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SmirkingJack posted:...iTunes 9 introduced a 'watched' folder...
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I am running iTunes on Windows 7 RC. I am going to format soon to install the retail copy of Windows 7, but I want to keep a lot of data in my library (playlists, ratings, album artwork, etc). The location of my iTunes Music folder is going to move after the format, as well. So, what is the best way to preserve this data? I know to back up the database files, but how will I get iTunes to recognize them when I reinstall? I read the OP, but I doubt a temporary disk image is the way to go to get iTunes to cooperate on Windows.
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# ? Nov 1, 2009 07:04 |
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aneurysm posted:I am running iTunes on Windows 7 RC. I am going to format soon to install the retail copy of Windows 7, but I want to keep a lot of data in my library (playlists, ratings, album artwork, etc). The location of my iTunes Music folder is going to move after the format, as well. If you keep everything inside of the iTunes folder ([homedirectory]/Documents/Music/iTunes), then after the reinstall, move the folder to the location you want it, press and hold Left Shift while launching iTunes, and it will ask you to choose the location of your iTunes library. Choose that iTunes folder and you'll be set.
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# ? Nov 1, 2009 07:10 |
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jupitercore posted:If you keep everything inside of the iTunes folder ([homedirectory]/Documents/Music/iTunes), then after the reinstall, move the folder to the location you want it, press and hold Left Shift while launching iTunes, and it will ask you to choose the location of your iTunes library. Choose that iTunes folder and you'll be set. excellent, thank you
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# ? Nov 1, 2009 08:36 |
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revolther posted:Could you explain where this option is or how it is enabled, because, my iTunes is up to date and I don't have this feature. It's not immediately obvious. In your iTunes music dir, along with all the artist folders, there should be a folder called "Automatically Add to iTunes".
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# ? Nov 1, 2009 09:22 |
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For a company revered for UI design and ease of use, they sure have the most rear end backwards way of doing everything with iTunes.
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# ? Nov 1, 2009 11:46 |
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jupitercore posted:If you keep everything inside of the iTunes folder ([homedirectory]/Documents/Music/iTunes), then after the reinstall, move the folder to the location you want it, press and hold Left Shift while launching iTunes, and it will ask you to choose the location of your iTunes library. Choose that iTunes folder and you'll be set. How would you do this if all your iTunes metadata / apps / etc, were in the iTunes folder, but the actual music is on an external drive? I'm going to be getting a new laptop soon, and don't want to lose all the hard work I've done tagging everything correctly and adding the artwork
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# ? Nov 1, 2009 15:05 |
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Rick posted:I listen to a couple podcasts that are not released the "traditional" way. I have to manually download them from the web. Is there a way I can get itunes to treat them as podcasts rather than regular mp3 files? Especially when I sync to an ipod or iphone? I've got a similar problem with old radio shows I listen to - the main issue for me is that it automatically remember the position where I stopped it in a three hour long file. If you have that issue, right click on the file, click get info, click show options, then check the box for "remember position" and make sure that the dropdown box selector is on yes.
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# ? Nov 1, 2009 15:10 |
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Milo Pollywalter posted:It's not immediately obvious. In your iTunes music dir, along with all the artist folders, there should be a folder called "Automatically Add to iTunes". iTunes Media dir, not the Music folder
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# ? Nov 1, 2009 16:24 |
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Dickeye posted:iTunes Media dir, not the Music folder I think you have to have upgraded to iTunes Media organization for this to work. Something I found out last night: if you want to consolidate and organize but don't want iTunes to make duplicate copies of all your music, just put it inside the iTunes Media folder first, then consolidate. iTunes will move files that are already inside the Media folder, and copy files that are outside.
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# ? Nov 1, 2009 22:24 |
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Pontius Pilate posted:I had made sure all the information was consistent but I had missed disc number! Thanks, this was causing me much too much grief. Sort by Album by Artist.
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# ? Nov 2, 2009 03:31 |
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I have a bunch of albums that I only want to use a few songs from each time but I have to listen to them before deleting. What would be the best way to do this in iTunes that won't mess up my current library? I used to just do it in Winamp and then add the songs I keep into iTunes but I'm using Snow Leopard now so I think winamp is out.
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# ? Nov 2, 2009 16:14 |
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Can anyone by chance tell me how to pull a playlist off my ipod nano 5g? All the utilities I have found are for the older gens and don't read the new database. Reason for this is that I made the mistake of trying to use Mediamonkey to manage it with the experimental ipod.dll and it cleared out all the album art and switched a couple. I created a playlist on the ipod in iTunes but as usual iTunes sucks and doesn't allow you to just copy playlists over from the iPod. Any ideas on this one?
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# ? Nov 3, 2009 00:04 |
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Ashex posted:Can anyone by chance tell me how to pull a playlist off my ipod nano 5g? All the utilities I have found are for the older gens and don't read the new database. Reason for this is that I made the mistake of trying to use Mediamonkey to manage it with the experimental ipod.dll and it cleared out all the album art and switched a couple. You can copy the entire contents by viewing hidden files and going into the iPod control folder but you can't view specific playlists so I don't know if you want to do that.
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# ? Nov 3, 2009 00:28 |
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I just moved up to version 9 today, is there any way to get my old view back? I liked having windows for genre, artist, and album. There are too many screens now to browse around and find something I want, and making a playlist for every album is a waste of my time. I can't seem to find the option anywhere, what am I missing?
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# ? Nov 3, 2009 23:31 |
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Syjefroi posted:I just moved up to version 9 today, is there any way to get my old view back? I liked having windows for genre, artist, and album. There are too many screens now to browse around and find something I want, and making a playlist for every album is a waste of my time. I can't seem to find the option anywhere, what am I missing?
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# ? Nov 3, 2009 23:37 |
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Charlie Mopps posted:View -> Column Browser? Ah, that did it. I did that earlier, but I forgot to change it from Left to Top, thanks
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# ? Nov 3, 2009 23:40 |
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e: eh, seems to have fixed itself.
SebAndSeb fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Nov 5, 2009 |
# ? Nov 4, 2009 09:26 |
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Does 8 or 9 handle really large libraries any better than 7?
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# ? Nov 6, 2009 07:15 |
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Chris Knight posted:Does 8 or 9 handle really large libraries any better than 7? Yes, but it still has issues. It is faster at starting up and shutting down, but many actions still cause lag. What's your definition of really large?
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# ? Nov 6, 2009 07:28 |
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chimz posted:Yes, but it still has issues. It is faster at starting up and shutting down, but many actions still cause lag. Around 60,000 songs. I imagine that any action lag is inevitable after a certain point, unless I put everything on SSD EDIT: this stupid new window in iTunes 9 that shows up when your playlist is blank is going to drive me beserk. That, and how when you go to edit multiple files the options like gapless album, compilation, etc. are all removed from the main window to Options. Bleah. Chris Knight fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Nov 6, 2009 |
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OK, an actual question that's been bugging me since I decided to try to consolidate a lot of the music I have lying around. I have a bunch of custom compilations that are made up of individual tracks fully tagged with the source Artist, Album and Name. What I'd like to do is group by a custom Album tag somehow without losing the individual Album tags. So I grab one of them, put Sort Album as eg. "Great White North, Volume 3" and check Part Of A Compilation on. However, when I go into the iTunes Library, "Great White North, Volume 3" doesn't show up as one of the Albums listed, it seems to just grab one of the original Album tags and throw everything under it. All the tags were ID2.3 before I started, so there should be no 1.x ones lying around to confuse the issue. Maybe what I'm asking for is impossible? I started small, just 2 custom comps and one regular album:
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Chris Knight posted:OK, an actual question that's been bugging me since I decided to try to consolidate a lot of the music I have lying around. I've been trying to figure this one out myself for a while. It seems that, unless there's something titled with the actual title you're using for Sort Album, iTunes will just pull the album title from the first track and use that. If you add one track or even just a PDF or something else iTunes will let you add and give it the actual album title you want and don't touch the sort album tag, suddenly everything shows up properly. Not the best solution, but outside of reporting it as a bug there's not much else I've found that can be done.
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# ? Nov 6, 2009 21:01 |
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Chris Knight posted:Around 60,000 songs. I imagine that any action lag is inevitable after a certain point, unless I put everything on SSD Putting the library file on an SSD definitely helps. I wouldn't put the actual media files on one unless you've got a lot of money to splurge. I've got a significantly larger library than that and iTunes lags like a bitch sometimes but is still usable. It depends on your Mac too, my Macbook struggles with it but my Hackintosh desktop runs it much faster.
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# ? Nov 6, 2009 22:00 |
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I have my music sorted in folders and then add it all to the library. Is there a way to make a playlist or smart playlist that just pulls the music from a certain folder? I have all my sports facility's music in one folder because it is clean and would rather not have it hunt it down each time in the library I reload it or change the playlist. edit: nm I never knew I could drag directly from finder into a playlist Alfalfa fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Nov 6, 2009 |
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Why is it that whenever I play through a song all the way until the end it erases the last part of my track. For example, I play Encore by Jay-Z which is 3 of 14. After it is done it just displays 3. Why is that?
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# ? Nov 7, 2009 02:27 |
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After organizing my music, I am having a little trouble with loading my entire itunes library over to ipod. With a few artists, I have some full albums and then a few random singles. In the itunes folder, the singles are under the original artist in a folder entitled Unknown. The songs that are in this folder will play on itunes but will not transfer to my ipod. Does anyone know why this is exactly? For clarity the itunes folder will look similar to this: Itunes\Akon\Trouble Itunes\Akon\Unknown The first is a full cd and will load to my ipod, while the second is a few songs that will play it itunes but not transfer to my ipod. With my old laptop/itunes, I could load all these songs to my ipod regardless of their album name. If I were to bring it up on my ipod, I could sort by albums but if I just hit all under the artist name it would also show the singles. It no longer is doing that. Does anyone know a way to correct this? HammyJ fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Nov 8, 2009 |
# ? Nov 8, 2009 01:05 |
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So they mentioned in the 9.0.2 release notes that you can change the grid view background back to black, but I can't seem to figure out how. I'm sure this has been answered before but I couldn't find anything.
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# ? Nov 8, 2009 01:27 |
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Apps posted:So they mentioned in the 9.0.2 release notes that you can change the grid view background back to black, but I can't seem to figure out how. I'm sure this has been answered before but I couldn't find anything. It's in the preferences, general tab. Next to where you can change the text size.
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HammyJ posted:After organizing my music, I am having a little trouble with loading my entire itunes library over to ipod. You didn't state it, so I have to ask. Did you label what CD they came from, or did you leave the Album field blank?
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# ? Nov 8, 2009 03:27 |
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IUG posted:You didn't state it, so I have to ask. Did you label what CD they came from, or did you leave the Album field blank? Sorry about that, I leave the Album field blank. After looking through some other forums, I think I have figured out the problem if any one has a similar issue. On some of the newer software, if you have an artist that only has one album, the ipod will just skip over the intermediate screen between artist and album and go straight to songs. It's supposed to be a convenient feature, but if you have random songs of a certain artist that are unsorted, it does not display them. This isn't a problem if the artist you are browsing has more than one album because then it will display the ALL feature. But, if you only have one album, you can't just leave the album field blank. You have to put some sort of title on the singles, I just use "-" instead of album names because I don't want the clutter. Then, the Ipod will display the ALL feature and you can now play your singles along with your album. If this is too confusing, let me know and I'll try and clarify it.
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# ? Nov 8, 2009 16:56 |
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Might be easier to just use the album name field for "Singles" or something, so they're grouped under the Artist tab in your iPod. But yeah, not having an Album field was what was causing the problem, from what I gathered. You can mark them by compilation and then it would put them at the bottom of the list for that artist. However, I think that if you have more than one artist with that album name (such as another band with another "Singles" album), then that "CD" gets put at the bottom of the iTunes list and is sorted as a compilation under that album name.
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# ? Nov 8, 2009 21:49 |
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Is there any way to get a list of authorized devices on your itunes account? I had an ipod stolen and wanted to see if I could get a serial number or something for insurance purposes.
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# ? Nov 11, 2009 20:11 |
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Fix posted:Is there any way to get a list of authorized devices on your itunes account? I had an ipod stolen and wanted to see if I could get a serial number or something for insurance purposes.
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# ? Nov 11, 2009 20:31 |
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Fix posted:Is there any way to get a list of authorized devices on your itunes account? I had an ipod stolen and wanted to see if I could get a serial number or something for insurance purposes. iPods don't get authorized. Computers running iTunes get authorized. So you won't be able to see the iPod if the list were viewable.
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# ? Nov 11, 2009 20:59 |
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Apps posted:Do you still have the box? As a matter of fact, I do. I found it tucked away after asking and got all the info I needed. Thanks anyhow!
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# ? Nov 11, 2009 23:00 |
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Is there a good way to get rid of duplicate songs? I just did a clean install and now I find out that I have like 5 copies of everything...it's like 20K songs now
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# ? Nov 14, 2009 05:20 |
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buzzsaw.gif posted:Is there a good way to get rid of duplicate songs? I just did a clean install and now I find out that I have like 5 copies of everything...it's like 20K songs now File → Show Duplicates.
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# ? Nov 14, 2009 07:04 |
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SineOtter posted:I've been trying to figure this one out myself for a while. It seems that, unless there's something titled with the actual title you're using for Sort Album, iTunes will just pull the album title from the first track and use that. 1) Took my own advice and realized I had 1.x and 2.x tags, so converted them all to 2.4 and killed the 1.x tags, which is always what I'm preaching here 2) Used Media Rage to export all the tags to a delimited file, cleaned that up a bit, then imported it to Excel just to ensure I had a list somewhere, 3) Used Media Rage to move existing Album tags to Comments, 4) Used iTunes to clear out any previous useless Comments, then retagged each volume of the series under the Album tag, ensuring Compilation was on. It worked like a charm, and then I retagged a bunch of other custom comps in a similar way. It's like I always say around here, convert your 1.x tags to 2.x unless you have some crappy device that can't read the new ones, they'll only cause you pain.
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Here's a question I've been wondering about lately... When does a playlist that is NOT "Live Updating" recheck its contents? I don't recall exactly when this changed, but it's been a bit vexing for me. I have a number of Smart Playlists to pump through songs that need to be rated, or ones I just want to have cycled through. For instance, I've got a "30 Coulton minutes" Smart Playlist whose rules are: Match All Playlist is "Jonathan Coulton Selection" (Jonathan Coulton songs rated 4+) Last Played is not in the last 2 days Limit to 35 minutes selected by random. This is a not Live-Updating playlist. If it was Live-Updating, it would cycle in a new song every time one finished playing and the playlist would never stop. It may have been sometime around the time 8.0 released that this changed, but as I recall a non-live-updating playlist used to recheck itself every time I synced my iPod. It doesn't do that anymore. The contents of a non-live-updating playlist will sometimes change when the data it's based on changes, but I can't seem to figure out when or why, besides the times when I'm actually editing the parameters of the Smart Playlist. I may just start making the playlist Live-Updating, but have it depend on a playlist that isn't on the ipod to try and recapture the old behavior.
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