Custom Libraries sadly needed in iTunes

Question

Custom Libraries: iTunes can be greatly improved if the user could create different libraries, instead of all the song being lumped into one large library to develop playlists from. That way iTunes would not become confused with song that labelled Track_1 etc... and screw up your playlists, and iTunes would not lost track of which tracks belong with which playlists. The user would have more control over how to customize iTunes. It's really dumb to force all the tunes into one large cumbersome error prone library. You label each library based on the content, and know where the songs in that library originated much better than the current design.

Answer 1

Oliver,
I think your ideal solution would be to get yourself an iPod and then just keep all you music on the external drive.
Short of that you could try iTunes Library Manager. It's not quite the functionality you seek but might be useful.
Finally, you could choose to not have iTunes keep your Music Folder organized and not copy songs to the Music Folder when you add them to your Library.
This way your Library could be split between the two drives but still all show up in iTunes. I think this option would be kind of a pain to maintain though. Especially when you move something from the external to the iBook. You'd have to manually find it for iTunes after it's moved so it would know where to look.
Matt