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Where do you store your MP3's?
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Just wondering where folks that own PowerBooks keep their MP3/AAC music files (aside from the obvious place - on their iPod), do you keep your music on the PowerBooks internal HDD or on an external HDD to save valuable space and use the internal for other things?
Oh and sorry if this has been posted before. Search didn't turn up much related to this question.
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Last edited by Leo the 3rd; Sep 23, 2004 at 09:38 AM.
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The default location for the iTunes Library,
/Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music
Internal Powerbook HD, synced with iPod.
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Last edited by RayX; Sep 26, 2004 at 12:39 AM.
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I've kept my music on an external Firewire drive for a few years now... I like to be ready for a system format at any time so I like to keep backups off my main disks 
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I transferred 14GB of music from my Windows XP machine to my new PowerBook over the course of.. 4 hours I forget. And then most of those were already on my iPod.
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I have 18GB on my HD - which is crazy since I don`t listen to it.
I backed up everything on DVD`s and an external HD.
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I have a great deal of music, so I keep it on an external firewire hard disk.
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I keep it on my wife's Pismo and an external HD. Sometimes I really need that extra 15 GB of space.
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Hi,
I kept my mp3's in two places. An external firewire disk at home and a portable firewire disk which i use at work....
I syncronize both once a week....
best regards
Guigo
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internal hard drive on my G4 sawtooth server. I sync my ipod to the server when I want to change the music. I also stream the itunes wirelessly to the powerbook when I want to listen during the day, and have an extension lead connected to the hifi that I just plug into the powerbook to feed the music to the big speakers.
When I want to really listen to the music, I pull the cd's off the shelf.
Have about 60Gb on the hard drive.
J.
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External HD (30GB Pocket HD)
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External 250 Firewire HD, and on my iPod.
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When I had a smalller HD, I kept my music on an ext. hard drive.
Now I have enough space to keep it on my PowerBook.
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I keep my music in "/Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music", but I also have a backup on my external 500GB FW800 disk!
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Good question. I was thinking about this the other day, and how I should go back to using an external drive for my music. Right now, I keep my iTunes Music Library on my PowerBook. It's about 27 GB and takes approximately an hour to copy via FW Target Disk mode to copy from my tower. I could really use the extra space.
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default location on internal drive. (I've got only 10GB of music, so there's plenty of space left.)
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I've got a tower at home, so most of my music goes there. I've got a couple gig on the Powerbook, but prolly only 10% of what's on the tower.
As far as directories, I keep my MP3s (and lately AACs) on a seperate partition, so all users can get to them.
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6 Gigs on a SCSI fileserver rig with three physical volumes connected via Ethernet to my Tibook...
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Originally posted by RayX:
The default location for the iTunes Library,
/Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music
Yep me too
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Originally posted by David Hagan:
Good question. I was thinking about this the other day, and how I should go back to using an external drive for my music. Right now, I keep my iTunes Music Library on my PowerBook. It's about 27 GB and takes approximately an hour to copy via FW Target Disk mode to copy from my tower. I could really use the extra space.
In the advance tab of your iTunes preference, change the iTunes Music Folder Location. Change, point it to your external drive. Exit out of preferences and Click on Advance > Consolidate Library.. This will copy all you music to the External HD and update your iTunes Library, in your PB, to the new location of your songs, in your External HD.
I don't remember if it deletes the files in the old folder location after consolidating. I don't think it does.
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I store mine on a home grown FreeBSD 1TB fileserver. Since at home, I have gigabit ethernet, synching songs with iTunes is not slow at all.
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At the moment I keep my music on the internal HD of my PowerBooks since I'm lazy in hunting down a silly firewire cable for music syncing on my iPod... as a student at a constant cramfest uni I can't waste time.  
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external HD with backups on DVD-R/W discs.
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Originally posted by Rooney:
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