Problems

Its bloody done it again , ITUNES SUCKS!! Im going back to wmp , and ill be using ephpod.

Hi Aspect,

Sorry you are having problems. Why don't you give us a run down of what steps you went through in the install and importation of your library. Tell us how it changed the layout of your tunes as well. Perhaps we can tell you HOW you ended up with doubles and HOW you can fix it. If you react with frustration and give up you could easily miss out on a great program. Take a step back, a deep breath, and maybe a solution can be found.

Cheers,
Stu

Maybe ill try it again another day , but ive lost my rag with it for now. I had my collection how i wanted it , but now its all messed up :(

Originally posted by Lead
I just dragged my music folder into the song area and all the songs 'moved' over without trouble. I couldn't get the 'Import' to work :confused:

Why not just go to File -> Add Folder. This does what you are trying to do. Importing is not necessary and sounds like it does more harm than good.

I too will recomend you not use the auto import, and insted go and use the "add folder" function. I chose one folder containing somewhere around 8 gigs of music (in various sub folders) and had no problem with itunes at all. No crash, and everything showed up.

Originally posted by Aspect
Maybe ill try it again another day , but ive lost my rag with it for now. I had my collection how i wanted it , but now its all messed up :(

In iTunes preferences, look under the Advanced tab to see if "keep itunes music folder organized" is checked. That feature organizes your music folder to the itunes default (Artist-->Album-->Song). Deselect this feature, and you can use your own system to organize your music.

Hope this helps.

Chris

I just had the same problem i turned off the auto organising deleted my library and readded it again.

No problems

By selecting library in the source window of iTunes you will get a listing of all your songs that have been put into itunes. You can select view options to choose which tags appear in the library window. You can then choose how to sort the songs by album, length, artist, song, etc. Up or down.

Another powerful tool to look at your music library is the browse function. Click on browse in the upper right corner and you can select and look at songs just like on the ipod.

Of course most of the Mac community is going to say it is worth it and that you aren't seeing something. Listen to all the good comments (see itunes rules thread). Now I'm not saying you can't be happy with something else. What is best about itunes is that it was MADE to sync and manage your tunes onto the ipod. Don't give up on itunes until you have used it with your ipod. That would be my opinion.

Maybe you can try out itunes with a smaller selection of your music library to see it's power?

Good luck,
Stu

Is there anyway to "un####" the damage that Itunes has done to my directory structure? I have in excess of 4000 songs, I had them in a logical order that it seemingly didn't agree with, so it made almost as many folders, for each song!!! #### I hate apple...

I know that realistically, there is no way to undo that, however, is there a way to change the filename setup. Previously I had my filenames setup to read almost like the ID3 tag. Mine was setup like this.

artist - song title.mp3

and this program saw fit to change everything to this

song title.mp3
(artist , album)

There has to be a way to change that.