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Tranferring Itunes library to external drive, keep playlists?

post #1 of 3
9/15/10 at 8:54am
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My macbook is in need of a fresh copy of osx.  I want to transfer my library to an external drive, but will I be able to somehow keep my playlists in tact when I finally move the music off the drive and onto my computer?  I have a bunch of electro trance house tracks that I will lose if I don't keep them in a playlist.  Cheers

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post #2 of 3
9/15/10 at 3:28pm

Why will you loose the tracks if you loose the playlist?  A playlist doesn't have the tracks in it, if you loose the list, the tracks will still be in your library.  As long as you have given the songs artist names so you can find them again.  

 

If you export the playlist, then you can import it again when you switch computers.  all it does is export the track organization, and when you import, it recreates the playlist from songs in your library.  It's in the "file" menu on a mac.  

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post #3 of 3
9/17/10 at 8:07am

Sure,

Just keep the exact same folder/file layout. The iTunes library have hard-coded folder/file addresses, so you can copy and paste as much as you like to/from hard drives as long as you keep the folder structure the first time you fire iTunes again.

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