2 itunes installs
I want to be able to have one itunes running for listening to my music and one itunes strictly for djing so i can organise my dj stuff in itunes and my other stuff can go into the general itunes.
Couldn’t you just have two collections?
What do u mean. Playlists sorry I’m still new to itunes.
Hold the option key when starting iTunes (shift on PC’s I think) and you will be asked which library you want to use. You’ll also be given the option to create a new library.
Alright thanks I am running Windows 7 so ill try it in the morning
wow that works thats awesome. i just happened upon this post. what a life changing event 
Glad I could help 
How dose tractor recognize this ?
you are a god
I would like to know that same, Im hoping that you just choose the main one, then open traktor then once you click on the itunes symbol try closing itunes again?
I have not done this yet but plan to
+1 anyone know?
You’ll have two xml files so you tell Traktor to use the DJ one.
Of course I didn’t even think of selecting that in the settings .
I was looking for this! Just setting up my iTunes from scratch now.
Windows 7 PC crashed with a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) for the umpteenth time and giving me repeated false memory errors etc. Also, even with regular cleaning and defragging, it was clearly slowing and slowing (as Windows PC’s do over time whatever you do bar constant fresh reinstalls!). Got sick of and I’ve removed Windows and installed OSX on my PC (which was surprisingly straightforward. It now runs OSX 10.6.7 as my only boot and is super smooth compared to Windows 7 (though still working my way around). I’m now a fully fledged Mac convert (just without being able to afford the hardware at the moment so do what I can with a legit Apple Snow Leopard retail disc bought for £29!).
However, back to the topic, it meant my iTunes backup now won’t work properly on my Mac install of iTunes so I have to start from scratch again (tried everything to get iTunes to recognise the Windows version!).
This is exactly what I was looking for though to keep my collection and my DJ tunes separate! Will give it a bash tonight!
Whilst on the iTunes topic, does anyone here keep their iTunes library on an external hard drive? I followed some tutorials and set it up, using Preferences > Advanced to point to a library created on my external drive. Then deleted the iTunes folder in Users/Music/ on my Mac (I love saying “on my Mac”! ) but as soon as I open iTunes it recreates the structure in Users/Music/. However, it does seem to add the new tunes onto my external drive. Is this how it normally works?
And also, any way to get .wma files into iTunes on a Mac? I know .wma isn;t the best (far from), but use it in the early days to save hard drive space so got a lot of older stuff from years ago as my generic music (not to DJ with) in this format.
I THINK that’s the iTunes library file which may very well need to be stored in music. But like you said it should still store your music wherever you have it selected in preferences to store.
Just convert them to mp3. I have no idea if iTunes is can do the conversion though. Have you tried dragging a wma into iTunes? You may need to use something like Audacity.
I read some tutorial saying to point it to your external drive via ITunes Preferences > Advanced. Then tick the box about keeping your collection organised. Then copy everything from the Users/Music/iTunes/ folder into the external hard drive location you’ve pointed to. Then delete the iTunes folder in Users/Music/.
Stupidly, I thought it’d be that easy with what’s now on the external drive being used with the library, xml, music, artwork files and folders being there. How stupid was I!
Yep, tried dragging and it just rejects them and doesn’t trigger any action. I’ve loads of them which would be a pain to convert. You’d think, with wma being a common format, that iTunes would be capable of converting them to AAC or mp3.
ill have a pay around with it tonight for you, i use a program called SWITCH with is a audio converter, i convert WMA to MP3 all the time works great
i use any audio converter. thats the name not a statement lol. its free and it hasnt let me down or anything. its a music and video converter thing.