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Old 07-19-2009, 09:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Yeah, how can I move iTunes from my computer hard drive to my external hard drive, without f*cking anything up? I can't delete the iTunes in my comp hard drive because it's so full that I essentially can't even delete anything from it.

I have an ex hard drive that I keep my songs in, but my computer hard drive is pretty much full, and even if I add songs that are only stored in the ex hard drive to iTunes, it still seems to take up space in my comp hard drive and at this point I can't save anything on iTunes.
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Old 07-19-2009, 09:58 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Heh, I think I had spyware because I used that piece of sh*t Kazaa. I think that's what's been causing my MB to deplete, I just deleted the kazaa folder and somehow that's restored a whole GB of memory, and it certainly didn't have THAT many songs in it.

Still I've lost some of my music that I'll have to restore now.
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Old 07-19-2009, 02:21 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Get the FUCK off of Itunes, it's a music collectors worst enemy. I use MediaMonkey, but there are tons of alternate programs that run much better then itunes could dream of- just less pretty. I would take all your music and make sure it's in your hard drive, delete Itunes, and get a new music manager. If Itunes hasn't screwed you yet your bound to get it. Also I would consider getting some back-up for all your music and not just putting it in your hard drive, maybe you can plug the hard drive into another computer and keep all your files in that computers internal hard drive as backup. Maybe just .zip everything and send it to friends, but external drives lose information more often then internal ones do. Keeping things internally takes up too much space though, so meh.

Also try exporting your palylist or instead of editing id3 tags in itunes editing the actual files themselves. Mediamonkey has automatic id3 tagging. =))
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No I'm not switching to anything else.

5000 music files, are you freaking kidding me?

I still have most of the song files in the comp hard drive, I have them on an ex hard drive since I'll probably get a new computer eventually.
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No I'm not switching to anything else.

5000 music files, are you freaking kidding me?

I still have most of the song files in the comp hard drive, I have them on an ex hard drive since I'll probably get a new computer eventually.
Yeah, that's the problem, I procrastinated on it to. Once I hit 120Gb my Itunes would barely move it was so slow, so I had to transfer every single file, one discography at a time, and in segments too. Took weeks but it was worth it. I actually just finished a few days ago. But to be honest while I was on itunes I had TERRIBLE id3 tags, I actually deleted about 40Gb's because the discographies were so awful looking it wasn't even worth it. I had to re-download each one I had including Brian Eno, The Fall and Frank Zappa >=
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Transfer iPod to computer Copy iPod to iTunes Backup iPod to PC

Whenever my computer crashed and I lost all my precious music gone with it, I still had it all on my ipod though, but because I didn't buy all 3,000 songs off of Itunes I couldn't recover any of the ones that i got off of CDs/downloads.

I stumbled upon this and it allows you to import every song from your ipod to your hard drive.

So all you need to do is download that, follow the steps, and import them to your external hard drive that doesn't have spyware.

And yeah, i used that piece of **** Kazaa before too.
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Yeah, that's the problem, I procrastinated on it to. Once I hit 120Gb my Itunes would barely move it was so slow, so I had to transfer every single file, one discography at a time, and in segments too. Took weeks but it was worth it. I actually just finished a few days ago. But to be honest while I was on itunes I had TERRIBLE id3 tags, I actually deleted about 40Gb's because the discographies were so awful looking it wasn't even worth it. I had to re-download each one I had including Brian Eno, The Fall and Frank Zappa >=
yea. itunes is an amazing power hog. mediamonkey is nice and efficient. and it isnt much of a pain to switch. just uninstall itunes(it won't delete your music). install mediamonkey.then tell mediamonkey to scan your itunes folder. it is also nice for converting stuff and tagging everything. i would never go back to itunes.
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itunes, from what I've heard from PC users, tends to cause a lot of problems that don't seem to be an issue with its native platform. If I owned a PC I would definitely use something else.
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Mine is a PC.

But I'm just too lazy to go through all the trouble of transfering all my files, it would take forever.
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Mine is a PC.

But I'm just too lazy to go through all the trouble of transfering all my files, it would take forever.
you tell mediamonkey: scan drive C and it will organize everything into music folder...its not a pain just start it and go do something else for a bit.
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