paul44birch;554657 Wrote: > Thanks P > > Just to clarify, I should set up a new ITunes library within the > external hard drive and then point to that new location?
You have several approaches here depending on your goals. If you simply want ONE itunes library, but now want it located on your external harddrive, you don't really need the separate library function (ie., holding shift down when you start itunes allows you to select different libraries). If this is the case I'd do the following: 1. copy all your music to a directory on the external drive (e.g., E:\MUSIC) Underneath this will be all the normal subdirectories (artists & albums). 2. remove all songs from your itunes library (select and delete). But do NOT allow it to send to recycle bin (this would delete the files and you don't want to do that). So at this point you'll have an empty itunes library but a copy of all your music on both your local drive and the new external drive. You might not want to do it this way if you've saved a lot of ratings and statistics that you want to preserve. There are other approaches that can save these ratings and recently played stats if you desire to do that. 3. Go into itunes, preferences, advanced and change your music library location to this new drive (E:\music). Itunes will then scan all these files and this becomes your main library. When it is done, you'll see all your music now in the itunes library. 4. keep in mind that if you open itunes WITHOUT the external drive being attached (before you start itunes), you'll see the music, but it won't play. And itunes may sometimes 'forget' that your library is E:\music now. So you might have to go to preferences/advanced to reset library location if you ever find that itunes is not finding your files. NOTE: if you do in fact want to keep separate libraries, as suggested you can do this by holding down the shift key as you start itunes. For example, you might want to have DAD, MOM, KIDS libraries. These can all point to the same music files (i.e., a single set of files), but you can make different decisions about which of those files are added to the library, whether they are checked (to play) or not, playlists, etc. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79643 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
