A cursory search didn't find this, so I thought that I would post it in case it was useful to anybody else. This will probably only help Mac users using iTunes, although if this is not the case, please correct me.

I have a LOT of my music on an external hard drive, and, to conserve laptop HD space, only 2005 music plus a few "listening to now" albums live on my laptop HD. Up until now, if I was going to load music to my iPod, I would drag it from my external HD to my iTunes, copy it over to my iPod, and then delete it from my laptop to save space. Over the weekend I went on a downloading binge (mostly legal, ripping a bunch of older parts of my CD collection to the external) and decided to set the external drive as the source for my library - making a month's worth of music available for me to play on shuffle on my home system.

When I got to school today, and rebuilt my library (which made me lose all my rss subscriptions - shoot!), I decided that I would like to have two iTunes libraries - one for work and one for the external HD at home. I looked around and found this, which will allow me to keep two different libraries going, one for my laptop, one for my external HD. I think I'll probably go ahead and paypal the dude, and then I'll be able to have unlimited libraries going (although I'm not sure that I'll need much more than two).

Hope that this helps somebody. What with all y'all and your huge HDs, you might not have the problem of conserving laptop space that I do, but I was pretty psyched to figure this one out.

this is way cool since I've started to rip lots of my older stuff too. I wanted to keep the internal drive on my PB as clean as possible since I really use Photoshop and need the scratch space. This will let me keep most of the music I don't need immediate access to off-line.

Great idea!

Is there a link or what's the app called?

Thanks Chuck!

Chow–

link is in the word "this" in the above post - it's called "iTune Library Manager."