TuneSpan
Your iTunes Library on multiple drives.
TuneSpan: (app) An application for Mac OS X (10.5 or later, universal) that allows you to
move around and keep track of media files in your iTunes Library on multiple drives.
span: (verb) to distribute the media files in your iTunes Library across multiple drives.
For information about how TuneSpan works, and more,
click here to read TuneSpan Help.
Download TuneSpan 0.9.7 beta
Released May 14th, 2012
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TuneSpan version 0.9.7 beta May 14th, 2012
- Featured Addition: TuneSpan can now detect stray files for spanned tracks deleted from iTunes. You can have TuneSpan trash these files, or leave them alone. More information in the updated TuneSpan Help.
- Featured Addition: Span Location view now contains summary information, allowing you to easily see amount of tracks spanned to selected location and available space on the drive.
- Featured Improvement: Many refinements to the track table and Smart Album Column. Track table now has custom selection highlighting to match alternating row and album colors. Rows will also become subtly highlighted as a visual cue that the track is in the Spanning Queue. Also, in the Smart Album Column, when all tracks in the album are selected the album section will highlight as selected as well.
- Added: Button in Smart Album Column header to launch iTunes to load album artwork. Also improved album artwork loading when TuneSpan launched iTunes.
- Added: Playlist and Media Type menu options to reveal selected playlist or media type in iTunes. Also improved revealing and playing tracks in iTunes. Now, iTunes will continue playing after the selected track is over.
- Improved: TuneSpan will better keep your current selections when you switch between viewing the Spanning Queue and your whole library, along with other improvements to preserving selections and querying tracks for current selections.
- Improved: Recognizes iTunes Library files with either extension ".itl" or no extension.
- Improved: TuneSpan is now code signed with Apple's new Developer ID in preparation for Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).
- Improved: Moved browser options from the General Preferences to menu options in the View menu and contextual menus in the Column Browser and Media Type buttons for easy access.
- Improved: Moved search options from the General Preferences to menu options in the search field. Also added Comments, Bit Rate, and Kind fields for more useful filtering. You can easily select one search field or multiple fields from the new menu.
- Improved: Browse Media Type options in the View menu now show track counts and and options with no tracks will be disabled. Also, the selected Media Type is now checked in the menu.
- Improved: Refined and added tooltips throughout the interface.
- Changed: Moved automatic saving options from Advanced Preferences to General Preferences.
- Fixed: A bug in Crash Recover Mode where, in some cases, tracks could be added to or removed from the Spanning Queue. Also, disabled more menu options and hid drag images to make Crash Recovery Mode more visibly secure.
- Fixed: Other minor bug fixes and improvements.
Click here to submit TuneSpan bug reports, suggestions, etc.
TuneSpan on Lifehacker
TuneSpan Lets You Store Parts of Your iTunes Library on External Storage to Save Disk Space
If you don't want to manage multiple music libraries and would rather just have one, but your
iTunes is eating up precious disk space, TuneSpan can migrate your excess media to external
drives while still keeping it accessible within iTunes. This way you can move music you don't
listen to very often to an external drive and just plug it in when you want to access the files.
TuneSpan on Mac.AppStorm
Take Control of Your iTunes Library with TuneSpan
TuneSpan has really been a key application, and will continue to be, in my disk space management.
The bulk of my drive space is occupied by media so managing that a little more intelligently makes all
sorts of sense. I will say that I'm actually enjoying the restriction the Air disk space puts on my computing
world. I'm more thoughtful as to what I install and what I save. It's resulted in a much more tidy machine
and the minimalist in me loves that. On the flip side I do want to have, maintain, and sometimes access all
sorts of digital media that I just wouldn't have the disk space for on the local drive. TuneSpan allows me to
manage all of that content in a simple, smart way, while still keeping it all very accessible.
TuneSpan on AddictiveTips
Move And Keep Track Of Media Files In iTunes Library On Multiple Drives
TuneSpan offers the best way to distribute media file in iTunes library across multiple external drives
and network locations. While it offers simple yet intuitive way to organize your iTunes media collection,
it enables you to effortlessly move specified set of your collection to wherever you want.