itunes library all on one drive or split on drives for each media type?

[Sossity]

I was reading the ipod thread about the largest itunes library, & some had screen shots showing all their content; music, tv shows, book etc.

they seem to have different media types all in one itunes library on a single external hard drive.

Right now my itunes consists of music only, so I have my itunes on an external hard drive called music.

I had planned that if I got any video or tv shows from itunes, that I would have a seprate library & external hard drive for this.

I realize that it might be better to have a single itunes library for all my media types on a single big external hard drive.

If I go the all in one itunes library route,

for music, I have all my music ripped in flac & in mp3 that I converted from flac with other software in mp3 on my music drive, & i then load them into itunes.

if I move my current itunes library containing music only from my music external hard drive now to a new external hard drive for an all media type itunes library, do i have to have those mp3 albums that i ripped on the same drive along with my itunes library? or can i leave those on the old music drive?

how do I move an itunes library to another new hard drive without having to start from scratch & reloading all my albums?

 

[GGJstudios]

You can have your iTunes music and movies stored wherever you like. The files don't all have to be on the same drive, even if they are all in one iTunes library. If you want to spread it over multiple drives, this will help:

How to split a single iTunes library over two or more media locations