when is apple going to allow us to cart our music around on the macbook pro drive and have a legitimate video library we can consolidate to for video?

Edd

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when is apple going to allow us to cart our music around on the macbook pro drive and have a legitimate video library we can consolidate to for video?

Edd

You can add songs or videos that are on an external disk (or in another folder on your internal disk) to the iTunes Library without moving them. In fact, you've been able to do that for a long time. In iTunes' preferences, click on Advanced->General, then unclick the box that says, "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library." If that's not what you mean, please be clearer, as it's confusing as to what a "legitimate video library" might be.

Or just drag video content in iTunes while holding "option". It then will not copy into the designated iTunes folder on your laptop (if that's what you chose as default in the iTunes prefs). It will leave the files where they are (on your external drive) while a normal import of music will still be copied to your normal iTunes Library on your laptop.

Hope I make sense here.

What he means, I think, is having two separate libraries, one for music and one for video, so that you could leave your HDspace-hogging video at home yet still bring your music along with you.

Personally, I think that's being pretty spoiled, to be mad at Apple for not making things even more complicated. Just don't click the box that says, "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library", put your music on the laptop and video on the external and then tell itunes where each is. Don't want to get too lazy now...