Question: Locking iTunes
I was curious, does anyone know of a way you could lock iTunes? So that they playlists and their contents cannot be deleted or altered? I am having a little party tomorrow night and I do not want someone to be able to alter the playlists or delete anything either on purpose or by mistake.
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Originally posted by bergz
The only thing that occurs to me is to change the permissions on your itunes music folder to read-only. That's for the songs. Maybe someone else can tell you where the playlists are kept.
--B
You could create a new login, and chmod the files to be that login. (this is "from memory", so try it on a test file first):
cd to directory with files
chmod 755 *
chown newuser *
and after the party
chown olduser *
Or, you could back up the files to some offline storage (iPod in closet?) and restore them after the party.
That's what I'd do anyhoo
Originally posted by Wifty
Surely a far far simpler solution would be to start your music and then set the screensaver. You can then configure it so you need a password to unlock the screensaver but the music will keep playing while the screensaver is on (won't it?)
That's what I'd do anyhoo
Sure but with over three thousand albums I think people would get tired of hearing the same song over and over again.....and some stuff I have is rather heavy (grind/hardcore punk) and not everyone wants to hear that so I cannot shuffle the master Library.
I was thinking about changing permissions but that would really lock down the playlists. I guess I could just make a copy of the iTunes folder (music not included) in case someone were to mess with the playlist settings I would have it backed up.....
Thanks for the advice so far, but still taking suggestions.
Originally posted by Jared
Sure but with over three thousand albums I think people would get tired of hearing the same song over and over again.....and some stuff I have is rather heavy (grind/hardcore punk) and not everyone wants to hear that so I cannot shuffle the master Library.
Smart playlists. It'll take two minutes to set up.
Party shuffle doesn't have to be from your entire Library.
--B
Originally posted by bergz
Smart playlists. It'll take two minutes to set up.
Party shuffle doesn't have to be from your entire Library.
--B
Yeah I thought about that but the ID3 tags are not to well organized in terms of genre. Besides, I would rather let the people decide what they want to listen to.
This should also work when sharing libraries on the same machine (fast user switching). What OS are you running?
Originally posted by Paul
This should also work when sharing libraries on the same machine (fast user switching). What OS are you running?
It creates a new music folder, in which the Library will be blank. Tiger on my laptop and Panther on my jukebox.
You can also Get Info on those files and set the permissions to read-only, which would let your friends play music but not alter the playlists.