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Off-loading iTunes 'data'..
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<blockquote data-quote="djames42" data-source="post: 386663" data-attributes="member: 13241"><p>If you want to store it "on-line" (i.e. on an external drive), you can tell iTunes to not manage your music. You can then move your movies+audiobooks to another drive, add them back to your iTunes library, and they'll be available to you, just not in your ~/Music folder.</p><p></p><p>...but since you say you want to keep your external drive for backups/time machine, you can simply create playlists containing the items you want to burn to DVD media. I believe that iTunes will allow spanning (meaning you can burn your entire playlist even if it takes multiple disks), but I'm not sure.</p><p></p><p>The great thing about using iTunes to back up your media is that the metadata is saved along with the files: when you insert your DVD, iTunes will recognise it and it will show up in iTunes just as it did before, complete with any ratings, last played and number of times played (although obviously this information will not be updated going forward).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djames42, post: 386663, member: 13241"] If you want to store it "on-line" (i.e. on an external drive), you can tell iTunes to not manage your music. You can then move your movies+audiobooks to another drive, add them back to your iTunes library, and they'll be available to you, just not in your ~/Music folder. ...but since you say you want to keep your external drive for backups/time machine, you can simply create playlists containing the items you want to burn to DVD media. I believe that iTunes will allow spanning (meaning you can burn your entire playlist even if it takes multiple disks), but I'm not sure. The great thing about using iTunes to back up your media is that the metadata is saved along with the files: when you insert your DVD, iTunes will recognise it and it will show up in iTunes just as it did before, complete with any ratings, last played and number of times played (although obviously this information will not be updated going forward). [/QUOTE]
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