Hello guys,
I have a 30GB library with music. Once I imported all this library into itunes with the option "organize my music"...honestly, it was a mess (also becaue of the fact that a lot of songs Itunes could simply not recognize...songs from various countries around the globe) + I like my organization that i have on my hard-drive...all orgnized neatly, I want the same structure in my itunes.So this time, I am doing it from scratch but without "keep Itunes folder organized"
And have a few questions i could not figure out even after googling for answers:
1. Copy files to Itunes Media folder when adding to library
Basically here I only want to know what would be the implication if I don't use this. I.e. I will leave my music where it currently is on my hard-drive (C:/Musika). I understand that once I import the songs, Itunes doesn't really care where the song are. I.e. it is probably not necessary to "copy the files into Itunes Media folder".
But if I have it this way (i.e. outside the indiginous Media Folder which Itunes uses), will there be any issues later say with backing up my itunes?
Or say I buy a new laptop and want migrate all of that to a new disc?
And is the capacity to recognize songs etc. influenced or reduced if I don't import (including the copying of the songs) into the Itunes Media folder?
2. Automatically download album artwork option + Share details about your library with Apple.
Okay, I am manually importing one folder after another, making sure it's properly organized by artist, name of songs, and album. It seems that Itunes is however often not capable of recognizing my songs..or recognizes them weirdly. Whout using the above function help me solve the problem? Or how to go about this in general. So far I had to manually find the image of certain CDs that were not recognized...I download the image from the web in jpg format, then linked it with the proper album..etc. You can imagine how much time this takes. I am looking for ways to increase the capability that Itunes recognizes as much as possible. What do I need to do?
Also, what happened to me with a fair known title: Air (band), Walkie Talkie (album). It imported in such a way that all songs were named Air, and the Artist took the names of each individual song..i.e. completely the reverse. Of course changing his manually was a pain. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?
(you should know that my songs come from all over the place...some are copied from my CDs, some I got from friends, some on the internet, some are bought...etc.)
3. Itunes Media folder location
If I change that, does this have any impact whatsoever at the functionality? (should not..but with this software, one never knows).
Guys I'll appreciate your feedback. Thanks.
I have a 30GB library with music. Once I imported all this library into itunes with the option "organize my music"...honestly, it was a mess (also becaue of the fact that a lot of songs Itunes could simply not recognize...songs from various countries around the globe) + I like my organization that i have on my hard-drive...all orgnized neatly, I want the same structure in my itunes.So this time, I am doing it from scratch but without "keep Itunes folder organized"
And have a few questions i could not figure out even after googling for answers:
1. Copy files to Itunes Media folder when adding to library
Basically here I only want to know what would be the implication if I don't use this. I.e. I will leave my music where it currently is on my hard-drive (C:/Musika). I understand that once I import the songs, Itunes doesn't really care where the song are. I.e. it is probably not necessary to "copy the files into Itunes Media folder".
But if I have it this way (i.e. outside the indiginous Media Folder which Itunes uses), will there be any issues later say with backing up my itunes?
Or say I buy a new laptop and want migrate all of that to a new disc?
And is the capacity to recognize songs etc. influenced or reduced if I don't import (including the copying of the songs) into the Itunes Media folder?
2. Automatically download album artwork option + Share details about your library with Apple.
Okay, I am manually importing one folder after another, making sure it's properly organized by artist, name of songs, and album. It seems that Itunes is however often not capable of recognizing my songs..or recognizes them weirdly. Whout using the above function help me solve the problem? Or how to go about this in general. So far I had to manually find the image of certain CDs that were not recognized...I download the image from the web in jpg format, then linked it with the proper album..etc. You can imagine how much time this takes. I am looking for ways to increase the capability that Itunes recognizes as much as possible. What do I need to do?
Also, what happened to me with a fair known title: Air (band), Walkie Talkie (album). It imported in such a way that all songs were named Air, and the Artist took the names of each individual song..i.e. completely the reverse. Of course changing his manually was a pain. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?
(you should know that my songs come from all over the place...some are copied from my CDs, some I got from friends, some on the internet, some are bought...etc.)
3. Itunes Media folder location
If I change that, does this have any impact whatsoever at the functionality? (should not..but with this software, one never knows).
Guys I'll appreciate your feedback. Thanks.