{"id":465,"date":"2009-03-02T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:42:07","slug":"move-the-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/465-move-the-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Move the Tunes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/otg-music.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-467\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/otg-music.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Several months ago, I wrote an article about slimming down your Mac&#8217;s hard drive. Go ahead, <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/Reviews\/Framework.cfm?page=\/Tips\/thin\/thin.html\" target=\"_blank\">check it out<\/a>. I&#8217;ll wait.<\/p>\n<p>As part of that article, I talked about moving your iTunes library to a separate hard drive. Aside from the space savings\u00a0(<em>especially<\/em> if you&#8217;re using a laptop and your music collection goes into the several-hundred-gigabyte range, like many of us at OWC), there&#8217;s another little benefit to that little trick: if you put your library on a portable hard drive, such as an <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/firewire\/on-the-go\" target=\"_blank\">OWC On-The-Go Pro<\/a>, you get the added benefit of being able to play your music, with all the appropriate playlists, on whatever Mac you&#8217;re using.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All you need to do is connect the drive to your Mac, hold down the Option key when launching iTunes, and you can select the library you want to use. 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