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Externel Hard Drives. « Posted: 21 October 2011 at 03:04 PM »
Can anyone offer advice concerning external hard drives? My wife bought an iPod recently and I set up an iTunes account for her on the computer. I've been considering getting an iPod myself but this would mean having another account and much more music taking up space. Is it possible to download the iTunes program to an external hard drive, bearing in mind that to use the iTunes music store I'd need the internet. In my clumsy way I'm asking if the internet can be accessed through a connected external hard drive.
One last question (d'you wanna bet?), do you just plug the hard drive in and off you go or is it more involved than that?
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Re: Externel Hard Drives. « Reply #1 Posted: 21 October 2011 at 03:16 PM »
As far as I know it's not possible because iTunes also installs a few other utilities, as well as keeping the metadata for your songs in another different place on your computer. The only way would be to have a whole operating system installed on the hard drive.

You can set iTunes to store your music on the external hard drive but obviously doing this will make the whole library on the hard drive, not separating yours and your wife's collections.

Someone else might know different though! But I think that's how it works!

If you're more worried about keeping your music collections separate, rather than the disk space the tracks will take up, there are few ways to use multiple iPods on one computer Smiley All explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495

Hope that helps! Smiley
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Re: Externel Hard Drives. « Reply #2 Posted: 21 October 2011 at 03:44 PM »
Many thanks for your help Lpeek, I'll have a look at your link and see what I can do. 
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Re: Externel Hard Drives. « Reply #3 Posted: 21 October 2011 at 04:37 PM »
You could always buy a low-priced netbook for your wife.   I use iTunes on my laptop mainly for synching with my iPhone.   Last week my wife changed her phone to, you guessed, an iPhone.  Rather than go through a separate process of having another iTunes account on the same laptop, I downloaded iTunes to her netbook and my wife can use that for hers.   Obviously if you want to rip music from CD's to the netbook you will have to get an external CD/DVD drive as netbooks don't have a CD/DVD drive.   They are cheap enough from Amazon.   The alternative is to rip the music to your computer and transfer it to the netbook using a flash drive and then deleting what you don't want to keep from your computer.
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Re: Externel Hard Drives. « Reply #4 Posted: 21 October 2011 at 04:38 PM »
Or, simply transfer the files from one computer to another over the network. 
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Re: Externel Hard Drives. « Reply #5 Posted: 22 October 2011 at 06:42 AM »
Thanks to all of you for the info', I'm now looking into all the suggestions.
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Re: Externel Hard Drives. « Reply #6 Posted: 27 October 2011 at 10:18 AM »
After all the suggestions given above and a little more advice from others I think I've come up with a solution. I've opened another account on my laptop and, with the help of the link below, I can simply move the music to the external hard disc. I can then access the music from iTunes on my laptop. 'Simples', as the meerkats say, but not simple if you don't know how. Thanks for all the advice and if anyone else has the same problem look at the link below.

                                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRQzxyI7jps

When I opened the new account, not quite as daunting as I thought it would be, iTunes was there already, without my wife's music on it. I did wonder if I would have to download it again. As so often happens with computers it's simple when you know how, it's just knowing how that's the problem.  icon_scratch
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