[Maciej]

My problem lies within the size of my library. I have a very heft library and it is filling my PowerBook very quickly. I have filled me 80gig drive down to 11 gigs left, and I am seriously contemplating getting an external hard drive in order to facilitative this growing music collection. So my question lies here, can I split my library up, so that I have a majority of music on my external, and a couple gigs still on my internal so that I can carry it with me. I want to be able to have some music on the go, but not necessarily all of it. Is this in any way possible, and would iTunes support it actively? As in, if I had the hard-drive hooked up, but then disconnected it, would the songs on the playlists from the external grey out or anything, not just provide me with the broken link error? Has anyone ever encountered this?

If it matters I am running a 1.25 Ghz 15" PB, with 10.3.5.

Thanks for your support!

[Brad]

Any time I've used iTunes with an external removable drive, the files have always remained with the broken link errors when the drive is unmounted.

I've never seen a better option.

[Maciej]

[torifile]

Originally Posted by Sh0eWax My problem lies within the size of my library. I have a very heft library and it is filling my PowerBook very quickly. I have filled me 80gig drive down to 11 gigs left, and I am seriously contemplating getting an external hard drive in order to facilitative this growing music collection. So my question lies here, can I split my library up, so that I have a majority of music on my external, and a couple gigs still on my internal so that I can carry it with me. I want to be able to have some music on the go, but not necessarily all of it. Is this in any way possible, and would iTunes support it actively? As in, if I had the hard-drive hooked up, but then disconnected it, would the songs on the playlists from the external grey out or anything, not just provide me with the broken link error? Has anyone ever encountered this? If it matters I am running a 1.25 Ghz 15" PB, with 10.3.5. Thanks for your support!

Say hello to iTunes Library Manager.

It works.

[Maciej]

awesome I'll try it. Thanks

[Maciej]

Well, I used it, and it is basically what I want, I would just like it to be more of a plugin, so that I could revert libraries without having to open the program up and stuff.

[torifile]

Originally Posted by Sh0eWax Well, I used it, and it is basically what I want, I would just like it to be more of a plugin, so that I could revert libraries without having to open the program up and stuff.

i know. It's got its drawbacks but it does the job. :/ Not ideal but oh well.... there really should be an easier way to do it.

[Hawk]

Here are my thoughts on this issue.

You have a laptop that has a small amount of music on the internal hard drive. You have an external hard drive that contains all the other music you would have. In my case, I have a software RAID'd pair of 250's. The cool and slick thing would be for iTunes to recognize the external when it's plugged in just as it sees the iPod. Have it show up as a source on the left. That way there wouldn't be a need to switch libraries which doesn't work as well as the iPhoto library manager does.

I'm sure the external could he hacked to be seen like an iPod, but the music on the iPod is not organized in artists folders like the normal library is.

Any thoughts?