Computer question

[zthumper 10+ year member]

Well here's a quick question for you computer people. I have around 20 GB of music on my computer (in itunes) and it starting to get full becuase my computer is a piece of crap. Well I was wondering if there was any way to get an external harddrive or whatever and store all my music on it, but still be able to play it from itunes with out the hassle. If so could you give me some products to look at, and I want to use this for my laptop as well. Thanks.

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[fbi90909 5,000+ posts]

http://hifiblog.com/past/2006/05/11/howto-move-your-itunes-music-while-preserving-library-data-when-you-dont-let-itunes-manage-your-music-library/

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

should be fairly easy

 

[zthumper 10+ year member]

I'm pretty sure I know how to move the files, but what you do suggest I use to put them in?

 

[qtipextra 5,000+ posts]

A folder thats says music perhaps? I don't use itunes so I don't know what it is like, but I have all of my music organized: Main folder called Music, then broken down into artist, then album, and each file is named "Artist - Songname". Then I just drag the folder Music into my winamp and I'm good to go.

 

[zthumper 10+ year member]

Nah I'm talking about like an external hard drive.....I want to get all of the music off of my computer and into that....

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

hehe

 

[jdc753 10+ year member]

A folder thats says music perhaps? I don't use itunes so I don't know what it is like, but I have all of my music organized: Main folder called Music, then broken down into artist, then album, and each file is named "Artist - Songname". Then I just drag the folder Music into my winamp and I'm good to go.

Winamp FTW, and I am just as anal about the song title, I have hours upon hours of renaming files so that they fit that "artist - songname" format.

I don't know too much about iTunes used it maybe twice, but should be able to find where it normally accesses your music, cut that folder and paste it to the new hard drive and then there should be a place in the iTunes settings or options where you can direct it to the folder where the music is found. So if before it looked like

C:\Program Files\iTunes\music

and your new HD is labeled as F and you drop your iTunes music folder right at the top of the HD the new path for your music would be

F:\music

Hope this helps

 

[qtipextra 5,000+ posts]

Nah I'm talking about like an external hard drive.....I want to get all of the music off of my computer and into that....

Find the destination folder of all the music, drag it onto the new drive. It's quite easy

 

[zthumper 10+ year member]

Let's try this again....What kind of external hard drive should I get? I have no clue about them at all.

 

[qtipextra 5,000+ posts]

Any external drive. You can get a 2.5" laptop drive and a USB external case for it, or you can get a 3.5" drive with external case but 3.5" requires external power. I have an 80gb Toshiba 2.5" dirive in external enclosure, it is great for extra storage/backup. Also have a 60gb model in the Durango for my music source

 

[thatkidbob 10+ year member]

depends... does your computer have firewire or USB2.0?

If it DOESN'T, get something like this external SATA drive from Lacie, because it comes with it's own PCI card.

If it DOES, you can either build your own by picking out an enclosure and HD you like, or get something like this that comes prebuilt...