LJ Genie really *does* work! Now: iTunes.
Dec. 21st, 2004 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitchen_kinkSo I'll try to explain this simply yet thoroughly, because if I confuse myself, I'm *sure* to confuse others.
Here's what I want:
I run iTunes on Mac OS X. I recently bought a huge mother external hard drive. I would like to put my entire music collection on this hard drive, so that whenever the drive is plugged in, I can access all of my music that way.
However, I also wish to keep a selection of my music on my laptop's hard drive, so that I can take my very favorite stuff with me whereever I go.
The problem:
The easiest way to get my music onto the external hard drive would appear to be to tell iTunes to locate my iTunes music folder on the external hard drive rather than on the laptop's hard drive, then begin importing the CDs into iTunes. However, I worry that doing that would prevent my laptop from being able to access the music on its own hard drive when the external one is not plugged in, or at least that it would confuse it.
The question:
Should I move my iTunes music folder to the external drive, and if so, should I keep another version of the same folder on my laptop? If not, what *should* I do?
Here's what I want:
I run iTunes on Mac OS X. I recently bought a huge mother external hard drive. I would like to put my entire music collection on this hard drive, so that whenever the drive is plugged in, I can access all of my music that way.
However, I also wish to keep a selection of my music on my laptop's hard drive, so that I can take my very favorite stuff with me whereever I go.
The problem:
The easiest way to get my music onto the external hard drive would appear to be to tell iTunes to locate my iTunes music folder on the external hard drive rather than on the laptop's hard drive, then begin importing the CDs into iTunes. However, I worry that doing that would prevent my laptop from being able to access the music on its own hard drive when the external one is not plugged in, or at least that it would confuse it.
The question:
Should I move my iTunes music folder to the external drive, and if so, should I keep another version of the same folder on my laptop? If not, what *should* I do?
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Date: 2004-12-21 11:21 am (UTC)I take it that laptop is not the "home" machine for the iPod? Otherwise, it should transfer that music as well. I'd check out some of the shareware/freeware out there as I'm sure this problem isn't unique. :-)
Of course, if you want to write your own, go for it! I haven't bought anything from iTMS so I never run into this particular issue, although I do have music in various places so the scripts you pointed out might solve my problem and the shareware fee is mighty reasonable.
Thanks.
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Date: 2004-12-21 12:20 pm (UTC)It's been a while since i've dug through ipod/itunes software - if i find something, then yah, there's no need to write it.