I've got a reasonably chunky 114 GB 18,500 song itunes library on a 7200rpm 1TB airdisk connected via usb to my airport extreme. I did this so I could share the one central library between my leopard desktop G5, (which is permanently connected to my home stereo) and my snow leopard MBP laptop (which I generally use on the couch/in bed etc with headphones). Both macs are running iTunes 9.0.1
My problem is this: every time I switch between computers and open the air disk library itunes automatically starts recalculating the gapless playback for the entire library. This makes itunes unusable and takes days (well I assume it would if I let it finish. I did let it finish the very first time and it took approx 1.5 days!) Then if I switch to the other mac, the same thing happens again! So essentially I'm stuck using the airdisk itunes library on only one computer which totally defeats the purpose. This gapless playback issue never arose under itunes 8.
iTunes performance from airdisk is absolutely molasses slow at the best of times. I've persevered because it's the only way I've figured out to be able to use the one central library on both computers without having to have them both turned on all the time (as would be the case if I had the itunes library the g5 and networked it through itunes on the laptop).
I'm about to concede defeat and remove the music library from the airdisk, or downgrade back to itunes 8.
Is anyone doing this kind of thing successfully? What's the secret?
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