Speaking of music (I know we weren’t speaking of music, but I was in the next post to last, and that created a thought process. And I might as well shake things up here a little bit) …<\/p>\n
I use Apple’s iTunes for my music player on my PC. On 6.0.5 for Windows, which is the current version. It isn’t the best system in the world, and like most Mac ports to Windows there some oddities about how it behaves, but it works pretty well and pretty much meets all my needs. I don’t buy music online, just rip the CDs I own myself, and I do it to MP3, so some of the objections some folks have to iTunes are moot in that way.<\/p>\n
I do like the integrated database with it, rather than simply treating everything as a collection of MP3 files and having to read all the internal MP3 data on them. I like tracking composers as well as artists, and sorting and searching by eleventy different criteria. I like making different playlists.<\/p>\n
Here’s my main problem.<\/p>\n
I have 7,862 music tracks in my iTunes library. That’s our entire CD collection, and it represents 17.5 days worth of audio, for a total of 19.72Gb. Which takes a huge chunk out of my hard drive (and since it’s a company computer, I can’t exactly ask for a new hard drive to fit my music better).<\/p>\n
What I’d like to be able to do is migrate some of my music over to another drive. I even have an external drive I can use for the purpose. I’d like it to be accessible when the drive is plugged in, inaccessible when it’s not. Unfortunately, if iTunes has a way to split the library that way, I’ve not been able to find anything to that effect. Heck, from what I’ve been able to read, it’s a dicey proposition to put your iTunes library as a whole onto an external drive, or move it to some
\nplace other than where it currently is.<\/p>\n
If someone has a reasonable way to handle this, please offer up your suggestions. I’m all ears, at least when it comes to music.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
(listening to: “String Serenade E major Op. 22 (Pro Arte Munich) – Allegro vivace” from <\/i>Classic Gold – Dvorak)
\n(listening to: Riepl, Kevin, “CoV Theme” from <\/i>City of Villains)<\/p>\n
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