5 essential tools that every iTunes user should have
If you use iTunes regularly, you probably have a litany of frustrations with the software, as well as a list of “I wish it did this” items. I know I do. Here are five tools that will help bend iTunes to your will.
1. TuneSpan
When you had only a bunch of albums encoded as 128-kbps MP3 files, your iTunes library was probably a very manageable size. But add in TV shows, movies, home videos, and Apple Lossless CD rips, and even the mightiest of hard drives can start to get cramped. My iTunes library, for example, has ballooned to 400GB. (Those darn 1080p videos of my kids take up a lot of room, let me tell you.)
TuneSpan lets you relocate ("span") iTunes video and music files across multiple hard drives.
So what’s the solution? You could buy a big external drive and move your entire iTunes folder to it for current and future content. But that can be complicated, and you might not want to go for the all-or-nothing approach. For me, the $15 TuneSpan from Random Applications is the way to go. With it, you can relocate (span) content to multiple other hard drives to free up space on your main drive, while continuing to see, play, and sync everything in iTunes as you normally would.
2. HandBrake
Due to some murky legal issues, iTunes can’t (nor do I expect will ever be able to) rip your purchased DVDs to copy to your iOS devices or play on your Apple TV. But many third-party apps can, and the free HandBrake is at the top of my list for such purposes.
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