Comments on: Relocating and Expanding your iTunes Library http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/ Mac Apps, Reviews, Previews, Interviews, and Giveaways. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:29 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jake Roby http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/comment-page-1/#comment-52882 Jake Roby Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:21:35 +0000 http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/#comment-52882 I just needed to reply to some of the comments on this page... This article was written for people with large music/video libraries... My library is currently at 200GB (60 GB Music, 50 GB Movies, 70 GB TV Shows, 20 GB Podcasts). For this reason, i obviously cannot use either A) my computer's hard drive or B) my ipod (both of which are only 160 GB), and thus I keep all my itunes library on an external 320 GB drive. In regards to Jeremy: Get a lightweight bus powered drive. Mine is 320 GB, fits in the palm of my hand, and is bus powered... its perfect. Whenever I bring my laptop with me, i just grab the hard drive too... no problem! Lastly, one issue with the article. So many people complain that USB 2.0 isn't good enough and that Firewire is a "must"... but all three of my harddrives are functioning off of USB 2.0 (even the one with firewire compatibility). I mean, I understand that fire wire is indeed faster, but I haven't experienced any problems with my drives where i was thinking "OMG why is this taking so longgggg!!!".... if anything, there's sometimes a small delay when starting a new file, but once i hit play i can leave itunes running for hours without any problems... it doesn't seem worth the extra money to switch to firewire just yet when there's bound to be something far better coming out in the near future... But that's just my opinion.... I just needed to reply to some of the comments on this page…

This article was written for people with large music/video libraries… My library is currently at 200GB (60 GB Music, 50 GB Movies, 70 GB TV Shows, 20 GB Podcasts). For this reason, i obviously cannot use either A) my computer’s hard drive or B) my ipod (both of which are only 160 GB), and thus I keep all my itunes library on an external 320 GB drive.

In regards to Jeremy:

Get a lightweight bus powered drive. Mine is 320 GB, fits in the palm of my hand, and is bus powered… its perfect. Whenever I bring my laptop with me, i just grab the hard drive too… no problem!

Lastly, one issue with the article.

So many people complain that USB 2.0 isn’t good enough and that Firewire is a “must”… but all three of my harddrives are functioning off of USB 2.0 (even the one with firewire compatibility). I mean, I understand that fire wire is indeed faster, but I haven’t experienced any problems with my drives where i was thinking “OMG why is this taking so longgggg!!!”…. if anything, there’s sometimes a small delay when starting a new file, but once i hit play i can leave itunes running for hours without any problems… it doesn’t seem worth the extra money to switch to firewire just yet when there’s bound to be something far better coming out in the near future…

But that’s just my opinion….

]]> By: Jacob http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/comment-page-1/#comment-10341 Jacob Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:04:41 +0000 http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/#comment-10341 thats what ipod's are for... i don't know if this is new or what... but i recently felt like trying this just for sh**tz and gigglez... and as far as i can tell, it's working just fine... probably due to a ipod update that came around at one point or another... average bitrate can now go as high as 1000... or so it seems at least... thats what ipod’s are for…

i don’t know if this is new or what… but i recently felt like trying this just for sh**tz and gigglez… and as far as i can tell, it’s working just fine… probably due to a ipod update that came around at one point or another…

average bitrate can now go as high as 1000… or so it seems at least…

]]> By: Jeremy http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/comment-page-1/#comment-2753 Jeremy Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:40:36 +0000 http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/#comment-2753 I have my itunes music on my external hard drive because it is way to large for my powerbooks hard drive. It really does suck not having my music when I travel. I have my itunes music on my external hard drive because it is way to large for my powerbooks hard drive. It really does suck not having my music when I travel.

]]> By: Alec Feld http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/comment-page-1/#comment-2743 Alec Feld Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:31:38 +0000 http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/#comment-2743 I'd rather keep all my content on my laptop's hard drive, so I can have it wherever I go. I’d rather keep all my content on my laptop’s hard drive, so I can have it wherever I go.

]]> By: Greg http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/comment-page-1/#comment-2740 Greg Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:33:39 +0000 http://macapper.com/2007/04/13/relocating-and-expanding-your-itunes-library/#comment-2740 Nice article Nice article

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