Don’t ask. I still don’t know why.
iTunes shared on bootcamp
You would have thought Apple would give you some way of sharing your iTunes library easily between Mac and Windows… or was that me being a bit optimistic there.
Anyway, quick search on the internet to see if people had ways of sharing iTunes libraries between operating systems. Answer wasn’t really much.
However, I’ve stumbled upon this nice little tool called Link Shell Extension (free) which has allowed me to symbolically link the iTunes folder on my Mac partition, onto my Windows partition.
Easy enough to do. Once you’ve installed LSE, right click the iTunes folder on your mac partition, and select ‘Pick Link Source’. Then in the Music folder on Windows, right click, select ‘Drop as’, then ‘Hardlink’. A voila.
Pretty much working near flawlessly so far for me, as you can see, my full library along with playlists. Seems to have synced my apple ID as well, but wouldn’t count on it working properly.
Only issue I’ve come across is iTunes can’t write to the database. Not sure why, since I’ve got Paragon HFS installed so I can write to the disk. Like I said, minor issue. I want to listen to my music on Windows, not really add stuff.
So, there you go. I’m now listening to my iTunes library on windows on my macbook on a megabus going to Leeds. It’s now a shame I didn’t charge my mac up fully last night, but I can live with that.
Christmas 2011
Heh, it’s been a while since I’ve used my blog, and for once this isn’t an angered filled rant. Just summing up what I did over Christmas this year. Not the most interesting thing ever to happen, but still different than the normal.
This Christmas has been different first off because my Grandma from my dad’s side was in hospital recovering from an operation she has had. I should stress she is fine, and recovering well, and the rest of my family went to visit her in Swindon Great Western Hospital later that day.
Me on the other hand went to see my other Grandparents in Gloucester, so they were not alone this Christmas. They are doing well, my Granddad was happy with the new ‘snuggie’ blanket he received for Christmas and the food was good. We had a four bird roast for Christmas lunch, which tasted pretty good. Shame about the Christmas pudding which would have been nicer if the pudding tasted more fruity.
Went home later that evening to the rest of my family, as well as my other Granddad who was staying over for Christmas, for yet another Christmas meal. I felt so fat afterwards.
Not much else to report, apart from plenty of clothes for Christmas, and probably the most useful thing I have ever had out of a cracker, a 1m miniature tape measure which hooks onto your key ring. No idea where we got those crackers from, but I was impressed!
Day over, was back to normality the next day and back to work.