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Dubstep Jesus posted:If all the files are already on an external disk you could probably just copy the library file over and open it with iTunes assuming the drive letter is the same between machines. yeah, but I want to shift all the music off the external disk onto the internal disk, since the new laptop with a bigger hdd was the major push to buy a new one.
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Laserface posted:yeah, but I want to shift all the music off the external disk onto the internal disk, since the new laptop with a bigger hdd was the major push to buy a new one. As long as your library is consolidated (all the files are in your iTunes Library folder) you literally just have to move the folder. iTunes will ask where the hell the library went when you relaunch it, and you can point it at the new folder. (If it doesn't ask - sometimes it just makes a new library in the default location - you can hold the shift key while you launch iTunes and that will prompt it to ask.)
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Oct 21, 2016 00:36
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Cool. For the most part, they are all in that folder. There is a few outliers that she added to iTunes without the external disk connected which futzed things up a bit but I can add those in later. Moving forward, I am assuming the best method for managing music is setting up iTunes as a 'black hole' of sorts? ie telling iTunes to manage music and copy to the iTunes folder, then just drag/drop into itunes?
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Oct 21, 2016 05:31
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Consolidate the library and set iTunes to automatically manage the files before you move the library. I don't know what will happen if you try to move the folder otherwise.
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Oct 21, 2016 05:42
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Anyone having issues with up next not working when you're playing a radio station? It seems as if any song I put into the up next queue just sits there while the radio station keeps its songs.
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Oct 21, 2016 06:38
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Is "Automatically Add to iTunes" completely bugged for anyone else? When I put tracks in there, I'll get anywhere from 3 to 8 copies of it showing up in the library, and the actual files aren't getting moved into library folders. I've made sure "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" is still checked. I've been able to use this for literally thousands of albums so I'm assuming it's a problem with the new update (Windows 10).
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Nov 2, 2016 14:54
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Automatically add seems to work fine for me, but I can't even do it now, thanks to having the iTunes Match crashing bug, where any time iTunes tries to match a new track it crashes in about 30 seconds. I hope they fix this soon, it only got introduced in the release a week or so ago, and yesterday's update didn't fix it.
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Nov 2, 2016 18:02
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The app store wants to update my iTunes to 12.5.3 over and over again. Anyone else having this?
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Nov 3, 2016 15:14
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Apple broke my new music workflow. For years, I've used a smart playlist to show tracks with a play count of 0. As I listened to those tracks, I would then use star ratings to highlight the stuff liked. iOS 10 broke that workflow by removing star ratings from the Music app. I just realized I could use iTunes on my work Mac, but now I find that while it syncs star ratings back to my other devices, for some goddamn reason it doesn't sync play counts. Any idea why it would sync one but not the other? What the gently caress? Why can't things just work. 
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Nov 3, 2016 16:30
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I think play counts have never synced.
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Nov 3, 2016 18:13
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Play counts have always synced, I have many playlists that rely on that. I'll have to check tonight/tomorrow to make sure what I'm listening to now at work increases when I get home. But I have movie tickets for tonight, so I may not get to that.
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Nov 3, 2016 18:21
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Minidust posted:Is "Automatically Add to iTunes" completely bugged for anyone else? When I put tracks in there, I'll get anywhere from 3 to 8 copies of it showing up in the library, and the actual files aren't getting moved into library folders. I've made sure "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" is still checked. I've been able to use this for literally thousands of albums so I'm assuming it's a problem with the new update (Windows 10). Schpyder posted:Automatically add seems to work fine for me, but I can't even do it now, thanks to having the iTunes Match crashing bug, where any time iTunes tries to match a new track it crashes in about 30 seconds. I hope they fix this soon, it only got introduced in the release a week or so ago, and yesterday's update didn't fix it. So that weird behavior before was just iTunes seeing stuff in the "Automatically Add" folder... trying to create a new album folder but being denied the permission... adding the stuff to the library anyway, without moving it (because the folder it wants to move it to can't be created)... then, since the stuff is still sitting in the "Automatically Add" folder, it gets added to the library again and again. Minidust fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Nov 4, 2016 15:15
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Does anyone have information in the iTunes Library XML file is laid out? I'm building a parser for this and I'd like to confirm that albums and artists are always grouped together, but there's nothing out there about the file.
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Nov 8, 2016 00:13
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Why does that matter? Any decent parser for a language like XML should not care one bit which fields are next to each other, and just be using the key to determine what type of data each field is.
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Nov 8, 2016 22:48
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GokieKS posted:Why does that matter? Any decent parser for a language like XML should not care one bit which fields are next to each other, and just be using the key to determine what type of data each field is. The fallback is, as you pointed out, just waiting till I read in the entire file to have this information which is what I currently do. Master_Odin fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Nov 8, 2016 |
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Nov 8, 2016 23:52
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You shouldn't have to wait for the entire file if you want it "on-the-fly", as each song has its own key within the Track section, so you can always just have it output after every track. E: Here's how the Track section starts from a sample XML I exported: code:GokieKS fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Nov 9, 2016 |
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Nov 9, 2016 00:01
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Yes, but I can't say "You've got artist (Yuki Kajiura) with albums x, y, z" without reading in all albums by an artist. My question being at what point do I know that I've hit all albums for a particular artist and my hope being that the answer wasn't "once you hit the end of the file".
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Nov 9, 2016 00:27
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Oh, I see, you're asking about the entire dict section of a track rather than the artist/album fields within each track. Yeah, there's not going to be any guarantee about that - I think the order is actually based on sort order in iTunes when it's exported, but I'm not 100% on that.
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Nov 9, 2016 01:02
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Can you not delete songs from your library if you're looking at it in a playlist? I was trying to delete a song when I was in a playlist but I couldn't get the "Delete from library" thing to pop up unless I was looking at the entire library.
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Nov 9, 2016 22:25
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keevo posted:Can you not delete songs from your library if you're looking at it in a playlist? I was trying to delete a song when I was in a playlist but I couldn't get the "Delete from library" thing to pop up unless I was looking at the entire library. it shows up for me in playlist view 
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Nov 9, 2016 22:39
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Yes I am reading reading reading and playing around w iTunes and having a few questions about the flow of stuff, especially automation, and how it compares to the Zune software that i'm a bit more familiar with. I have a fairly large library, 500gb or more, mainly accumulated from years of radio DJing. It's all pretty meticulous in folders (d:\music\albumartist - album\artist - title.mp3 for example), and tags and artwork are also about 97% complete. I would very much prefer to keep it in this sort of a structure, since I may use one of several programs to access this depending on task, and being able to find a particular track is a must for editors and Audition, etc. I also still have and use a 80gb Zune- I treat the zune software the same. Because of size, both programs are set for manual syncing, I am OK with this With the zune software, they're very big on monitoring folders. I can set a monitored folder as d:\music, and when I move folders in there, it updates in the software. If I edit tags on something existing, it updates in the software. Is this what the "itunes media folder location" option is? Currently set as c:\users\me\music\itunes\itunes media this folder also contains some folders (automatic add to itunes, downloads) Just tried changing that option to d:\music and it doesnt seem to auto add items i drop into d:\music My library stays pretty static, so if the answer is "put poo poo where i want it and then rescan", then I can be fine w that for itunes Am I doing this wrong? On the playback side of things, I don't have a real pref between the i and Z programs(once things are organized obviously), but I'm also just as likely to navigate to a folder and right click->play in winamp. I'm not so much concerned about playing, I'm open to playlists and smart views and all that and am pretty confident I can find my way around that
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Nov 10, 2016 21:43
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Last Chance posted:it shows up for me in playlist view That's weird. It's not showing up for me. 
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Nov 10, 2016 23:15
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keevo posted:That's weird. It's not showing up for me. Ohh it's because yours is a smart playlist. My smart playlists don't have it either. drat
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Nov 10, 2016 23:41
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Shift+Delete (or whatever works in Apple) should work, but you generally can't delete files from a smart playlist.
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Nov 11, 2016 00:12
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IUG posted:Play counts have always synced, I have many playlists that rely on that. I'll have to check tonight/tomorrow to make sure what I'm listening to now at work increases when I get home. But I have movie tickets for tonight, so I may not get to that. Did you ever get a chance to test this?
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Nov 11, 2016 03:26
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Kobayashi posted:Did you ever get a chance to test this? Yeah, they do count up for me. Music I've added and listened to only on my phone has a playcount of one right now.
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Nov 11, 2016 13:17
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:Yes I am reading reading reading and playing around w iTunes and having a few questions about the flow of stuff, especially automation, and how it compares to the Zune software that i'm a bit more familiar with. I have a fairly large library, 500gb or more, mainly accumulated from years of radio DJing. It's all pretty meticulous in folders (d:\music\albumartist - album\artist - title.mp3 for example), and tags and artwork are also about 97% complete. I would very much prefer to keep it in this sort of a structure, since I may use one of several programs to access this depending on task, and being able to find a particular track is a must for editors and Audition, etc. I also still have and use a 80gb Zune- I treat the zune software the same. Because of size, both programs are set for manual syncing, I am OK with this Auto-adding stuff is exclusively a function of that "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder you mentioned. Anything you place in that folder will show up in the iTunes library immediately with tags intact. There's an option to allow iTunes to manage your files, which I like to use. This affects things like filename and directory structure. So like, if you edit the name of an album in iTunes, the actual folder containing the music files gets renamed too. If you care about your tags/metadata, stay far away from Apple Music (the subscription service). It has a habit of bulldozing album art to match whatever's on their cloud servers (often with strange choices from left-field compilation covers). But iTunes itself won't take liberties with your metadata, unless you ask it to find missing album art.
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Nov 11, 2016 15:33
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Minidust posted:
Do folders/files put into this dump folder then get moved to the general itunes media folder, or do they sit in the auto add folder? I think I'm going to dive in and try to embrace it. I've begun a bit of a re-org of my library anyway. Part of the reason it got so large was doing a lot of DJing and wanting to keep a bit of everything on hand. What I listen to on a regular basis might be about half of that, so I've been moving "good" stuff to d:\music and "bad" stuff to d:\notmusic and then not including the bad location in any of the auto folders. I can still index everythin in the broadcast software, but keep that separate from what I listen to and want to be able to sync to a device. Depending on the answer to the above, this might work pretty dece for the flow I also noticed that files starting with a leading dot do not get added when the folder is scanned. Definitely not a big deal as I can just rename them without the dot. I blanked everything and was playing with just a few folders worth of tunes. One of them happened to start with .357 and i was like WTF becuase i had 10 folders and only 9 albums were showing up.
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Nov 11, 2016 15:52
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:Do folders/files put into this dump folder then get moved to the general itunes media folder, or do they sit in the auto add folder? I've had iTunes managing the files from the start so I'm not sure what happens without that option checked. Maybe it still creates the folders but won't rename things based on future tag edits you make in iTunes.
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Nov 11, 2016 16:10
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh why is the sort order a-z then 0-9?
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Nov 13, 2016 08:21
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh why is the sort order a-z then 0-9? That's how it's always been. But if you tell iTunes to use the "Sort by" field, you can get around this. So your 98° can be "Ninety Eight Degrees", and sorted under the Ns.
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My iTunes Library recently emptied. I can't exactly remember what caused it (I *think* it moved out of the Shared folder, where I've kept it for years, to my home folder during an update) but it didn't take much to get things back on track. The one problem is that all my 'Date Added' data has reset to the same day as a result. I've tried living with it for a week or two but I really miss being able to use Date Added for smart playlists and sorting. I have a Time Machine backup from before the reset happened but I'm unsure how to use it to get the dates back to normal - should I restore all my music files or can I do something clever an index or something?
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Nov 14, 2016 11:51
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You should just need the library file. Date Added/Last Played aren't stored in the mp3s themselves.
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh why is the sort order a-z then 0-9? Because more things are named with letters than numbers.
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IUG posted:You should just need the library file. Date Added/Last Played aren't stored in the mp3s themselves. This worked. Thanks!
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Nov 15, 2016 09:33
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Mad about colored backgrounds now. Updated to the latest 12.5.3? whatever version and it now looks like every other drat library program. That little bit of color based off the artwork color on the selected album was a nifty touch in the recent/album views. What was the latest version with that, 12.4.latest? Is there a slider I'm missing somewhere for the album art size in artist view beside gently caress-off huge? In artist view, the list of artists had icons that were either album covers or stacks, now its just the music note icon. Is this another 12.5 item that reverting to older will put back? Is all of this a moot point with iOS10 needing this latest version, or are there workarounds?
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Did the latest update break the remote app? It pairs but can't find my library EDIT: nevermind restart fixed it, still have no idea why it broke in the first place though AlmightyBob fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Nov 20, 2016 |
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Nov 20, 2016 17:48
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The latest update will detect of your computer is connected to a Bluetooth speaker, and you can adjust the volume of iTunes independently of your volume for non Bluetooth mode. Works great for me as my laptop is connected to speakers via aux, but I have a Bluetooth speaker on my bedroom for when I want to listen there instead.
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Nov 20, 2016 21:39
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Does any suffer from randomly deleted songs? I'm on Apple Music, and songs from albums I add from it will just disappear. Not grey out, just flat out disappear. Or sometimes a track at the beginning of the album will go to the end of the album, or appear in its own album. I have no idea what causes this but it's been happening ever since I joined and I'm bound and determined to figure this out. I can fix it by deleting the album and adding it again but goddamn that's annoying. e: like what the gently caress 
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I actually had that issue with locally synced stuff without Music. One day half the tracks in my syncing playlist were just gone (original files still there though). ==== Speaking of Apple Music, I'm sure there used to be a dedicated thread but I tried a few forums and I guess it's either dropped off or it's not using the Apple tag. So I had a trial on one of my accounts ages ago, and I fancied trying it again and on my main account it said I could have a trial (the join screen said 90 day free trial and asked me to choose a subscription type for after this expired). It then said I had to transfer my Apple ID to this device which is locked for 3 months (which means I'm probably locked out from logging into my UK account should I need to now? Which is a bit crappy and pointless) and then everything after this seems to indicate I'm not on a trial at all but have just paid for a month of Music. Is there any where I can confirm this, and request a cancellation if so?
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