Itunes and my Achin' Ipod

ANTVGM64

Howdy, so I've had a music carried over from computer to computer for essentially since I started highschool. It transferred from an old Desktop, to a newer desktop, to my old laptop, and finally to This Laptop.

This folder does not reside in the "My Music" folder under documents.

This Laptop is the first one I've had with Itunes. and Itunes decided to make a copy of my music folder. As a result, I have two sets of music folders on my computer, both of which are imported on my IPOD, so I have a two copies of every song. This is fine for awhile.

But as I get more music and import it to my music folder, i have to manually import everything.

Here's what i'm wondering. If i wanted to consolidate all the tracks, could I just cut the My Music Folder into the Itunes music folder and click over ride to everything?

Or does that not work because the Itunes music folder is organized differently, and I'd end up with even more duplicates?

I could also just delete the Itunes music folder I suppose, but I also have paid for several albums through itunes, so I wouldn't want to lose those.

sir_pinch-a-loaf

ANTVGM64 wrote: »

Or does that not work because the Itunes music folder is organized differently, and I'd end up with even more duplicates?

I'm pretty sure this will be the case. When Itunes imports and saves to its own folder, I believe it creates a file structure of Artist folder, then Album folder, then Song Title filename. If your original file structure is different, it won't overwrite the Itunes files and you'll have another set of dupes.

mts

if it is all dupes you can just delete the original since it copies it over

LeCaustic

sir_pinch-a-loaf wrote: »

ANTVGM64 wrote: »

Or does that not work because the Itunes music folder is organized differently, and I'd end up with even more duplicates?

I'm pretty sure this will be the case. When Itunes imports and saves to its own folder, I believe it creates a file structure of Artist folder, then Album folder, then Song Title filename. If your original file structure is different, it won't overwrite the Itunes files and you'll have another set of dupes.

And that's why I hate itunes. I don't know why it manages things in the most difficult manner ever conceivable, but it seems analogous to you putting your books in a specified book shelf and then the house cleaner coming in and reorganizing the books in the fucking basement...in boxes.

ANTVGM64

I think the first step is locating all the files that have a (!) next to them, which is quite a few.

Question: If I delete my entire itunes music folder, can I download the albums and such I've bought?

-Loki-

LeCaustic wrote: »

sir_pinch-a-loaf wrote: »

ANTVGM64 wrote: »

Or does that not work because the Itunes music folder is organized differently, and I'd end up with even more duplicates?

I'm pretty sure this will be the case. When Itunes imports and saves to its own folder, I believe it creates a file structure of Artist folder, then Album folder, then Song Title filename. If your original file structure is different, it won't overwrite the Itunes files and you'll have another set of dupes.

And that's why I hate itunes. I don't know why it manages things in the most difficult manner ever conceivable, but it seems analogous to you putting your books in a specified book shelf and then the house cleaner coming in and reorganizing the books in the fucking basement...in boxes.

How is it a bad structure? Artist/Album/tracks always made sense to me. In fact, that's how my music has always been sorted.

ANTVGM64

Yeah I think it has to do with how old some of my collection is. A lot of it is ripped off of OLD CDs I own that are damaged now, and the tagging wasn't 100 percent correct.