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Itunes library to multilple drive?
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Is it possible to have Itunes reference multiple drives (simultaneously)? I'm trying to manage my large library between my Ibook's internal (lowlly 20gig) and an external firewire drive. I'd like to be able to digitize music to either drive and even move songs between them.
Tim
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Originally posted by Powaqqatsi:
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is it just me or doesn't this seem like something Apple could get togther? I can't be alone in this situation. If I dig'd all my collection I'd have around 40 gig's worth of stuff. Some kind of drive management would be handy. On top of the size issue. It would be cool to have it on an external FW and just plug it in on whatever system you happen to be at (ie work/home/laptop/desktop etc).
Tim
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I'm not sure it's really that big a concern.
I too am in the boat of having more music than I could even fit on my TiBook 500's 20Gig drive - instead it's on an external 120Gig drive. This doesn't present a problem though - I can always rip music onto my TiBook hard drive and then consolidate to the external drive later if need be, and I've got my iPod to take music with me on the go....
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Originally posted by cpac:
I'm not sure it's really that big a concern.
I too am in the boat of having more music than I could even fit on my TiBook 500's 20Gig drive - instead it's on an external 120Gig drive. This doesn't present a problem though - I can always rip music onto my TiBook hard drive and then consolidate to the external drive later if need be, and I've got my iPod to take music with me on the go....
I'm in the same situation. 40GB internal HD on my TiBook and 160GB external FW HD. I would also like something like T Reisig wants. I have an iPod mini so I can't have all of my music with me at once (I bought a mini because not even the 40GB ipod is enough for me and the mini is soo much smaller, the normal iPod is too big for me)
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It should be possible. You will just have to take a more manual approach to organizing your library. In the preferences, make sure that iTunes does not automatically copy your music files to your library folder. Now, organize your music manually before you import them into your master playlist. Then, when you add a song to your playlist, it will remain in its original location. You can leave the song on your internal drive or place it on your external drive.
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Just to second the above - it is more than possible. Just select a bunch of artist names, copy them to your secondary drive and then make symlinks to the original iTunes tree. Check your permissions. Yeah it isn't "easy" but it isn't that difficult. It's not that much harder than having all users on the computer use the same iTunes directory via symlinks.
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