[Rossliew]

Hi all,
 
Noob here with regards to using Apple gear. I have a Mac Air and i can't seem to rip music off a CD to be saved directly into an external hard drive. 
 
Once i insert a CD into the transport, iTunes will detect it automatically to be ripped and saved into the Mac Air's internal HDD. Due to its smallish space, i would like to save the tunes into an external HDD but i don't seem to be able to do so.
 
Similarly, i can't drag and drop music files from the internal drive to the external HDD as well.
 
Appreciate some help/advice/how-tos from the specialists here
 
Cheers and thanks in advance !
Ross

 

[ProtegeManiac]

  Hi all,
 
Noob here with regards to using Apple gear. I have a Mac Air and i can't seem to rip music off a CD to be saved directly into an external hard drive. 
 
Once i insert a CD into the transport, iTunes will detect it automatically to be ripped and saved into the Mac Air's internal HDD. Due to its smallish space, i would like to save the tunes into an external HDD but i don't seem to be able to do so.
 
Similarly, i can't drag and drop music files from the internal drive to the external HDD as well.
 
Appreciate some help/advice/how-tos from the specialists here
 
Cheers and thanks in advance !
Ross

 
I think you have to select iTunes to back up to that external HDD.
 
Alternately you can use another player-ripper like MediaMonkey (I think they have a version for Macs), and you can specify there what format to rip to and where to save them. If it can't detect or won't select the external drive, it doesn't act possessive towards the ripped files, so you can just drag and drop them to the HDD.

 

[Rossliew]

Ok think I shall try with media monkey. iTunes doesn't seem helpful..someone mentioned that I need to reformat the hard drive for the Mac to be able to read it- any truth in this?

 

[ProtegeManiac]

Ok think I shall try with media monkey. iTunes doesn't seem helpful..someone mentioned that I need to reformat the hard drive for the Mac to be able to read it- any truth in this?

 
I hate how iTunes works, so just the headaches of how to move contents around my iPod and later an iPad and I don't bother too much with it anymore after I got a syncdock that allowed me to use the SGS3 upright as a server.