Separate places for iTunes media library and database

I am currently using iTunes with my iTunes together on a NAS library and adding pieces can take forever. I want to do the following:

1. keep my music in a folder on the NAS

2. continue to use iTunes to manage and organize songs with the structure of the artist/Album/song, I added new things

3. move the iTunes itl and xml files to the local hard drive

4. without having to rebuild the database, if possible. I have a massive collection and the database on NAS won 48 hours.

Can someone help me get there where it won't take me another 48 hours to rebuild?

Not 100% sure it will work properly...  I know that you are your whole iTunes on the NAS.

On the internal drive of your Mac, in the folder of music the user account, create a new empty folder called iTunes there.  This is the default location for the folder iTunes (with library databases and media folder).  If there is an existing folder (currently unused) iTunes , delete or move to another location if you want to keep it.

Quit iTunes if it is running.  On the NAS, open the iTunes folder it (using the Finder) and copy all except for the iTunes Media to the (empty) folder folder iTunes disk internal.  Hold down the Option key and start iTunes. Choose the iTunes Library.itl file in the folder iTunes of the internal drive.

In the pane iTunes Advanced preferences, is the location of the folder iTunes Media on the folder iTunes Media on the NAS, or (by default) location in the folder iTunes on the internal drive?  If he has given to the default location on the internal disk, click change , and then select your iTunes Media on the NAS folder.  The TWO boxes there to keep iTunes Media folder organized AND copy files to the iTunes folder when adding to Library Media should be checked, if they aren't already.

Now, the real test is to see if your songs are related to files of song on the NAS, or if iTunes has lost track where the song files.  Try to play a song.  If she plays (you don't see a symbol of an exclamation mark next to songs in iTunes), then iTunes is access to the file of the song of the SIN.  If iTunes cannot locate the file of the song more and invite you to search for, locate the file of the song on the NAS for iTunes.  Using this information, iTunes can extrapolate where its music files and find them.

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