[iBook] external itunes music library

[Angus Wallace]

Hi Alex,

Yeah - I guess that's an option too, but I think that would make  
other hassles. Based on your setup, I have a few questions:

1) If you wanted to import pre-ripped music from a cd (i.e. from a cd  
of mp3s), would it still copy that to the iTunes library?
2) How do you specify where you want to rip an audio cd to?
3) If you had some music in your internal HD, how would you go about  
moving it to your external HD?
4) Isn't it a pain when you go to listen to a song and it's not  
there? ;-)

It definitely seems worth considering - sometimes simple solutions  
are the best ones..

Thanks for your reply!
-Angus

On 22/06/2005, at 9:30 PM, 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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