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Liberate Your iTunes Libraries
Posted 02/25/2007 at 5:06:57pm | by
Niko Coucouvanis
If you're a DJ you've got tons of tunes. Follow these simple steps, and you can carry only the tunes you need to each party or gig.
WHAT YOU NEED:
>> iTunes 7 (free, www.apple.com)
>> Lots of music
>> Extra internal or external hard drives
A DJ friend asked us for advice on managing a huge (200GB-plus) and diverse iTunes collection that he uses for live performances with his MacBook Pro - which can only accommodate about 100GB of music. Upgrading the 'Book's hard drive doesn't solve the issue because he'd still have one mother of a music collection to dig through at each gig. We've got a better solution anyway: Set up multiple iTunes libraries on different external drives so you can grab the drive you need and go.
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Is there way to shuffle from the entire collection ?
Submitted by Al (not verified) on Sat, 2007-03-03 17:55
I have over 1300 Jazz CDs primarily purchased for the trumpet player on the disk. I am an audiophile and have been playing with the convienence of random or shuffle playing of various or one specific player via iTunes through my main system. (Chet Baker 178 CDs, Dizzy 90+, etc)
I am thinking of purchasing a 1 TB harddrive, but I can envision needing more than this soon. I will not save files at less than full AIFF format, so this disk will be close to full already.
Is there a way to buy multiple smaller drives but STILL "party shuffle" play from the entire collection ?????? That way I could add a 250 or 500 drive as needed.
Is there a third party addon or stand alone music player that can ??
Also Are there any stand alone music players (Mac computer software) that can handle playback of DVD-A (24bit/192k or 24bit/96k PCM) or SACD quality files ??
Thanks
AL
Submitted by TheConfuzed1 (not verified) on Sun, 2007-03-04 20:29
Click on "Library."
Select "Random Play."
Enjoy.
Submitted by ROb (not verified) on Wed, 2007-03-07 06:37
You might want to look at the glyph drives. These are made for just such and occasion.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GT103/These are designed to have keys.. So you can actually build a raid with 3 drives. Or just use one..
Submitted by Nigel (not verified) on Tue, 2007-05-01 08:23
Nice guide. I've been wondering about the same thing. There's one thing you don't mention though: play counts. When importing tracks to a new library and deleting them in the old one, you will lose your play counts (and dates and all that other stuff) won't you?
Submitted by kay (not verified) on Thu, 2007-05-31 10:01
I seem to have the problem of too many libraries. I'm using two Macs, and two user accounts but sharing one external drive.
What do I need to do to get all of my music to play on both machines and download to my iPod?
Submitted by Oszi (not verified) on Tue, 2007-06-05 23:52
I have the same problem like this DJ, the only thing is, I 'm still using Windows, unfortunately ;-(. Is there a way to do the same with Windows?
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