Splitting music files between internal and external HDs

I have a 300Gb external hard drive that I primarily use for storage/backup of rarely accessed files. I have seen a number of topics about moving your entire library to an external drive, but that's not what I want. I leave my external drive at home when I travel, and I don't want to leave all my music at home when I do.
Is there any way to set up iTunes so that part of my music library -- say, new/frequently accessed files reside on my PowerBook's HD and older files sit on the external HD? (Obviously I wouldn't ask iTunes to make the decision of what files go where, I would do that myself.)
Thanks!

mitya
Is there any way to set up iTunes so that part of my music library -- say, new/frequently accessed files reside on my PowerBook's HD and older files sit on the external HD?
No, in a word. But you could create a second library on the external HD and switch between them as you need. You already have a link to the iTunes Library Manager.
Regards
TD

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