I screwed up my iTunes, YAY.

[maca]

What OS are you running Maca?

In Windows, iTunes stores it's media in different locations depending on the version (XP/VISTA/7). You need to change where WINDOWS thinks your media (and/or documents) are being stored before iTunes will play nice. Works the same when moving to a new computer.

iTunes can be stupidly fiddley at times, but once you set it up and go with it, it's pretty good. If you want we can catch up on MSN sometime and walk you through it.

I'm running Vista, and I've noticed that. All songs are stored in different places with different source paths and sometimes different hard drives

[Brisben]

I'm running Vista, and I've noticed that. All songs are stored in different places with different source paths and sometimes different hard drives

To show hidden files, when you want to see whats on your ipod and copy them back onto your pc. you do the following

Open my computer

click the TOOLS tab

click FOLDER OPTIONS TAB

Click the VIEW tab

you will notice when you scroll down an option to show hidden files, click it .

then plug in your ipod and then go to my computer, the ipod should be showing as an external source.

Open it up, somewhere in there will be all your music files.

Now it does jumble them all up, but they are all there. You will probably have around 20 to 30 folders containing music, just open them all and put all tracks in one folder.

You can now drag and drop all these files back into your itunes directory.

Its a cumbersome way but it certainly works.


I have a 120 g ipod classic...My favourite toy along with UTORRENT

[G-rig]

Can't you burn a dvd backup of your music than re-import them? I manually manage my music locations so not sure.

iTunes sucks so I try not to use it, only for transferring music (not to organise or play it). Such a waste of time.

[GTI_racer]

Clear your entire itunes library, and don't delete the files when it asks you to.

Then add your new folder to the library and it should fix al of your problems

[maca]

Thanks for you advice guys But I think I need a new lappie, I come back to find this one doing weird and strange things... E.g. Screen blinking, restarted itself, switched off etc.

[The_Hawk]

iTunes sucks so I try not to use it, only for transferring music (not to organise or play it). Such a waste of time.

Some people seems to love it, some seem to hate it, although in some cases it's just a hatred for everything Apple for no apparent reason that clouds the judgement, my brother in law refuses to look at an iPhone for the blatent hatred thing

I used to manually manage all my music keeping it neatly stored in correctly named folders, a common naming convention and all that, used to clean up files before moving them to the library...

..then one day I just tried hitting the "let iTunes manage my music" button... (as well as the consolidate library button). Everything was moved to the iTunes folder, everything was organised (very similar to the way I was doing things anyway) and it did just work.

Using an iPhone (and a bunch of other iPods across the family) I don't have many options, but I gotta say iTunes is the best music management software available, again it's fair to say there isn't alot else out there that works very well, but still I think iTunes works damn well.


Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to convert anyone, if you don't like it and you have an alternative system that works for you, more power to you, but for me iTunes passes the Mum test, by which I mean I'd be happy installing it on my Mum's computer knowing she'd be fine using it.

[cram]

Thanks for all the info guys - I have a similar issue.

[G-rig]

Yeah, itunes is fairly idiot proof, it's just a few small things that annoy me like if I add album art or change some info it doesn't update on the player (maybe it does if you let itunes manage/sync it). I have never understood the mentality of getting the player to match everything that's in itunes, as it simply doesn't fit on once you got a decent library.

Also stumps me why some albums get separated when all the info appears to be the same. I agree with keeping the ID3 tags sorted before importing, as i use a different ripper, and saves a few headaches later.

The process is a bit more cumbersome as I use another audio type (FLAC) and have been converting that to Apple Lossless, mp3 import is dead simple though. Started using that ages ago before having an ipod/iphone and itunes for windows doesn't sound as good as on a mac, as windows kmixer stuffs around with the sound (and i use Foobar otherwise).

[maca]

It would be so much more simple if everytime you added a song to iTunes, the song was automatically added to a special iTunes only folder. So even if you mess with the original source of the song (in my case; moving everything from C to D drives), it doesn't mess up the iTunes library

[G-rig]

It would be so much more simple if everytime you added a song to iTunes, the song was automatically added to a special iTunes only folder. So even if you mess with the original source of the song (in my case; moving everything from C to D drives), it doesn't mess up the iTunes library

I got nfi where itunes keeps its library, but hopefully it isn't duplicating the files as I don't personally trust it and keep my own directories where i know where the albums are. That way you can just import them again later, but i don't have any bought songs etc.