I decided to protect my iTunes content by moving my I-Tunes music storage folder location to my UnRaid.  Everything seems to work OK, but now the Parity & the Drive holding the Music don't spin down.  I take it some part of the iTunes software processeses is periodically polling the data?

 

Anyone currently storing their ITunes music on their UnRaid?

 

I'm using UnRaid V2.060706 BTW.

 

Thanks,

 

Mark.

Must be writing.  Is there any way to seperate the Itunes database from the actual stored files?  You could keep the database on your PC & the music files themselves on the array.

I've kept my iTunes library on Unraid since the start ( I share it between users). Fortunately for me, it's on a driver that is spinning nearly all the time anyways )my scratch and download drive), so I've never really noticed that.

Must be writing.  Is there any way to seperate the Itunes database from the actual stored files?  You could keep the database on your PC & the music files themselves on the array.

I'm really new to iTunes so I'm not sure, after a quick look at the preferences it doesn't seem like you can.

 

I checked regularly and after after 4 hours it was still up, however having just checked again (well over 6 hours) both drives appear to have spun down.

 

Anyone else have any experiemces of iTunes on UnRaid?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark.

Well, my iTunes db is in ...\My Documents\My Music\iTunes (which is on a local drive) but my music is somewhere else entirely (a different local drive but could just as easily be on a remote (such as unRaid) drive).  Is your "My Documents" folder set to be on an unRaid volume?

 

Matt

The special Shell folder (Registry hack) "My Music" is set to a network share on the UnRaid in my case. Readily acheivable in XP via a registry edit or something such as TweakXP, it is now directly exposed as a user setting in Vista.

 

I also redirect my Families "Favorites", "My Documents", My Pictures" and "My Movies" all to unraid shares. Not as muych for the redundancy, as for the fact that I have roaming profiles this way and have the same favorites, etc on each PC.

 

Also, some software works better/easier if if thinks it's writing to the shell folder "My Pictures", etc...

The special Shell folder (Registry hack) "My Music" is set to a network share on the UnRaid in my case. Readily acheivable in XP via a registry edit or something such as TweakXP, it is now directly exposed as a user setting in Vista.

 

I also redirect my Families "Favorites", "My Documents", My Pictures" and "My Movies" all to unraid shares. Not as muych for the redundancy, as for the fact that I have roaming profiles this way and have the same favorites, etc on each PC.

 

Also, some software works better/easier if if thinks it's writing to the shell folder "My Pictures", etc...

 

could you please briefly describe exactly how to accomplish this or point me to a resource for how to do this?

 

thanks,

 

--Don

Sure, if you're not comy with editing the registry, just change the location of the "My Music" special shell folder using Microsoft's Tweak UI power toy for Windows XP:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

Good news under Vista, this is built in using the properties sheets of the special folders.

 

Works great, but I've noticed if you move everything like I have (documents, music, favorites, pictures) to the network, some Windows Installer (MSI) installs have issues as they reference the shell folders while running in the windows installer service context and they are not mapped. For this I believe the only way around it is to map in our old friend autoexec.bat (know they kept this around for a reason ;-).