Moving music files from laptop to ext HD - iTunes impact?

SuperGrover · 2009-05-19 11:04:40

Hi, I'd appreciate any advice on this... I am buying an external hard drive, mainly to store my music files as the collection is growing. I use iTunes to reference all my music and I have put a lot of work into manually updating artwork, genres, album names, etc. through iTunes. If I move the location of the files from…

19-05-2009 12:04PM

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SuperGrover

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Hi, I'd appreciate any advice on this...

I am buying an external hard drive, mainly to store my music files as the collection is growing.

I use iTunes to reference all my music and I have put a lot of work into manually updating artwork, genres, album names, etc. through iTunes.

If I move the location of the files from laptop to HD, will I lose all this? Do I have to start again?

Is there a tracker tool of some sort that I can use or will iTunes be able to follow across?

Thanks in advance for any info...

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#2 19-05-2009 12:12PM

melekalikimaka

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copy tracks over, wipe the lib and start again by adding from the external, all metadata will be saved

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#3 19-05-2009 02:09PM

SuperGrover

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Thanks kindly

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