Roy Silber asks:
How can I move my movies collection from an external hard disk to the iTunes library?
I want to see them on my television via Apple TV.
5 Answers -
Chris Hoffman
January 16, 2012Try clicking the File menu and selecting Add Folder to Library. You can add the external hard disk to your iTunes library, so it’ll appear on your Apple TV.
It’ll only appear on your Apple TV if the external hard disk is plugged in, unless you use the Consolidate Files option – this creates new copies of your media files in your iTunes Library folder and leaves the files on your external hard drive alone.
Click File, point to Library and select Organize Library. You’ll find the Consolidate Files option there.
thank you for your quick answer.
January 20, 2012I find the Consolidate Files option but the iTunes doesn’t saving the option…..
what should i do?
I’m sorry, what do you mean it isn’t saving?
If you click OK after selecting the option, iTunes should copy all your files over. This will happen one time, but it’ll get your library in order.
January 20, 2012sorry but its not happening….
January 20, 2012i mark the box ‘Consolidate Files’ in iTunes but after i look at it the mark doest pappear and the movies still in my hard disk
Well, you can still do it the manual way.
Open the Computer window from the Start menu, double-click your removable hard drive and find the video files, Select them all, right-click ‘em and click Copy.
Then, go browse to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder in your iTunes Media folder (at C:UsersChrisMusiciTunesiTunes MediaAutomatically Add to iTunes for me) and paste the video files into there.
January 20, 2012again, and please slowly:)
January 20, 2012I have I-Mac
Oh, sorry, you didn’t mention!
You can probably just click File-Add to Library and use the “Copy files to the iTunes Music folder when adding to library” option.
Apple has more information here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1473#2
January 20, 2012for some reason after i mark this option in my iTunes library option, it disappears…..
January 20, 2012do i need to go through each movie and convert it to MP4 and only afterwards to move it to iTunes movie library?
I’m sorry, I’m not sure what the problem could be.
You shouldn’t have to convert your files to MP4, as long as they already play in iTunes.
January 20, 2012maybe this is the problem??!!
January 20, 2012the files are not played in iTunes….
Ah, well, you probably need to convert them then!
Give Handbrake a try: http://handbrake.fr/
January 20, 2012thank you very much!
January 21, 2012Its mean that I have to go and convert file by file?
January 21, 2012Perhaps — I haven’t used Handbrake much, but I’d heard it’s one of the best programs. Feel free to ask another question about using Handbrake; maybe you’ll get people who can help more.
January 21, 2012FIDELIS
January 16, 2012Hello, you could try the work around described in following link:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070427071707626
Anonymous
January 16, 2012If you add the contents of the external hard drive to your iTunes library on your Mac or PC, you will be able to stream content from the iTunes library to the 2010 Apple TV. This will require you to have the Airport Extreme and external hard drive powered on, with iTunes running on your Mac or PC, in order to share content.In a nutshell, you won’t be able to stream video directly from the hard drive, but by adding the content to iTunes with Home Sharing, it is possible.
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