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How to remove iTunes music from WHS

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I can't be the only person that wants to do this, so here goes:
I had iTunes installed on my office PC - It did a sync and all of that music is now on WHS in the music folder.
My office pc is in my home office, and I had mapped my music folder to an external media drive.
I only ever used the office pc to play music while working, I never attached an ipod to it.
I've reinstalled iTunes now and there is no music in my library on the office pc (As i wanted)
The problem is, all of that music that WHS had aggregrated is still sitting on my WHS. I want to clean that up because it's an exact copy of what i have from my other Dell that I actually connect the ipods to.
So, the question is -- how do I clean this old music off the WHS.
I can see all of the music on whs in music/computername/driveletter
I can also see all of the xml/m3u files in music/computername/myusername
If I posted in the wrong area, slap me around all you like - but point me in the right direction please
JerrSaturday, November 1, 2008 10:36 AM
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jbeechii said:
I can't be the only person that wants to do this, so here goes:
I had iTunes installed on my office PC - It did a sync and all of that music is now on WHS in the music folder.
My office pc is in my home office, and I had mapped my music folder to an external media drive.
I only ever used the office pc to play music while working, I never attached an ipod to it.
I've reinstalled iTunes now and there is no music in my library on the office pc (As i wanted)
The problem is, all of that music that WHS had aggregrated is still sitting on my WHS. I want to clean that up because it's an exact copy of what i have from my other Dell that I actually connect the ipods to.
So, the question is -- how do I clean this old music off the WHS.
I can see all of the music on whs in music/computername/driveletter
I can also see all of the xml/m3u files in music/computername/myusername
If I posted in the wrong area, slap me around all you like - but point me in the right direction please
Jerr
Did you try deleting it from the music share?- Marked as answer by jbeechii Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:00 PM
Saturday, November 1, 2008 1:02 PMModerator -
As kariya21 has suggested, delete that whole ugly folder structure from your music share.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)- Marked as answer by jbeechii Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:00 PM
Saturday, November 1, 2008 1:21 PMModerator
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jbeechii said:
I can't be the only person that wants to do this, so here goes:
I had iTunes installed on my office PC - It did a sync and all of that music is now on WHS in the music folder.
My office pc is in my home office, and I had mapped my music folder to an external media drive.
I only ever used the office pc to play music while working, I never attached an ipod to it.
I've reinstalled iTunes now and there is no music in my library on the office pc (As i wanted)
The problem is, all of that music that WHS had aggregrated is still sitting on my WHS. I want to clean that up because it's an exact copy of what i have from my other Dell that I actually connect the ipods to.
So, the question is -- how do I clean this old music off the WHS.
I can see all of the music on whs in music/computername/driveletter
I can also see all of the xml/m3u files in music/computername/myusername
If I posted in the wrong area, slap me around all you like - but point me in the right direction please
Jerr
Did you try deleting it from the music share?- Marked as answer by jbeechii Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:00 PM
Saturday, November 1, 2008 1:02 PMModerator -
As kariya21 has suggested, delete that whole ugly folder structure from your music share.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)- Marked as answer by jbeechii Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:00 PM
Saturday, November 1, 2008 1:21 PMModerator -
I just wanted to make sure that by deleting the folder I was not going to corrupt something, or corrupt the itunes media streaming.
Seems to have worked like a champ, Guess Im just a little timid as Im new to the WHS world.
Thanks for the suggestions!Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:00 PM -
Eventually the iTunes streaming software on the server will re-index your server's shares and will remove the deleted files from it's database. Until that happens, you may continue to see those files.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Saturday, November 1, 2008 4:06 PMModerator