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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / July 2008iTunes questions
Some albums in iTunes get split into more than one folder with duplicate art work. Will iTunes get messed up if you manually move them back to one folder? If you change the artwork via a program like Coverscout, will it update correctly next time you sync your iPod to iTunes? Thanks Lyndon > Some albums in iTunes get split into more than one folder with duplicate > art work. Will iTunes get messed up if you manually move them back to > one folder? The proper way to fix that is to: 1. Select (highlight) the problem songs in the iTunes window. 2. From the iTunes menu bar, choose File > Get Info. 3. If you selected only one songs, click the Info tab at the top of the window. 4. Change the Artist, Album, and Genre fields to match the other songs in the album. 5. Repeat for other songs in other albums. > If you change the artwork via a program like Coverscout, will it update > correctly next time you sync your iPod to iTunes? No idea - haven't ever seen or used Coverscout. You can change the artwork directly in iTunes though. And, in general, if the artwork for a given song is change in iTunes, the next time you synchronize that song with your iPod, the change will show there as well.  SignatureSend responses to the relevant news group rather than to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR > > Some albums in iTunes get split into more than one folder with duplicate > > art work. Will iTunes get messed up if you manually move them back to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > in the album. > 5. Repeat for other songs in other albums. If the album contains songs from several artists, it will be split into several folders, one for each artist. The solution to this is to check the "Part of a compilation" box (one song selected) or change "Compilation" to Yes (several songs selected). This will cause the songs to be placed together in one folder with the name of the album, inside a "Compilations" folder instead of the usual artist-named folder. The genre shouldn't affect the placement into folders. In article <wayne.morris-2A2F27.12530308072008@shawnews.wp.shawcable.net>, > The genre shouldn't affect the placement into folders. Yeah. I'm not sure why I even mentioned it... SignatureSend responses to the relevant news group rather than to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR > In article > <wayne.morris-2A2F27.12530308072008@shawnews.wp.shawcable.net>, > > > The genre shouldn't affect the placement into folders. > > Yeah. I'm not sure why I even mentioned it... Playing with "genre" gives you another way to access things in iPod, however. SignatureMary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar) You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo > > In article > > <wayne.morris-2A2F27.12530308072008@shawnews.wp.shawcable.net>, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Playing with "genre" gives you another way to access things in iPod, > however. Yes - good point. SignatureSend responses to the relevant news group rather than to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR > Some albums in iTunes get split into more than one folder with duplicate > art work. Will iTunes get messed up if you manually move them back to > one folder? Just to make JR's respose very clear: _yes_, this will screw things up. Don't do it. If you move files in the iTunes Music Library manually, iTunes won't be able to find them when you go to play them next. (And when you 're-point' iTunes to their new location, it may try to move them back if you have 'Keep iTunes Music Library Organized' on.) If you're using iTunes to organize your music library, use it exclusively; don't try to futz around manually in there. Organization should be done by changing the tags on the files from within iTunes, not through the Finder. > If you change the artwork via a program like Coverscout, will it update > correctly next time you sync your iPod to iTunes? I've never used Coverscout (at least I don't think so), but I've used another program that grabbed album images from Amazon and put them into MP3 files, and they synched just fine to my iPod. That was the real reason why I did it. -Kadin. > > Some albums in iTunes get split into more than one folder with duplicate > > art work. Will iTunes get messed up if you manually move them back to [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > manually, iTunes won't be able to find them when you go to play them > next. This is not strictly true. As long as you move the files *within* a single volume, iTunes will be able to find them. If you move to a different volume, you'll break the association. But as you continue: There's no guarantee iTunes will leave it where you put it afterwards. > (And when you 're-point' iTunes to their new location, it may > try to move them back if you have 'Keep iTunes Music Library [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > should be done by changing the tags on the files from within iTunes, > not through the Finder. Signature"Harry?" Ron's voice was a mere whisper. "Do you smell something ... burning?" - Harry Potter and the Odor of the Phoenix > This is not strictly true. As long as you move the files *within* a > single volume, iTunes will be able to find them. If you move to a > different volume, you'll break the association. You're correct. This should be kept in mind when reading my earlier comment; as long as the move is on the same volume it won't break the links. I still wonder whether iTunes will attempt to "clean up" files that have been moved out of their proper place in the Music Library, though. I suppose it probably won't if the link doesn't get broken. -Kadin. > > This is not strictly true. As long as you move the files *within* a > > single volume, iTunes will be able to find them. If you move to a [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > -Kadin. The vocabulary is part of the problem here. iTunes is at the core a _cataloging_ application, and your iTunes Library is not in any sense a library of any kind -- it's a _catalog_. For whatever reasons, Apple relentlessly encourages users to "import their tunes into the iTunes Library" in a way that allows iTunes to position or reposition the actual files into the "iTunes Music" folder, in a subfolder structure that it designs and controls. If you, for whatever reason, would prefer to keep your "tunes" or other audio files in some other folder structure of your own designing and use iTunes only to catalog and play them, without relocating them, you can do this; but it requires changing some poorly documented defaults from the very beginning. And the term "catalog" is, so far as I can tell, absolutely never, ever used anywhere in any of Apple's iTunes documentation. > > > This is not strictly true. As long as you move the files *within* a > > > single volume, iTunes will be able to find them. If you move to a [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > position or reposition the actual files into the "iTunes Music" folder, > in a subfolder structure that it designs and controls. Wouldn't that, by itself, qualify as a "library" function? Why complicate the discussion by introducing still more terminology? > If you, for whatever reason, would prefer to keep your "tunes" or other > audio files in some other folder structure of your own designing and use [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > And the term "catalog" is, so far as I can tell, absolutely never, ever > used anywhere in any of Apple's iTunes documentation. SignatureTom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF |
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