iTunes config & Backup software for Mac


Hi. I'll be using a MacBook as a music server only, which I'll purchase next week w/ Leopard installed. Couple of quick questions.

1. Because I'll need at least 230 gb for music, I'll have to put my iTunes library on external drive. Is it easy/straight forward cofiguring iTunes so that it knows I want my music library on external drive?

2. Because music will be on external drive, I'll have to back up that drive to a second external drive. (The internal drive on the MacBook will just be OS programs/files.) If I'm interested in backing up music library only, anyone know if Time Machine lets the user have a bit more fine tuning control, that is, not a plug and play, but a directed backup?

Thnx.
nycjdc
1. Yes. Under "Preferences" /"Advanced" you can specify the external drive as your library.

2. Not sure.

Good luck.
Maxtor makes a nice 1tb drive for backup it uses 800firewire so its fast and they are around $375 now.

I dont remember exactly how to configure iTunes to point to an external but i did it once when i had too much on the school Mac server but it was not difficult, its a Mac!
FYI

If you set the external drive as the default storage and at any time start iTunes before you connect it or turn it on iTunes will change the storage location back to the internal drive and won't tell you it did it.

You should go to preferences each time before you rip to make sure the files go where you want them.