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Product Description:
iTunes Library Manager makes backup copies of your iTunes Music Library database file and iTunes Preferences, allowing you to easily save multiple iTunes Library and Preferences configurations that can be retrieved and loaded at any time.
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What's new in this version:
Updated in version 5.1:
- Maintenance release; updated for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- Added "Check For Update" menu option
This is a free update for registered users.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- iTunes 7 or higher
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
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New iTunes Libraries are created full. - Version: 5.0.2, 4/10/2007 07:47AM PST
(1 of 3 users found this comment useful)
tusharshantam999
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- New iTunes Libraries are created full.
Notes for fellow 4.x users - Version: 5.0.1, 10/2/2006 12:33PM PST
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brian163
This new version is well refined but as a long time 4.x user, I feel the author's "Updating-MUST READ", Help Menu and web site fall short on a few key details. (My notes here include some suggestions for the author which I'm not implying he should receive here but I think others should be aware of.)
First, the 5.x installer will not attempt to uninstall an older version. Since the new version is an app and not an iTunes script, you must go to <home>/Library/iTunes/Scripts directory and drag the original "iTunes Library Manager" script out of the folder and restart iTunes. Then the old ILM will no longer appear in the iTunes script menu for accidental launching. (I would like to see the author provide a new script to launch the 5.x app from within iTunes for convenience. Not all of us are Applescript geniuses like him. ;-] )
Note that if, like me, you also used the author's AppleScript Extras 4.x scripts for create/delete/export/import functions you should remove them from this folder as well.
Which brings up my second note. It appears in 5.x that you lose the import/export between libraries functionality of 4.x. A bummer for users like myself that I think should have been noted.
Third, be forewarned. The "New" library button does not have a cancel button. If you decided to check it out as an option, you will find yourself forced to go through the process of creating a new library. (Which you could then delete but what a pain.)
Overall, I would not discourage others from "upgrading" for $10. But hopefully some of my observations will be helpful to others in making that decision.
First, the 5.x installer will not attempt to uninstall an older version. Since the new version is an app and not an iTunes script, you must go to <home>/Library/iTunes/Scripts directory and drag the original "iTunes Library Manager" script out of the folder and restart iTunes. Then the old ILM will no longer appear in the iTunes script menu for accidental launching. (I would like to see the author provide a new script to launch the 5.x app from within iTunes for convenience. Not all of us are Applescript geniuses like him. ;-] )
Note that if, like me, you also used the author's AppleScript Extras 4.x scripts for create/delete/export/import functions you should remove them from this folder as well.
Which brings up my second note. It appears in 5.x that you lose the import/export between libraries functionality of 4.x. A bummer for users like myself that I think should have been noted.
Third, be forewarned. The "New" library button does not have a cancel button. If you decided to check it out as an option, you will find yourself forced to go through the process of creating a new library. (Which you could then delete but what a pain.)
Overall, I would not discourage others from "upgrading" for $10. But hopefully some of my observations will be helpful to others in making that decision.
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Useless 
- Version: 5.0, 9/29/2006 05:22PM PST
(5 of 8 users found this comment useful)
Jey 10.3
Useless since you can manage multiple library with just one keystroke…
you just have to press "option" (Alt) on your keyboard to select the library you want to use (just like in iPhoto)
so why spend money for a feature when Apple give it to you ?
you just have to press "option" (Alt) on your keyboard to select the library you want to use (just like in iPhoto)
so why spend money for a feature when Apple give it to you ?
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I opened Libra and created a new library on the external drive and made it the active library. when iTunes opened up, my entire library from the internal drive was in the new library. I expected a clean, empty library. Disappointing.
As a test, I made the external library active and imported a CD. I expected to see the new CD only in the external library. However, when I made the original internal drive library active, the new imported CD was there. Again, Disappointing
Is this expected behavior? I understood that Libra would allow me to create new empty iTunes libraries on external drives and that I could import music unique to that library.
Am I using Libra incorrectly or is this how it is supposed to work?
Thanks.
iTunes 4.1.7
windows XP pro on a thinkpad T41p