Consolidating library external hard drive

I like using i Tunes for Mac, but I don’t like keeping all my music on my local disk.When you have a 128 GB Mac Book and are juggling several games with a Windows VM for jailbreak articles, it gets cramped.In this how-to guide, I’ll look at moving your i Tunes library to a different location on your own computer, restoring from your i Pod, and how to set up your i Tunes library to stay in sync with the other Macs in your household.Your i Tunes library sits, by default, in your Music folder inside your Home Folder.By design, the user manages their content through i Tunes, and ideally never even looks at the underlying file system, much less worries about moving files around.In this scenario, i Tunes can even handle the relocation of the library for you, making the entire process quite seamless.

Now, hold down the Option (alt) key and open i Tunes. Select “Choose Library” and navigate to your external drive in the file picker.In 2007, nearly four years after the Music Store launch, Steve Jobs wrote “Thoughts On Music”, in which he called upon record labels to abandon the DRM strategy:“Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats.In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players.i Tunes doesn’t make it entirely easy to change the location of your media or set it up to share between computers.Many people struggle with duplicate files, or with i Tunes being unable to find the location of your music after moving it around.