[iBook] external itunes music library

[R. Hefner]

Hi Alex,
I'd like to put some of my music on my external drive. Can you explain a 
little more about your set up? What do you mean about not letting iTunes 
manage the music files in the preferance panel?
Thanks,
Ronda

Alexandre Leroux wrote:
> Hi Angus,
> 
> Ok, a month later, but who knows, you might still be looking for clues! :-)
> 
> It seems I have the same setup as you. Music on my internal HD and
> music on an external HD (plus an iPod). I fail to see why you manage
> multiple libraries. I simply have only one iTunes library, on the
> internal HD, that refers to all my music. (Of course, this means,
> unless you want all the music on the external HD and none on the
> internal one, you cannot let iTunes manage your music files in the
> preference panel.) This is very convenient to me. I never have to
> switch libraries. If my external HD is not plugged in, iTunes will
> simply not find the file. When I'll plug back my external HD, iTunes
> will find all my music at once. Works perfectly.
> 
> However, I know many have (& had) problems with managing libraries,
> multiple or not. There is a software (5$) that can help you manage
> multiple libraries (I don't know the name) but never had to use it
> since the way explained above works well for me.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> On 5/26/05, Angus Wallace <angus.wallace at flinders.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I have a technical question.
>>
>>I have more music than I want to keep on my laptop, so I have a
>>second iTunes music library located on a partition of an external
>>hard disk. This means that I can switch which music library iTunes is
>>using, to access the larger library when the external disk is connected.
>>
>>But this is a bit of a hassle...
>>
>>I've noticed what happens when I burn a data DVD from iTunes. The
>>disk has folders corresponding to album names, and in the root of the
>>disk is a file, ContentsDB.xml that is visible only in Terminal.app
>>(it's hidden in Finder).
>>
>>When such a disk is inserted, itunes automatically recognizes it as a
>>music library, and mounts it - much like an iPod.
>>
>>I postulate that if I did such a thing with my external music
>>collection, it would automount in iTunes whenever it was connected,
>>and I wouldn't need to switch libraries all the time.
>>
>>Does anyone know anything about such a thing? Has it been done
>>before? Any thoughts?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>-Angus
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