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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1522975"><p>You can have multiple iTunes libraries wherever you want to put them. For example I have my "music" library on my boot drive (for now, thinking of moving it) and a "spoken word" library (which consists of BBC radio recordings, audiobooks, radio dramas, etc and suchlike) on an external drive. You can switch between libraries by opening iTunes with the option key held down (also how you create new libraries); the last one you picked becomes the default until you change it again.</p><p></p><p>Naturally, if you are accessing a given library, the drive its on needs to be mounted, otherwise you get an error message and a chance to change libraries.</p><p></p><p>So, with a little thought towards how you want to organize your music, you could have a compact library on your boot drive and larger libraries on externals that are hooked up when you want them or are at your desk.</p><p></p><p>You can, incidentally, do the same thing with iPhoto libraries. I am in the planning stage of taking my 100GB of pics (across various libraries) and splitting them into years. Only the most recent year will be on my boot drive; the rest will go on the media drive. One thing to remember: Time Machine backup software only backs up the boot drive. Anything on external drives that you want to protect (photos, videos, music etc) will need to also be backed up in some other way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1522975"] You can have multiple iTunes libraries wherever you want to put them. For example I have my "music" library on my boot drive (for now, thinking of moving it) and a "spoken word" library (which consists of BBC radio recordings, audiobooks, radio dramas, etc and suchlike) on an external drive. You can switch between libraries by opening iTunes with the option key held down (also how you create new libraries); the last one you picked becomes the default until you change it again. Naturally, if you are accessing a given library, the drive its on needs to be mounted, otherwise you get an error message and a chance to change libraries. So, with a little thought towards how you want to organize your music, you could have a compact library on your boot drive and larger libraries on externals that are hooked up when you want them or are at your desk. You can, incidentally, do the same thing with iPhoto libraries. I am in the planning stage of taking my 100GB of pics (across various libraries) and splitting them into years. Only the most recent year will be on my boot drive; the rest will go on the media drive. One thing to remember: Time Machine backup software only backs up the boot drive. Anything on external drives that you want to protect (photos, videos, music etc) will need to also be backed up in some other way. [/QUOTE]
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