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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11430
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 12:42 pm: |     |
I imported some CD's on my laptop, but I don't want that to be my permanent copy in itunes. I copied the files from my laptop to my Mac desktop, but how do I get itunes to recognize the entire folder? Ideally, I'd like to fold it into the existing folder.
I want to delete the copies from my laptop, because it's company owned and because there isn't much disk space.
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Smarty Jones
Citizen
Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 59
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 1:00 pm: | |
I just went through this with iTunes. Are all of your files copies you made from your discs, or are any of them iTunes downloads? Also, is the format the iTunes MAC format (which is different than the iTunes PC format)? |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11433
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 1:29 pm: | |
The laptop runs windows. Are you sure there are different format FILES? I realize the mac and windows format the DISK differently. Files from both computers have the .m4a extension in the names. The files are from CD's that I own, i.e. they are not downloads.
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Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 8186
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 1:35 pm: | |
If there aren't that many CDs, just delete them from the Windoze thing and re-import from CDs on the Mac. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11437
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 1:57 pm: | |
But Dave, that's what computers are for, saving time and providing shortcuts through innovative hardware and software. The software should recognize the files that it created. If you want me to re-import CD's, I might as well type in the bits with a text editor. 
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TomD
Citizen
Username: Tomd
Post Number: 344
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 2:08 pm: | |
On Windows, it would just be File|Add Folder to Library, but if you ripped the files as something other than MP3 (as is the itunes default) then you may have trouble and need to re-import depending on what, if any DRM itunes might have added.
If you allowed itunes to "manage your music library" for you (boo, hiss) then itunes will then deposit your files wherever it sees fit and make managing them outside of itunes all but impossible. |
AlleyGater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1043
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 2:27 pm: | |
I'm not sure what the issue is Noglider (one too many Toms in this thread).
If you want mp3 or mp4 files on a new computer, you copy them over to the new computer where you want them to be on the HD. Then drag that folder wherever it resides into a playlist in the Itunes window. Or as TomD mentioned you can go up to the File menu and choose to add a song or folder and navigate to it.
The only confusion that I can think of would be that there is a preference in iTunes that allows the computer to copy files to itunes Music folder (which will create a duplicate file on your HD wasting space but admittedly making it very easy to find all your mp3 files in one folder). I hate this feature, it's always off on my machine.
Alternately, if you want to delete music, well IMO that is where iTunes falls REALLY flat for me. You need to first kill the files on the HD where you don't want them. Then go into iTunes and kill the songs out of any playlist they might be in, AND also clean them out of your Library. The worst aspect is that there is no way of knowing (easily at least) which files are essentially orphaned. You could double click them all -- groan. I believe there are applescripts that can be run over iTunes that will help you eliminate the orphans. I suspect this is where Monster comes in.
Ohhhhh Monster!!!!! Where are you????
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11440
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 2:34 pm: | |
Alleygater, that drag-n-drop tip was just what I needed. And the other stuff is excellent, too. I knew about the duplicates and orphans.
How do I turn off the feature of copying to my itunes folder?
Thanks so much!
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11443
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 3:01 pm: | |
And the good news is that since I copied the stuff from my laptop into a single folder, once I did the drag-n-drop, I could delete the folder. So now I do not have duplicates of the files.
And it's always OK to call me noglider. That is my name.
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AlleyGater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1048
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 4:09 pm: | |
To turn off the copying feature, go to the Preferences and click on the Advanced tab. You will see it there, "copy files to itunes Music folder" |
monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 1753
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 5:59 pm: | |
I prefer to keep the "copy files to iTunes Music folder" preference checked, this way when I add music to my iTunes Library it gets copied directly to an external drive that I use only for my music files, the location of this drive is easy enough to configure under the advanced section of the preference. If you keep the option to keep your library organized it will automatically put the files from the CD's into the right folders.
There is an app that will allow you to have more than one iTunes library, and to choose the one you want, when yo want it.
A good place to start for some great scripts, http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php |
AlleyGater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1052
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 6:11 pm: | |
I love saying, "I told you so".
Thanks 'Ster |
monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 1754
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 2:53 am: | |
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