I need to move a centrally stored music repository from one server to another. This is accessed by about 30 clients within a music company. So I need to change the file path at the back end of iTunes configuration.

Spoke to Apple about this. They of course do not support programmatic change of their products on Windows machines whatsoever. Their only resolution was to do it manually through EDIT > PREFERENCES > ADVANCED > CHANGE 'iTunes Media folder location' on each client.

I am a bit new to Powershell, so hoping someone can point me in right direction. I'm just not sure how I can get into iTunes configuration using Powershell. Any help would be gratefully received.

Many thanks,
Tom

Well, the only approach I can think of is looking whether this entry is stored in registry... Remote registry editing can be tricky though.

Found it, but I don't have time to write a solution. Luckily, I'm not the only person here. :)

1. look at $env:appdata\Apple Computer\iTunes or maybe $env:appdata\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes and check out iTunesPrefs.xml
2. Figure out how to go to the right place in the XML file and assign the contents of a certain node to a variable. This worked for me:

PS > $prefs = "$env:appdata\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunesPrefs.xml"
PS > [xml]$xml = gc $prefs
PS > $xml.plist[1].dict.dict[2].data[7]

QwA6AFwAVQBzAGUAcgBzAFwASABhAGwAXABNAHUAcwBpAGMAXABpAFQAdQBu
AGUAcwBcAGkAVAB1AG4AZQBzACAATQB1AHMAaQBjACAATABpAGIAcgBhAHIA
eQAuAHgAbQBsAA==

I made an educated guess that this was the right key, and that it was base64-encoded. I manually stripped the spaces and so forth and...

PS > $str = "QwA6AFwAVQBzAGUAcgBzAFwASABhAGwAXABNAHUAcwBpAGMAXABpAFQAdQBuAGUAcwBcAGkAVAB1AG4AZQBzACA
ATQB1AHMAaQBjACAATABpAGIAcgBhAHIAeQAuAHgAbQBsAA=="
PS > $b = [convert]::FromBase64String($str)
PS > [system.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString($b)
C:\Users\Hal\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music Library.xml

Instructions on how to do the base-64 encoding/decoding are here: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/ar...3265.aspx.

Then put the right value in the file, and cross your fingers, and restart iTunes. :)

I did check the registry first, Apple doesn't put many things in the registry for their Windows software.

In case you are curious, the magical XML query was a bunch of experimentation combined with noticing that the name of a config item has the same index as its data.

$xml.plist[1].dict.dict[2].data[7]