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Possible to move iTunes Music... but not Podcasts, TV Shows, or Movies?
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Nov 16, 2008, 01:57 AM
 
I currently have an enormous iTunes library. I have about 1 TB of movies which is currently stored on its own hard drive separate from any of my other iTunes media (I'll refer to this drive as "Drive X" from here on out).

Aside from these movies, the rest of my iTunes media (which includes Podcasts, TV Shows, and Music) is currently being stored on a different external hard drive (henceforth referred to as "Drive Y"). "Drive Y" is is also the location of my my iTunes Music Folder (as specified in the iTunes application preferences)

I have about 20 GB worth of music, which is not really that much, and I would like to move this music back into my 'User>Home>Music' folder on my primary internal drive...My reasoning? - I've started using an online backup/synchronization service called SugarSync, which I was hoping to use to do two main things:

1) Create an online backup of my music, and...
2) To allow me to stream this online backed-up music to my iPhone wirelessly, which is one of the services that they offer...

One of the unfortunate downsides of SugarSync is that it's only capable of syncing files that reside inside of the User>Home directory... thus, my rational for wanting to move just my 'Music' to my User>Home>Music directory, and not my Podcasts, TV Shows, or Movies. My goal here would be to do so while somehow leaving my TV Shows and Podcasts (which have an accumulated size of about 200GB) on "Drive Y" and leaving my Movies on "Drive X".

Is such a thing possible (without losing all of iTunes' track specific metadata, such as play-count, etc, etc...??? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

FYI: just for reference, I am using iTunes v8.0)
     
   
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