Manage iTunes library - move audio files

Question

Hi,
the audio files of my itunes library are stored on two drives. The internal driver and one external music-drive. Since my internal drive is becoming full, I'd like to move some of my files from the internal disk to the external drive. Is there a smart process or tool which supports keeping the link of the moved files?

Answer 1

This is a crude proof of concept that works as a Windows vbs script:
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set iTunesApp = CreateObject("iTunes.Application.1")
Set Tracks = iTunesApp.SelectedTracks
For I = 1 to Tracks.Count
Set Track = Tracks.Item(I)
If Track.Kind = 1 Then
Name = Track.Name
Artist = Track.Artist
Album = Track.Album
TrackPath = Track.Location
Ext=Right(TrackPath,4)
NewPath=Left(TrackPath,Len(TrackPath)-4)
NewPath = InputBox("Edit path/filename for:" & nl & nl & _
"Artist : " & Artist & nl & _
"Album : " & Album & nl & _
"Track : " & Name,"Move Track",NewPath) & Ext
Set F = FSO.GetFile(TrackPath)
F.Move(NewPath)
Track.Location = NewPath
End If
Next
There's no error checking, it processes the currently selected tracks and it needs a new location for each file in turn. It could easliy be changed to work with, for example, the current playlist, and programmed to search for a segment of the path to be replaced with a new value. The basic principle is that you read a track's existing location, create a new one either by text input or by manipulating the value of the current path, move the file to the new location, then update iTunes so that it looks in the correct place. As the track object is never removed from the library all playlist references and other volatile metadata such as playcounts should remain intact.
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