Firewire 800 drive and itunes

Question

i just bought a firewire drive because my itunes library is so large i cannot put any more music on. Once I install this drive how do I move over all my music and how do i set it up so when i open itunes or import a new cd it only goes thru the firewire drive?

Answer 1

First.................BACK UP ALL YOUR MUSIC
now you can play around, moving your iTunes library is pretty simple.
In Prefernces>Advanced there's a box at the top showing the 'iTunes music folder location' and a button next to it saying 'change'.
Now, before you change the iTunes music folder (basically your librabry) you need to move the actual files. So create a folder your external hard drive ('music' or something) then find your current iTunes folder in Home>Music. In that folder there are 3 files you have to move; the 'iTunes music' folder, the 'iTunes Library' file and the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file.
The Folder has all your music and the other two contain information such as playlists.
It's as simple as moving (not copying, unless you want to for safe keeping) those 3 things (make sure iTunes is closed) to your external drive, to the folder you created earlier. When that done re-open iTunes go to Preferences>Advanced click to Change button up the top. That will open up the Finder Browser, just navigate to that folder on your external drive and select it. Make sure you select the actual folder, not the whole external hard drive OR the contents of the folder.
Quit and re-open iTunes all your music should be back to normal, and any songs you import or add from now on will go into the music folder on the external HD.