Comments on: Manage multiple iTunes & iPhoto libraries on the same computer

By: Arfnu

Arfnu — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:55:56 +0000

It stopped working for me too (WinXP). I ended up “solving” this very inelegantly with batch files: Imagine you have two different libraries, Alpha.itl, and Beta.itl, and that itunes defaults to loading “Library.itl”. 1) Copy Alpha.itl to Library.itl. Force overwrite so no user input is required (/Y for dos copy command) 2) Run itunes 3) Force-copy Library.itl back over Alpha.itl once itunes is closed, to preserve any changes you made to that library. Make a similar batch file for running it with Beta.itl. Like I said, inelegant, and I wish they’d make library switching something you could do in-program.

By: fred

fred — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:04:15 +0000

doesnt work for me (holding alt/option) no matter how long I hold it.

By: louis

louis — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:53:12 +0000

you must continue press alt until itunes has started, because iTunes 10 is something slower in starting up

By: SRA

SRA — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:13:09 +0000

Right! It doesn’t work with iTunes 10!!! can anyone help??

By: Denis

Denis — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:25:59 +0000

It seems that this option doesn’t work with ITunes 10

By: Neel

Neel — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:59:55 +0000

I have almost 100gb of music on my hard drive and and want to back up only the music…. Not everything else. How would I go about doing this??

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:14:37 +0000

Nice tidbit. You can also select a different library on The Hit List the same way—perfect for Dropbox syncing!