Transplanting Music

Today, I wanted to organise my hard drive. OK, so what if it’s much better organised than those of others I know…I wanna make it better! So, I start with my music. I use iTunes, and the setting ‘Copy All Music To iTunes Library’ is checked. So that means that there is a lot of duplicate music lying around, as even my bro uses iTunes. So, I can’t delete downloaded music from it’s spot, as my bro will mince me.

I come up with a simple plan – to fuse the 2 libraries. I would copy the music to a ‘D:Music’ and everyone can access it from there. It seems simple, but is not. The fact of the matter is that I keep everything organised in my library – ratings, album art and all that. My IDv3 tags are full. My favourite songs even have lyrics!

You’ll say, you NUT, why don’t you just copy all your music to another place, delete the songs and add the new ones? Well…I’d lose all my ratings and a few more iTunes centric stuff. So, I devise a simple, yet effective plan.

I went to the ‘Preferences’ in iTunes, and went to the Advanced tab. In the iTunes library path, I changed it to the path I wanted. Then, I went to the ‘Advanced’ main menu (not tab), and clicked Consolidate Library. That copies all music to the iTunes Library Folder i.e. the folder I wanted. Then, I proceeded to delete the music from the old path…in My Music. Quite a simple affair.

Now, I’ll do the same for bro, and then we can cut down on hard drive space usage, coz’ I’m starting to feel the squeeze with 160GB, coz’ I’ve got movies, games and music, and a lot of warez. Will need to upgade soon…