machine by adding green synthetic winch line to his Warn winch. All J Products also installed its Boulder Bar rocker guards to keep the KJ's side panels rock-free. Protecting the gas tank is a super-stout Kilby Enterprises gas-tank skidplate. The spare tire hangs on a Rock Lizard Komodo Dragon rear tire carrier, and up top is the ARB Simpson II rooftop tent mounted to custom-made All J flat brackets.
If you still think this Jeep Liberty isn't capable of taking on the same trails as your TJ, maybe you need to take a ride with Seth. We spent a full day with him on the trail, and let us tell you, his Jeep wasn't the one holding up the party. The KJ has been turned into a completely new monster on the trail and still retains a smooth ride on the highway. Be on the lookout for this KJ on trails in the Northwest and Southwest states as well as at your local off-road exposition.


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In February 2013, Google released the Chromebook Pixel. This was the first non-Apple branded laptop that got my attention. From my time in the hackintosh scene, I've primarily focused on laptop devices, although i'm not sure why - I've never found a non-Apple laptop that caught my attention, until Google released the Chromebook Pixel.
So, shortly after the google announcement, I purchased the Pixel with the intent to convert it to a true mac clone. I must say, after receiving the machine, it's the only machine that has a touchpad that I've ever preferred over a mac. The build quality on the machine is excellent, and the form-factor and screen size a re perfect for me.
From a hackintosh standpoint, there are a few benefits and drawback: For the drawbacks:
- Soldered on SSD (32GB or 64GB)
- Soldered on (unsupported) WIFI card
- I2C attached touchpad
- I2C attached touchscreen
And the benifits:
- Supported GPU
- Supported CPU
- mini-PCIe slot (USB only though)
- Supported card reader
- Open-source bios (coreboot)
- I2C attached touch-devices (because, you know, I like writing kernel extensions...)
Stay tuned for Part 1 where I'll go over my initial attempt at hackintoshing the machine (it's been a while, so it might be lacking at details), and the issues I ran into with it. Part 2 will go over bios modifications that were made to improve the experience.