Copy iTunes library to new computer and NAS configuration as an iTunes server

Hello

My current setup is a macbook with an external hard drive to the iTunes library. I just bought a new Macbook Pro and am about to transfer my library from anywhere on my new computer. I have a very large iTunes library and I would like to be able to access it from my laptop, iPhone and iPad using Plex, Sonos or similar to primarily play music around my house. I won't have my Macbook Pro on all the time to play the music.

Rather than copy my iTunes through library to my new Macbook Pro, I intend to:

1 copy my current iTunes library to a NAS drive

2. set the destination folder to iTunes on my new MacBook Pro on the NAS drive

What is the correct procedure? Are there problems that? Does anyone have suggestions better?

Drag the iTunes folder everything from the old computer to the NAS. Launch iTunes on the new computer while holding down the option/alt key and when prompted choose the iTunes Library.itl file in the iTunes on the NAS folder.

The NAS must be on and wake up before from iTunes or the computer will forget the location of the library file and you use the option + method again.

Some like the idea of a SIN to do what you want to do but iTunes and NAS don't do not always play very well together.  Make sure that you keep good backups against the day you post here saying that your iTunes library everything is a mess and you try to play a track and something completely different once. or etc, etc.

I don't know about all of these interfaces you mention.  If you are hosting the music to an iPhone an iPhone can not read directly a NAS and you must have iTunes running to serve the media.

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