Partial iTunes Library on external drive?

[Ram27]

I want my music to be on the computer, but Movies+TV Shows on an external drive.

Is that possible?

Is it even advisable to manage videos with iTunes?

 

[quasinormal]

Add the movie files to iTunes after unchecking the

"Copy files to iTunes Media Folder when adding to library"

option in;

iTunes > Preferences > Advanced

You'll need to turn this on again when you import music.

 

[gooch3265]

I did a lot if googling on this topic and reached the conclusion that for all the hassle and uncertainty it was just as simple to buy Tunespan for this task. I have transferred my entire collection of movies and TV shows onto my NAS and left my music on my MBP.

Everything works well, and I can move files around from NAS to MBP whenever I want, so long as the NAS and the MBP are on the same network.