DEAL OF THE DAY: Save 46% on the Incipio FAXION Case for iPhone 5!
Results 1 to 5 of 5
Like Tree1Likes
  • 1 Post By Karenkcoulter
  1. Thread AuthorThread Author   #1  
    Lenerdosy's Avatar
    iPhone Intermediate

    Posts
    183 Posts
    Global Posts
    368 Global Posts

    Default Music from external HD on iTunes?

    I know with my windows computer, I could take the music from my external HD and drag it onto iTunes and it would show up and play whenever I turned the HD on but didn't transfer the songs to main HD of my PC. When I tried this on my MacBook it too up the 60GB of space on my 256gb drive so I was wondering if there was a way this would only show up when I have the external plugged in?
  2. #2  
    PhoneAddict's Avatar
    iPhone Newbie

    Posts
    32 Posts
    Global Posts
    69 Global Posts

    Default Re: Music from external HD on iTunes?

    Up front I will admit that I am a novice at using Mac and iTunes, but if you go to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced Preferences there is the ability to direct the iTunes media folder to a specific location. You may want to try changing that to your HD after copying the iTunes media folder on your MAC to the HD. Not sure if that would work but did see that option in the Preference section.
  3. #3  
    Karenkcoulter's Avatar

    Posts
    1,441 Posts
    Global Posts
    1,442 Global Posts
    iOS Version
    iOS 6.1.3

    Default Music from external HD on iTunes?

    It's just an iTunes option. Under Preferences -> Advanced, uncheck the box for "copy to iTunes library". You must have changed that setting at some point on your other PC.
    Fausty82 likes this.
  4. #4  
    Fausty82's Avatar
    iPhone Genius

    Posts
    5,223 Posts
    iOS Version
    6.1.4

    Default Re: Music from external HD on iTunes?

    Quote Originally Posted by Karenkcoulter View Post
    It's just an iTunes option. Under Preferences -> Advanced, uncheck the box for "copy to iTunes library". You must have changed that setting at some point on your other PC.
    Yep. Karen has provided the correct answer.

    That’s how I use my Mac Mini with it’s 320GB hard drive to serve over 2TB of movies, television shows and home videos to my AppleTVs. (The media lives on a NAS).
    iPhone 5 (Black.32GB.AT&T) iPad Mini (Black.32GB.WiFi) iPad (3Gen.Black.64GB.AT&T) MacBook Pro (15" 2012.Retina Display.i7) iMac (21.5" 2011.i5) AppleTV (3Gen)
  5. Thread AuthorThread Author   #5  
    Lenerdosy's Avatar
    iPhone Intermediate

    Posts
    183 Posts
    Global Posts
    368 Global Posts

    Default Re: Music from external HD on iTunes?

    You guys rock, I must have done that years ago with my PC and forgot that Thanks for the answers.

Similar Threads

  1. Movies from external HD to iPad 2?
    By miketko in forum iPad 2
    Replies: 4
    Last Post: 12-06-2011, 05:02 PM
  2. Replies: 1
    Last Post: 07-26-2011, 06:57 AM
  3. Replies: 2
    Last Post: 09-15-2010, 09:38 PM
  4. music from Itunes to Iphone
    By philiphone in forum iTunes
    Replies: 5
    Last Post: 05-11-2009, 03:41 PM
  5. Music downloaded on itunes via iphone diss
    By cicago447 in forum iTunes
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 09-20-2008, 03:07 PM

Posting Permissions