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    iTunes on SSD, music on external HDD?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Jarhead, Jul 16, 2011.

  1. Jarhead

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    I have recently gained access to my old hard drive (from my dead laptop) and I want to have a setup on my new laptop where I have the iTunes application installed on the SSD (so as to boot quicker, etc) and have all my music on a different drive (so as to not waste my SSD space).

    It's probably a simple thing to do, or maybe not; I've always had everything on one drive before. Have any of you done a setup like I'm describing and does it work?
     
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    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're looking to accomplish, all you need to do is tell iTunes establish that your library is on the external drive. It's in the advanced portion of the preferences menu. Change the directory to whatever you want on the external drive, and you should be good to go from there.
     
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  3. Jarhead

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    Okay, cool. i'm wondering if iTunes would still remember the location of the music, since I'll be switching external drives often (I have a Thermaltake Blacx and two laptop drives). Of course, I'll give each drive a different drive letter.
     
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    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    iTunes won't have access to the library, and won't play the songs, while the incorrect external drive is connected. Other than that, I don't see how you'd have a problem.

    I, personally, do not use iTunes. I left it behind 6 months ago when I realized that Winamp has MUCH better codecs for playback. Of the three (iTunes, MediaMonkey, and Winamp), iTunes has the worst sound quality. Of course this was judged by my ears, so take it with a grain of salt.

    MediaMonkey is a fanastic library management program and Wimamp yields fantastic playback quality. Regardless, you shouldn't have issues having iTunes on your SSD and your music library on an external drive. I've done that with my lossless files and MediaMonkey/Winamp. So long as the correct drive is connected, everything works fine.
     
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    should work just fine. but i have all my stuff i use on my ssd => no external itunes setup (i still use itunes for the shopping, windows media player/windows media center for the rest).

    should work just fine.
     
    davepermen, Jul 17, 2011
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    Thanks everyone for the help :) . I wanted to make sure that it works since I am really into my music and would really suck if I had to redownload all ~1500 songs on my 1.5Mbps DSL connection >.<
     
    Jarhead, Jul 17, 2011
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