[iBook] external itunes music library

[Alexandre Leroux]

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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