Itunes Question - Refreshing Library
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- mg33
I've never really used Itunes to manage my music until now. Usually just kept them in folders and dragged them into my ipod in itunes.
So, now using itunes and my question is: How do I get itunes to refresh itself and add any new music I've added to my main music directory? I've used the "Add folder" or "Import" feature, but I'm moving a ton of stuff from one drive to another and would prefer that it recognize new music and add it automatically. I hate adding something that's already there and having two copies of the same thing.
Thanks,!
- Llyod0
get a mac
- Point50
I just delete everything in my iTunes, then re-import my consolidated library. It saves a lot of headaches.
- ribit0
You are better to set iTunes to manage your music folder (in iTunes settings) and then always drag music files/folders into iTunes (not to the folder)... it then copies the files to the folder for you, and keeps track of it all...
- mg330
thanks ribit, that sounds good.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but changing the mp3 id3 tags (info) in itunes does in fact change the file's id3 tags for good, right?
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- horton0
no you got it wrong; changing track info in itunes permanently changes the file's ID3... in other words, itunes is your tag editor.
do a test; change a track's info and look at the file on your disk, you'll see the mod date has changed.
- horton0
and in response to the original question; i turn off the auto-library management in itunes prefs.. pretty easy to stay ontop of it yourself.. personally as a heavy file-sharer i find it way easier to manage my downloading habits and file my mp3's in my own folder system. as long as the mp3 files stay on the same disk itunes won't lose track of them, so your free to file away your collection into folders however you like.
unless you're using itunes to rename files and folders there's no point in having it copy your files to it's own library, just means you gotta do an extra step and trash originals. plus i don't like how itunes names folders.. over time a "artist - album" system makes far more sense.
- oh and either way you'll still be left with an "intunes" folder in you home directory which can pretty much be ignored.. where the app saves its .xml and whatever.. also podcasts will still end up in here, but they're easy enough to manage and trash within the itunes app.
horton - ... the lib .xml is saved. also podcast end up in here but they're easy enough to manage and trash within itunes.horton
- oh and either way you'll still be left with an "intunes" folder in you home directory which can pretty much be ignored.. where the app saves its .xml and whatever.. also podcasts will still end up in here, but they're easy enough to manage and trash within the itunes app.
- pango0
this is what i do.
drag every music file i have in to ituen to let it copy them into itune folder. gotta go to itune setting to make it "copy music to itune folder" first and set that let itune organize it for you. then delet the original file (not the ones in itune folder)
i've no problem with itune so far doing it this way.
- acescence0
applescript is your friend. here are some good starting points:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/sc…