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To do this is easy, though. Another thing I did with my RAMDisk was move all of my Windows TEMP files onto the RAMDisk... as well as moved the transcoding folder for my DVD creator onto the RAMDisk. Move Your iTunes Library to Another Hard Drive in Three Simple Steps. My method is quite different, in the sense that I remain in control of the content and location of my library and just tell iTunes to adapt to it and index it. I store all of my music in a "\Music" folder (and a few sub-folders within it) of my portable hard drive and I make use of a script I wrote a while back (2006) to sync iTunes to whatever is in that folder (using the COM API). So I name my files and organize that folder however I want (but basically it's all music files in the root folder), and once upon a time, when I add/remove/rename some music files, I just hit my script to re-sync iTunes to that/those folders. So I mainly use iTunes as a collection of filters (artists/albums/etc.) to play my music and create playlists.
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The following suggestions should work well most of the time. Downloads of individual torrents also depend on other factors (see Good Torrents). [edit] Good settings based upload speed Note: Find your upload speed at next chapter. If the chart below does not list your upload speed, you might use a calculator page or get new settings using AzBot. If you are running several file-sharing programs on the same internet connection -- on one or more PCs -- you need to split the upload bandwidth and calculate queue settings accordingly.
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If the chart below does not list your upload speed, you might use a calculator page or get new settings using AzBot. If you are running several file-sharing programs on the same internet connection -- on one or more PCs -- you need to split the upload bandwidth and calculate queue settings accordingly. Attention: You need to change the User Proficiency Mode (Mode options) at least to "Intermediate" to be able to change all settings!
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