[Closed] Itunes to portable hard drive?

Just drag and drop itunes folder shirley?

Just move your music folder to the external drive?

Nas it will be on the network no plugs required.

And then just reset the path in iTunes.

Or just signup to Spotify Premium (for mobile use and to get rid of ads) and create playlists

Or just signup to Spotify Premium (for mobile use and to get rid of ads) and create playlists

And pay a monthly fee to access music that he already owns? 🙄
Seagate have just announced a 1Tb portable drive with a battery and wifi that you can stick your music and video on and carry it around when you travel, as it sets up an ad hoc network that anyone can access. great for holidays. not cheap, but worth considering.

How do I "reset a path" as advised above? 😳

Get spotify as above a monthly fee for more music that you can imagine and no more iTunes

In itunes go to

On top (file) menu go to Edit
Preferences
there should be a box which says "iTunes media folder location" next it a button which says "Change"
Click that and remove the pathway that's currently in there (on my laptop mine says... "C:\Users\pkh\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media" and replace it with whatever the folder path is for the external hard drive.

I'm not techie so not sure the term "path" is the right term.

The spotify suggestions..... how do you listen to music when offline?

In itunes go to

If the OP is going from a laptop to an Android tablet he won't be using itunes, he needs to get his music off the laptop and onto a hard drive/NAS in a form the tablet can use. If I understand the OP correctly the laptop will be completely out of the picture.

Probably RB, iTunes really isn't needed then.

Might be helpful if he wants to connect it to his wife's PC (and iTunes) though.

Thanks Gents,now done.

mikewsmith - Member
Get spotify as above a monthly fee for more music that you can imagine and no more iTunes

hammerite - Member
The spotify suggestions..... how do you listen to music when offline?

This. You can't, which is why mikewsmith's suggestion is so stupid.
Unless, of course, you only ever have background music playing, and otherwise don't care. Spotify is useless in a car, is useless on holiday where there's no phone network, no wifi, is useless if you go abroad, and have no free wifi.
Only a complete idiot would suggest Spotify as a single music source. Or any online or Cloud-beaded source.
I want to own my music, not have access to it only at the whim of network providers or the Internet. You are renting it with Spotify; they can withdraw your access, then what have you got for your £120/year?
I could have fifteen or twenty albums for that, that belong to me.

CountZero - Member

mikewsmith - Member
Get spotify as above a monthly fee for more music that you can imagine and no more iTunes

hammerite - Member
The spotify suggestions..... how do you listen to music when offline?

This. You can't, which is why mikewsmith's suggestion is so stupid.
Unless, of course, you only ever have background music playing, and otherwise don't care. Spotify is useless in a car, is useless on holiday where there's no phone network, no wifi, is useless if you go abroad, and have no free wifi.
Only a complete idiot would suggest Spotify as a single music source. Or any online or Cloud-beaded source.
I want to own my music, not have access to it only at the whim of network providers or the Internet. You are renting it with Spotify; they can withdraw your access, then what have you got for your £120/year?
I could have fifteen or twenty albums for that, that belong to me.

Errm WRONG!!...Suggest you actually get to know your stuff prior to gobbing off 🙄 You dont 'own' the music any more than you do on iTunes but you can sync off-line as a premium account user so effectively use it anywhere, on or off line, thus effectively having unlimited tuneage to use anytime as long as your device can handle the space required....As you were. 😉

Bless. The Under-understanding.

Errm WRONG!!...Suggest you actually get to know your stuff prior to gobbing off You dont 'own' the music any more than you do on iTunes but you can sync off-line as a premium account user so effectively use it anywhere, on or off line, thus effectively having unlimited tuneage to use anytime as long as your device can handle the space required....As you were.

So, forgive me if I have this wrong, but after a year, say, you decide you can't afford that premium account, and cancel it, where is all that music? I 'own' the music in iTunes, because I've bought it, mostly on cd, ripped it into iTunes, and it's stored on my harddrive. The music I've bought and downloaded from iTunes, is installed on my computer. If I were to cancel my iTunes account, that music is still there. It's not streamed, it's an actual download, and as far as I was aware, Spotify is a streaming service, and, like Napster, you only have access to the music as long as you are paying a subscription. Nothing I've read about Spotify has lead me to believe anything different.

Yep it's a trade off count. But as it costs me less than 1 album a month and gives me so much more I'm happy. I was listening to a new music stream I have synced flying back last night. Well worth it for me.

Ymmv of course

Oh and you still own all the music you currently own and can play and sync it.