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IMac Memory is filling up - Questions

My iMac has about 100 GB left for music in iTunes. Everything is backed up in an external HD but now what? It does not appear that the album artwork is in the External HD first off. Second, the Ext. HD lists all the music by individual tracks, not albums. Assuming I want to add more music and the External HD is the only place left to put it - how do I pull up an album (CD) and the artwork? Does the artwork stay in iTunes? Maybe somebody has already been here???
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theraiguy
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You could always point iTunes to recognize your external HD as the library source. If you change it within the settings, it will take a little while to update your library. Most of the metadata will transfer over, but you might lose some artwork that you had to manually put in.
I did that when my MacBook started to fill up, and I now use the external as the source and leave my internal hard drive specifically for running programs.
jb8312
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Agreed. Just use your ext hd as the library storage. I have a 180gb hd in my MacBook, so one of the first things I did was an external hd (Lacie 1TB) and that is where all my music sits.

Soon thereafter, I got another one to back up the first. storage is pretty cheap these days.

good luck. john
puerto OP
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OK - but can you pull up complete albums for playback or do you have to pull up one song at a time? Right now I can access all of the music in the external HD but only as one track at a time. Does your External HD act just the same as iTunes in your computer did with all the various options? Maybe I'm missing a mental step here.
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