Stupid/Lazy question. HDDs - now iTunes.

[weemadando]

Are there USB harddrive mounts/caddies that work with SATA HDDs? Or are they still IDE only?

*edit* Never mind. This can now be changed to a possibly more complex question.

How easy is it to move an entire iTunes catalogue, files etc over to a new system? Or do I have to re-add all my files from scratch (including re-tagging them)?

[atg]

Are there USB harddrive mounts that work with SATA HDDs? Or are they still IDE only?

There are a few I've seen, you'ld just need to ask around at the local computer shops to find one.

[Praxis]

There's an easy way to do it, I just can't remember it right now.

Windows, I assume?

Do you have iTunes set to manage your library for you (where every file you play is copied into a library for iTunes)?

[atg]

How easy is it to move an entire iTunes catalogue, files etc over to a new system? Or do I have to re-add all my files from scratch (including re-tagging them)?

I've never specifically used the tagging system with iTunes myself, so I can't answer for that part. But when I recently installed a new system for myself all I did was un-authorise the old system with iTunes, copy the music files/folders accross, authorised the new system, and finally imported the music folders into the new iTunes library. Haven't noticed any problems since.

[weemadando]

Sweet. That sounds like it should be easy.

I'm currently HDD juggling to get all of the data I want to take with me onto my 250gb SATA (including steam caches, music and so forth) and it looks like iTunes might have a really useful "export" feature I can take advantage of.

[Stark]

Yeah, if you move your /music folder to somwhere and then 're import' it, it should keep all your songs, id tagging, playlists, etc. It's worked for me several times.