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Changing the Frequency of New Music Scans, Disabling the iTunes Shared Library

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4. Playing Back Your Media Playing Music Stored on Seagate Central in iTunes Note: Seagate Central includes music in the Public folder in the iTunes shared library. Music files in private folders are not included. To play music stored on your Seagate Central device, open iTunes and select Seagate Central from the list of shared libraries. Figure 23: Selecting the Seagate Central Shared Music Library in iTunes iTunes displays the songs in the Seagate Central music library. To add songs to the Seagate Central music library, copy the files to the device. Seagate Central adds the songs to the library the next time it scans the device for new music. Changing the Frequency of New Music Scans By default, Seagate Central scans for new music once every hour. To change how often Seagate Central scans for new music: 1. Log in to your Seagate Central as an administrator. See "Logging In to Your Seagate Central" on page 39. 2. Click the Services tab. 3. Click iTunes. 4. Under Check for new music, select how often you want Seagate Central to scan for new music on the device, and then click Done. Disabling the iTunes Shared Library By default, the shared iTunes library is enabled on your Seagate Central. To disable it, do the following: Seagate Central User Guide 23

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4. Playing Back Your Media
Playing Music Stored on Seagate Central in iTunes
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Note:
Seagate Central includes music in the Public folder in the iTunes shared library. Music files in
private folders are not included.
To play music stored on your Seagate Central device, open iTunes and select Seagate
Central from the list of shared libraries.
iTunes displays the songs in the Seagate Central music library.
To add songs to the Seagate Central music library, copy the files to the device. Seagate
Central adds the songs to the library the next time it scans the device for new music.
Changing the Frequency of New Music Scans
By default, Seagate Central scans for new music once every hour. To change how often
Seagate Central scans for new music:
1.
Log in to your Seagate Central as an administrator. See “Logging In to Your Seagate Central”
on page 39.
2.
Click the
Services
tab.
3.
Click
iTunes
.
4.
Under Check for new music, select how often you want Seagate Central to scan for new
music on the device, and then click
Done
.
Disabling the iTunes Shared Library
By default, the shared iTunes library is enabled on your Seagate Central. To disable it, do the
following:
Figure 23:
Selecting the Seagate Central Shared Music Library in iTunes