(Credit: Donald Bell/CNET Networks)Last week, I showed you a technique for keeping your music collections separate from one another in a communal iTunes library. This week, I'll try and help out those of you with the opposite problem--people with fractured iTunes libraries across multiple user profiles who want to pool their family's media together.The root of the problem is that unlike Windows Media Player, Winamp, or nearly any other multimedia jukebox application, there's no way to get iTunes to actively monitor multiple folders on your computer and add new content automatically. In a perfect world, you could tell iTunes to create its library based on the music stored in all the "My Music" folders of every user on your computer. Unfortunately, iTunes doesn't work that way.You can, however, make it so that any media added to any instance of iTunes on your PC is copied to a single, central location that all users can access. Pointing every installation of iTunes on your computer to a common library is as easy as holding down the shift button when you launch the application. The hardest part, often, is archiving and merging all the separate media collections each user has been amassing up until this point.We've made another step-by-step guide that walks you through the back-up, redirecting, and restoring of a single iTunes library that pulls content from every user account on your computer. For extra inspiration, you can also take a look at the Insider Secrets video I shot, that outlines the steps for this iTunes tip and last week's. With any luck, you can use both these tips together to pool all your family's media and iTunes purchases together, and still maintain some sanity-saving restrictions on what content is copied to your individual iPod or iPhone.If you have any other tips to share, please include them in the comments section.
Login as the user with the smaller of the two iTunes libraries. You'll need to back this library up, so picking the smaller library will save you time.
Keep in mind that the backup process will copy all your iTunes content, including iPhone applications, audiobooks, games, movies, music, music videos, podcasts, ringtones, and TV shows.
백업 과정은 아이폰 애플리케이션, 오디오북, 게임, 영화, 음악, 뮤직비디오, 팟캐스트, 링톤, TV쇼를 포함한 당신의 모든 아이튠즈 컨텐츠들을 복사한다는점을 명심하십시오.
(* Keep in mind=명심하다 / * process= [동] 처리하다 [명] 과정 / * include=포함하다 / * including= ~을 포함하여, ~을 포함한)
If you have any content you don't care about taking with you (do you really need all those old podcasts?) delete it before you waste your time backing it up.
만일 당신이 당신과 함께하는지에 대해서 신경쓰지 않는 어떤 컨텐츠라도 있다면 (정말로 그 오래된 팟캐스트들이 모두 필요하십니까?), 백업하느라 시간을 낭비하기 전에 그것들을 지워버리십시오.
(* care=관여하다, 관심을가지다, 신경쓰다, 돌보다 / * waste=낭비하다 / * back something up= something[무언가]를 백업하다)
Step 3:
Depending on the size of your library, you may have to back up your collection across several CDs or DVDs.
When you're done with your backup, close iTunes.
당신의 라이브러리 크기에 따라서, 라이브러리를 몇장의 CD들이나 혹은 DVD들을 걸쳐서 백업해야만 할것입니다.
백업이 끝났다면, 아이튠즈를 닫으십시오.
(* Depend on= ~에 의존하다, ~에 달려있다 / * across= ~을 가로질러, ~을 걸쳐서 )
Step 4:
Reopen iTunes with the shift button held down (Option for Mac users). This will prompt you to choose the library file you want iTunes to use.
Shift키를 누른채로 아이튠즈를 여십시오 (맥 사용자들은 옵션키 입니다). 이렇게하면 당신이 아이튠즈가 사용하길 원하는 라이브러리 파일을 선택하도록 물을것입니다.
Step 5:
Look in the My Music folder of the user whose library will be acting as the master library.마스터 라이브러리로 동작할 라이브러리를 가진 사용자의 내 음악 폴더를 살펴보십시오.
By default, you'll find it in "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\." Within the user's iTunes folder you should find an iTunes Library file. Select it and hit OK.
기본적으로, "C:\Documents and Settings\사용자 이름\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\"에서 찾을 수 있습니다.
사용자의 아이튠즈 폴더에서 아이튠즈 라이브러리 파일을 찾아야만 합니다. (찾았다면) 그걸 고르고 OK를 누르십시오.
Step 6:
You've successfully loaded the other user's music collection into your iTunes. Unfortunately, your personal music collection has disappeared. Let's remedy that in the next step.당신은 이제 성공적으로 다른 사용자의 뮤직 콜렉션을 여러분의 아이튠즈로 불러왔습니다.
불행하게도, 당신의 개인 음악 콜렉션은 사라져버렸습니다. 다음 단계에서 그걸 고칩시다.
(* successfully=성공적으로 / * disappear=사라지다 <-> appear=나타나다 / * remedy=치료, 치료요법, 고치다, 치료하다)
Step 7:
Now, with iTunes still open, insert the backup disc you made (or the first in the series of discs, if your collection was too large for a single disc). iTunes will ask whether you want to restore from this disc. Click Restore. Finally, hit "Consolidate Library" in the file menu just to make sure everything gets copied to the new location. iTunes should remember all these changes from here forward, without you making any extra effort.
이제, 여전히 아이튠즈가 열려진 상태로, 당신이 만든 백업 디스크를 넣고 (혹은 만일 당신의 콜렉션이 하나의 디스크에 들어가기에 너무 큰 경우라면 디스크들중 첫번째 디스크를 넣으십시오). 아이튠즈는 이 디스크로부터 복구하길 원하는지 아닌지를 물을것입니다. 복구를 누르십시오. 마침내, 파일 메뉴에서 "라이브러리 합치기" 를 눌러서 모든것이 새 위치로 잘 복사되었는지 확인하십시오. 아이튠즈는 당신이 어떤 추가적인 노력을 들이게 하지 않고도, 여기서부터의 변경점들을 기억해야만 합니다.
Perform these same steps on any other accounts you want to merge on this same computer and you'll have one big happy iTunes library filled with everyone's music. The only catch is that different users can't run iTunes simultaneously(=동시에), so be sure to quit iTunes before you log off.
이러한 같은 단계들을 이 같은 컴퓨터상에 있는 합치고자 하는 다른 계정들에서도 실행하십시오.
이제 당신은 하나의 큰, 모두의 노래로 채워진 행복한 아이튠즈 라이브러리를 가지게 됩니다.
신경써야할 한가지는 오직 서로 다른사용자간에 아이튠즈를 동시에 실행시킬 수 없다는 점이기에, 로그오프하기전에
아이튠즈를 확실히 종료시키십시오.