Hey Guys,
I realize i'm really late to this party but I need some advice. I have a big iTunes library (almost 2TB w/ 160,000 songs) and it seems like after it got bigger than 80,000 songs or so things really started slowing down. My entire library is on a Western Digital Studio 2TB w/ Firewire 800 to my mac and its almost full. My MacBookPro is about 8 years old now as well. Im also running iTunes 10.6 because of the newer search problems.
I'm thinking about re-doing my itunes Library. Instead of having one master folder that itunes organized and copied for me (27,000 artist folders) I want to organize the music myself and split it up into fewer category folders (maybe 100). Do you think this would help with iTunes loading times and latency? The only problem i'm experiencing right now is when I click on my master folder it takes a few seconds for everything to pop up. Also the biggest problem is I used to be able to have my Serato Scratch Live DJ program read my itunes Library but after 80,000 or so it just tries to load and then times out. I'm not sure if this is because of the size of my library, the hardware i'm using, or the crazy back door organization that iTunes does for me.
Do you think its worth putting in the time to re-organize all these folders just so that it will look good on the back end? Do any of you have experience with running any DJ program and having it read a huge iTunes library?
I love my music collection and consider it one of my most valuable possessions. I just want it to be as efficient as possible and work with my DJ software. Any input or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys
I realize i'm really late to this party but I need some advice. I have a big iTunes library (almost 2TB w/ 160,000 songs) and it seems like after it got bigger than 80,000 songs or so things really started slowing down. My entire library is on a Western Digital Studio 2TB w/ Firewire 800 to my mac and its almost full. My MacBookPro is about 8 years old now as well. Im also running iTunes 10.6 because of the newer search problems.
I'm thinking about re-doing my itunes Library. Instead of having one master folder that itunes organized and copied for me (27,000 artist folders) I want to organize the music myself and split it up into fewer category folders (maybe 100). Do you think this would help with iTunes loading times and latency? The only problem i'm experiencing right now is when I click on my master folder it takes a few seconds for everything to pop up. Also the biggest problem is I used to be able to have my Serato Scratch Live DJ program read my itunes Library but after 80,000 or so it just tries to load and then times out. I'm not sure if this is because of the size of my library, the hardware i'm using, or the crazy back door organization that iTunes does for me.
Do you think its worth putting in the time to re-organize all these folders just so that it will look good on the back end? Do any of you have experience with running any DJ program and having it read a huge iTunes library?
I love my music collection and consider it one of my most valuable possessions. I just want it to be as efficient as possible and work with my DJ software. Any input or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys