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Move iTunes audio files between hard drives via script
Authored by: xianman on Sep 28, '05 04:21:43PM

How I long for the day when I can have multiple libraries in iTunes. I would be so delighted if I could simply keep my favorites on my internal laptop hard drive so they would always be with me. Then when I get home and plug in an external hard drive another library would show up in my iTunes list, as if I simply plugged in an iPod.

This would be such an easy, elegant, Apple-like solution, and I have written Apple a number of times with it. Why are we at iTunes 5.0 and this feature is still not there? What am I missing?

I just had a strange passing thought. Could it be possible to fake an iPod with a disc image? That way you could have say a 60GB disc image on an external drive that when mounted would show up in iTunes as an iPod. I suspect this wouldn't work for one reason or another, although perhaps some enterprising hacker could whip up some kind of iPod emulator.



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Move iTunes audio files between hard drives via script
Authored by: DougAdams on Sep 28, '05 05:32:24PM
Could it be possible to fake an iPod with a disc image?

No, because it's not an iPod and iTunes won't recognize anything but an iPod as an iPod. I know that sounds obvious, but it was a good thought.

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Move iTunes audio files between hard drives via script
Authored by: Kimhill on Sep 29, '05 06:23:37AM
"I would be so delighted if I could simply keep my favorites on my internal laptop hard drive so they would always be with me."

What we really need is a transparent way to keep a subset of the main library on the laptop. The best way, I think, would be the ability to specify that certain playlists are stored on the internal HD. I don't believe there is any good scripting solution to this problem -- Apple would have to help.

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Move iTunes audio files between hard drives via script
Authored by: ratthing on Oct 02, '05 08:00:02AM

That's a really good idea. Treat the laptop similarly to the iPod. The only real issue I can see is, how are you going to push the updates to the laptop? Over the network would be pretty slow (well, I guess compared to my USB 1.0 to my iPod via the Quicksilver, it might be a bit of an improvement :-).

In any case you should submit that to Apple. There is some precendence for this approach--MSft's licensing of Office now acknowledges you may install it on desktop & laptop.

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Move iTunes audio files between hard drives via script
Authored by: Kimhill on Oct 03, '05 08:21:05AM

"how are you going to push the updates to the laptop?"

For me, as for many out there, the laptop is the main computer. So updating both locations is no problem. iTunes would know that it has to replicate certain playlists to two locations.



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