Exporting music from my Itune program to an external hard drive
I have a large external hard drive built by iomega. I have about 500 gigs of music in the AIFF format. I would like to burn new music from CDs or from Itunes and export it to the external hard drive.
I want this external hard drive to be my main library. As I add and move music to my Ipod, I want to use Itunes on by laptop.
How can I do that?
How can I make sure that the music that I download is in the AIFF format?
Thank You
Jim Hoyt
I want this external hard drive to be my main library. As I add and move music to my Ipod, I want to use Itunes on by laptop. How can I do that?
If you go to the "Advanced" section of the iTunes preferences, you can specify a location for your media folder. That's where new music goes. If you want to copy your current music to that folder, after you specify it in the preferences screen, you can select "Library" - "Organize" from the "File" menu (in iTunes 9) and then click on the organize button. That will copy music to your new external drive. Once it's done that, you can go back in Explorer and (a) confirm you r music was copied like you wanted it to; and (b) remove the music from your laptop's hard drive, now that it's on your external drive.
How can I make sure that the music that I download is in the AIFF format?
If you mean music that you extract from your CDs, go to the "General" section of "Preferences" and click on "Import Settings".
If you mean the music that you purchase from iTunes Store or other online services, you'll have to use whatever file format they offer. You can convert it to other formats, but you'll possibly lose quality when you do that (and you certainly won't gain quality).
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