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

  • 19-05-2009 12:04PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭


    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...


Comments

  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭SuperGrover


    Thanks kindly


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