How to move iTunes music to external HD?

copy your itunes music folder, including the itunes library file, to your new hard drive. then launch itunes holding down the option key. it will ask you to select a library... navigate to your new external library, and voila.

Well I'm running on a windows machine, so no option key, but I can look around for select library (didn't know that option existed)

on windows, i believe it's "ALT"... you won't find "select library" by looking around... the only way to get it is when the program launches.

Yeah I know it's alt, I'm just not sure if that will work in windows, (I'm not sure if programs can be configured to different things on startup while holding a key down in windows.) I don't have iTunes on this comptuer, but I'll test it later and post back. Thanks again!

in windows ,
1.open itunes
2. click the advanced tab and then select "Consolidate Library" --- This will organize and copy all your music and videos in one folder which is My Documents/ My Music/iTunes
3. simply copy this folder to your external HD and your set.

also if you want to copy allall your songs from the iPod without even using Itunes,
get a freeware application called iDump (http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt;=idump&tag;=srch) that lets you copy everything from your iPod and output the files in your external hd

Theres actually a trick to downloading stuff off the ipod that doesnt require any external programs. Ask and I'll explain lol.

you mean the trick where you enable disk mode , then go to to the folder where all the songs and videos are stored???

yep :-) I've got a batch command on my comptuer that does it all for me