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<blockquote data-quote="jfeldstein" data-source="post: 896489" data-attributes="member: 76691"><p>I recently moved my music library onto an external drive to free up space. Now I've realized I want some of my music on my computer and some of it archived on the drive so that I can still have it somewhere in my library, but I won't have to deal with plugging the thing in for most of my music. </p><p></p><p>Trouble comes because itunes has a terrible way of managing removable media like this. In fact, it doesn't even try. </p><p></p><p>Currently: iTunes marks "missing" songs with an "!" when it tries to play them. Then I have to go back and play all !'d songs when I have the hard drive plugged in so that they're active again. </p><p></p><p>I'd rather: Songs that are in my archive (On the hard drive) are removed from my library completely when the drive is ejected. That way I only see a list of music that I can play right now. A way to move songs in and out of the archive would also be nice, so I can manage which songs are on my laptop and which are on the external drive easily. </p><p></p><p>is there anything that does this? Or would make this easier?</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p><p>~Jordan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jfeldstein, post: 896489, member: 76691"] I recently moved my music library onto an external drive to free up space. Now I've realized I want some of my music on my computer and some of it archived on the drive so that I can still have it somewhere in my library, but I won't have to deal with plugging the thing in for most of my music. Trouble comes because itunes has a terrible way of managing removable media like this. In fact, it doesn't even try. Currently: iTunes marks "missing" songs with an "!" when it tries to play them. Then I have to go back and play all !'d songs when I have the hard drive plugged in so that they're active again. I'd rather: Songs that are in my archive (On the hard drive) are removed from my library completely when the drive is ejected. That way I only see a list of music that I can play right now. A way to move songs in and out of the archive would also be nice, so I can manage which songs are on my laptop and which are on the external drive easily. is there anything that does this? Or would make this easier? Thanks! ~Jordan [/QUOTE]
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