Playing iTunes music directly from external hard drive
I know that you can copy your iTunes music folder over to an external hard drive for backup / restore purposes.....however, can you open iTunes on your computer and have it play the music from the external hard drive itself instead of storing the music on the computer hard drive? Also, when you move the music folder to external hard drive, does it keep the album artwork that was added to the information when the music CD was imported?
Reason I'm asking is that I have close to 80 gigs of music on my computer now and I now only have 10% free space which isn't much....I'd like to remove the music completely from the computer hard drive to free up space and play from the external hard drive (which has 2TB of space).
I have a HP Pavillion dv9000 laptop that is currently running Windows Vista has been partioned into three drives - C drive has all my applications and operating system (10 gb free of 86.5 gb); D drive has all my DATA files (saved files, documents, music, and such) (10 gb free of 93.1 gb), and the E drive is strictly for HP Recovery (which I can't touch) (634 mb free of 6.59 gb).
Processor is Intel Core 2 CPU 1.67 GHz / 32-bit OS / 2046 RAM Memory
I plan to update to Windows 10 shortly and need to find out the above to see if this can be a viable solution.
Your assistance in this is appreciated.
Windows Vista
