NSD Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 I'm looking for that functionality ... I want to have all the songs from my NTFS partition listed under iTunes, and put into categories, without having duplicates ? Any ideas anyone ? I remember seing a post about this, but I couldn't find it. Thanks everybody. Later edit: this sounds highly unlikely to work but ... can I get the Album Artwork to display properly in any way ? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9152-getting-itunes-to-play-the-music-off-my-ntfs-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikos Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 In the iTunes menu, go to Preferences. Click the Advanced tab. Uncheck the box that says "Copy files to iTunes Music Folder when adding to library. Then when you import a folder from the NTFS partition, it will play from that partition without copying the files over the the mac partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9152-getting-itunes-to-play-the-music-off-my-ntfs-partition/#findComment-57000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSD Posted February 15, 2006 Author Share Posted February 15, 2006 Who the man ? I'm sorry sir, you the man Thanks ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9152-getting-itunes-to-play-the-music-off-my-ntfs-partition/#findComment-57004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSD Posted February 16, 2006 Author Share Posted February 16, 2006 Another thing ... this sounds highly unlikely to work but ... can I get the Album Artwork to display in any way ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9152-getting-itunes-to-play-the-music-off-my-ntfs-partition/#findComment-57039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 good question... I also have the same setup-playing mp3s off my NTFS partition. Does anyone know about that (I never had the urge to use iTunes before my hack-Mac...) Does it store album art in the same folder it tries to copy music to? and will it do it with the music somewhere else? Obviously it can't go through my ID3 tags and try to fix broken stuff (and royally {censored} me off like Windows Media Player tries to) with my actual music on a read-only NTFS partition. Anyone? Anyone? .... Bueller? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9152-getting-itunes-to-play-the-music-off-my-ntfs-partition/#findComment-57042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 The library is a pretty big XML database, and it could keep album art in there, but I believe in order to support the iPods that can display album art, the artwork IS stored with the song as an ID3 tag of some sort. Easiest way to check is look at the file size of a song in your library (use spotlight to find where it lives) and then look at the size post adding album art. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9152-getting-itunes-to-play-the-music-off-my-ntfs-partition/#findComment-57137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thacker Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 If I convert my NTFS to FAT32, can I edit the songs which are located on the new formated FAT32 Drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9152-getting-itunes-to-play-the-music-off-my-ntfs-partition/#findComment-715383 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeye Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Hello, I'm in the same case and I want to know how can I do to remove a song from the HDD when I delete it from itunes library? Thanks for your help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9152-getting-itunes-to-play-the-music-off-my-ntfs-partition/#findComment-730758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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