Add iTunes music from MacBook laptop to raspberry pi server

[drmagoo]

Your only real option with PMS on your Pi is to export your iTunes media to your external HDD and create a new Music Library in PMS.

There are many threads asking a similar question regarding the iTunes import “available” in PMS. The answer is always the same: PMS supports some kind of one-time iTunes Library import on Mac and Windows, but not on Linux. Please read e.g.:

Adding an iTunes Library in 2020

Server Version#: 1.16.5.1552 Player Version#: Hi all, I do have Plex running on my Synology NAS. My iTunes library is as well located on this NAS because SONOS accesses it perfectly from there. Everything I found on the Internet regarding importing from iTunes seems to refer to former versions of Plex. The official FAQ page refers to “channels” - something that I can’t find on my settingins page. Instead there is an iTunes Plugin under “Plugins” which I activated along with the XML path. Sti…

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Which way to do Itunes Integration

I am running Plex on a Synology DS918+ NAS. I have noticed that there is a Synology App for running Itunes Server. I also notice that Plex has a radio button under settings/plugins - “enable itunes plugin” So, I see a couple of ways of doing this - I still want to have access to everything via Plex, but also want music and video retrievable via itunes. Of course, all of this is so that I can then use my Series of Amazon Alexas around the house to play music out of the Itunes Library Option …