I am in the process of ripping my 600+ CD collection using CDex to an external hardrive to be used with iTunes and my 80GB iPod.
I rip the CD's during the week and sync it with the iPod each weekend. This weekend before the sync I decided I'd try to clean up the music folder on the harddrive that iTunes points to. I wasn't happy with the way it was organizing my music:
"Beatles" - 3 albums
"Beatles, The" - 7 albums
"The Beatles" - 3 albums
In the example above I'd cut and paste the 3 albums in "Beatles" and 3 albums in "The Beatles" to "Beatles, The".
I deleted my iTunes Library in iTunes and reloaded the re-organized files from the hard drive folder. I didn't realize that you had to unselect the option for iTunes to keep your music file organized so it went and undid everything just did on the hard drive. Problem is, I lost 47 albums. I searched my entire PC and the external drive and couldn't find them anywhere.
At this point I didn't want to go any further so I did not sync my iPod. Those 47 albums are still on my iPod. I realize there are 3rd party utilities to get them back to my PC but will it work and the next time I sync my iPod will I lose anything else?
Bill
I rip the CD's during the week and sync it with the iPod each weekend. This weekend before the sync I decided I'd try to clean up the music folder on the harddrive that iTunes points to. I wasn't happy with the way it was organizing my music:
"Beatles" - 3 albums
"Beatles, The" - 7 albums
"The Beatles" - 3 albums
In the example above I'd cut and paste the 3 albums in "Beatles" and 3 albums in "The Beatles" to "Beatles, The".
I deleted my iTunes Library in iTunes and reloaded the re-organized files from the hard drive folder. I didn't realize that you had to unselect the option for iTunes to keep your music file organized so it went and undid everything just did on the hard drive. Problem is, I lost 47 albums. I searched my entire PC and the external drive and couldn't find them anywhere.
At this point I didn't want to go any further so I did not sync my iPod. Those 47 albums are still on my iPod. I realize there are 3rd party utilities to get them back to my PC but will it work and the next time I sync my iPod will I lose anything else?
Bill