For many weeks, if not months, I fought iTunes – and finally I one. And now that I know the trick, I’m more than embarrassed, that I didn’t come up with this weeks, if not months, earlier.
But let’s do this chronologically:
I always thought that iTunes, even though it has many annoying flaws, is a great application to organize your stuff. Media files, that is.
In 2009 no one should have to care about folder structures and that sort of stuff himself. And iTunes does that pretty well (and with the update to iTunes 9 even more cleanly).
That’s why I let iTunes handle everything. I have a playlist called “new music” in which I throw -who would have guessed?- all my new music. iTunes then automagically copies those files into it’s own folder structure and puts the songs up into the media library.
The same goes for movies and tv shows (if the video files are in the correct format, of course).
And here comes the problem: with a growing library, I eventually ran out of harddisk space and tried many, many things in order to convince iTunes, to save my movies on external disk 1, my tv shows on external disk 2 and keep my music on the internal disk.