jvanwagner
01-01-2006, 11:54 PM
Like a bajillion other people, I got an iPod for Christmas. I'm familiarizing myself with the iTunes software, but there's something that just seems to be stumping me, and it's getting on my nerves.
I ripped all of my CDs about a year ago in the same MP3 format, using the same software (CDex, I believe). They all played just fine, and on my computer, they still do. But iTunes doesn't seem to want to import all of the music when I tell it to.
When I tell iTunes to add a File, it will add the file just fine. If I tell it to add a folder, it'll add the folder just fine, too - usually. I don't know if it's not picking up certain subfolders or what, but a huge chunk of my songs just plain won't show up unless I add them folder-by-folder, or worse, file-by-file.
Example:
../Music/Rock/Green Day/
../Music/Rock/Nirvana/
(../ is shorthand for "whatever the folder is before it; in this case, I just have it all in My Documents/My Music)
This is divided up into subfolders for each band, and each band into subfolders for the albums. When I add the folder:
../Music/
It'll pick up like half of it. It'll get ../Music/Rock/Green Day/American Idiot, ../Music/Rock/Green Day/Insomniac (for those who for some reason don't know, "American Idiot" and "Insomniac" are albums by the band, Green Day; this is how I order some of my songs...), but for some reason it might not get ../Music/Rock/Green Day/Nimrod, even though the folder is there, and the files were all encoded the same way and placed there by the program I used to rip them with a long time ago.
It doesn't just do this for certain levels of subfolders, either. Sometimes it won't get certain albums sorted under a band name, and sometimes it'll skip over a band altogether. I have ../Music/Frank Sinatra/ and all subfolders, but it completely skipped over ../Music/The Beatles/ and all the subfolders it has (HOW DARE!).
It also does not appear to have to do with the volume of music being added. I later went on to add the folder ../Music/DragonForce/ , and it only added ../Music/DragonForce/Inhuman Rampage and ../Music/DragonForce/Valley of the Damned, but not ../Music/DragonForce/Sonic Firestorm .
I'm lost on this one.
I seriously have too much music, and I know it. I need to go in and trim off what I don't really listen to that much; but even then, I'd have enough music that I'd want on my iPod that it would take hours to go through and manually select and add every album from every artist individually. So, in other words, I really do need some help.
I ripped all of my CDs about a year ago in the same MP3 format, using the same software (CDex, I believe). They all played just fine, and on my computer, they still do. But iTunes doesn't seem to want to import all of the music when I tell it to.
When I tell iTunes to add a File, it will add the file just fine. If I tell it to add a folder, it'll add the folder just fine, too - usually. I don't know if it's not picking up certain subfolders or what, but a huge chunk of my songs just plain won't show up unless I add them folder-by-folder, or worse, file-by-file.
Example:
../Music/Rock/Green Day/
../Music/Rock/Nirvana/
(../ is shorthand for "whatever the folder is before it; in this case, I just have it all in My Documents/My Music)
This is divided up into subfolders for each band, and each band into subfolders for the albums. When I add the folder:
../Music/
It'll pick up like half of it. It'll get ../Music/Rock/Green Day/American Idiot, ../Music/Rock/Green Day/Insomniac (for those who for some reason don't know, "American Idiot" and "Insomniac" are albums by the band, Green Day; this is how I order some of my songs...), but for some reason it might not get ../Music/Rock/Green Day/Nimrod, even though the folder is there, and the files were all encoded the same way and placed there by the program I used to rip them with a long time ago.
It doesn't just do this for certain levels of subfolders, either. Sometimes it won't get certain albums sorted under a band name, and sometimes it'll skip over a band altogether. I have ../Music/Frank Sinatra/ and all subfolders, but it completely skipped over ../Music/The Beatles/ and all the subfolders it has (HOW DARE!).
It also does not appear to have to do with the volume of music being added. I later went on to add the folder ../Music/DragonForce/ , and it only added ../Music/DragonForce/Inhuman Rampage and ../Music/DragonForce/Valley of the Damned, but not ../Music/DragonForce/Sonic Firestorm .
I'm lost on this one.
I seriously have too much music, and I know it. I need to go in and trim off what I don't really listen to that much; but even then, I'd have enough music that I'd want on my iPod that it would take hours to go through and manually select and add every album from every artist individually. So, in other words, I really do need some help.