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parrotdr 
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| Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 10:07 am)
I did this yesterday to "reclaim" 120 GB of hard drive space on my computer.
I got a 1.5 TB Western Digital Passport external drive. It was easy enough to move the files and re-route Itunes, but I hear occasional skipping when playing songs off the drive. Seems this is not uncommon on the external drives.
Anyone have experience with this? Should I get a higher quality external drive? Internet research gives no certain answers... 
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lsu480 
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 10:36 am to parrotdr)
iTunes Match FTMFW. Google it, return your hard drive, and thank me later.
ETA: 120gbs of music??????
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SenorTiger9
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 10:38 am to lsu480)
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iTunes Match FTMFW
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 10:39 am to parrotdr)
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Anyone have experience with this? Should I get a higher quality external drive?
I've ran my music off an external drive for 8 years now. Never had skipping. Western Digital is among the highest quality you can get. I have a 500 GB passport that I've been using for 4 years with no problem. I run time machine back ups to a 1 TB passport and I have a 3 TB My Book Studio that I have all of my movies and TV shows on.
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lsu480
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 10:43 am to colorchangintiger)
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I've ran my music off an external drive for 8 years now. Never had skipping. Western Digital is among the highest quality you can get. I have a 500 GB passport that I've been using for 4 years with no problem. I run time machine back ups to a 1 TB passport and I have a 3 TB My Book Studio that I have all of my movies and TV shows on.
You think you have enough storage? 
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colorchangintiger
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 10:45 am to lsu480)
Can never have enough.
Also have everything backed up through Crash Plan
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 10:53 am to parrotdr)
This should do the trick. It's because your drive is sleeping most likely.
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-stop-your-external-hard-disk-from-going-into-sleep-mode/
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 12:38 pm to colorchangintiger)
I've never had any songs skip off of any other disk. This is strange.
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Sl4m
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 12:40 pm to colorchangintiger)
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Can never have enough.
Also have everything backed up through Crash Plan
Wise man.
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Sl4m
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 12:42 pm to Sl4m)
The first thing I always do with any Ext HDD is format it Fat32 so it reads from the PS3, 360, Cell phone, Android Tablet, all my Windows machines and Mac.
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primemover225
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/5/13 at 12:47 pm to Sl4m)
Dumb question but what benefit does that have from your gaming devices
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parrotdr
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/6/13 at 7:03 pm to lsu480)
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I've never had any songs skip off of any other disk. This is strange.
Weirdly enough, it hasn't done it since the first day. Out of the box rust??? I did read that some of these with defective disks can skip, but seems OK as of now.
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ETA: 120gbs of music??????
Yep, a whole crapload of music (24,000+ songs), a few videos and podcasts, and maybe two movies.
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Hulkklogan
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/6/13 at 7:10 pm to parrotdr)
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but I hear occasional skipping when playing songs off the drive
Odd. I have the same external HDD and don't have that problem.
eta
I'm also not using itunes, though.
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I Love Bama 
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/6/13 at 7:11 pm to parrotdr)
Google Music Man. I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned. It's free.
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polarbehr
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/6/13 at 7:21 pm to parrotdr)
western digital drives have go to shite the past couple years,
i never notice any issues with seagate drives
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Gaston
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/6/13 at 7:27 pm to parrotdr)
I have about 700gb of music on my external running the old type USB to my 2006 iMac. I have never heard a skip and everything is 1411kbps. External digital to analog converter as well, so even another step in the chain.
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ADLSUNSU
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/6/13 at 7:36 pm to parrotdr)
Perhaps all of that music was being indexed, slowing and causing a skip due to ram levels in your computer
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Gaston
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:18 pm to parrotdr)
Once you reroute iTunes you still need to drag and drop the collection from its new location into iTunes library. You did that huh?
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MaroonWhite 
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| re: Moving songs to external hard drive (Posted on 1/6/13 at 8:27 pm to parrotdr)
If it's a USB drive I would try using a different USB port on your computer.
ETA - Also, it will most likely skip when your computer executes power options (puts video, internal HD to sleep, etc.). I have a laptop that does this. If that's what is causing it, turn the power options off or extend the times.
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