Ok in my quest to use and appreciate Itunes properly I made acopy of my Music directory on another drive. Uninstalled the old version of Itunes, installed the new and was ready to go. 15 minutes of copying later and I'm ready to go.
Hmm even though it is a new install for some reason all my songs are still visible in Itunes and I just know that when I add my new directory it is going to double up all the songs. Add new directory.....songs are doubled up. FFS.
Oh well I thought, I'll deal with that later and take the plunge with Apples fabled directory sorting so I let it do it's thing.
Woah there, now it wants to make a copy of all the songs that I just copied but onto my C: drive? I don't think so so I changed the location of my ITunes directory so it is with all my other static data on a seperate drive. ( I seem to remember reading that changing the Itunes directory can cause problems?? Is this true).
Anyway for the third time in one evening 15gigs of music are being copied and manipulated, I'll go and have another beer or two.
All done! Well I don't have a problem with the method of sorting used by Itunes, In fact it is exactly as I sort my music myself which is cool. I don't understand why it has make a copy of all the songs though, why not just sort my directory. That just strikes me as imbecilic when you consider the amount of data that people use in their music directories and could well be the reason that a lot of people are running into problems. Taking a 15 gig chunk out of my Windows directory would give my computer headaches too.
So far so good then but I still can't figure out how to delete all the mirrors now sitting in my library. I haven't synced yet either because I want to be sure that all the skipping bugs have been fixed. I'll try that later.
Hmm even though it is a new install for some reason all my songs are still visible in Itunes and I just know that when I add my new directory it is going to double up all the songs. Add new directory.....songs are doubled up. FFS.
Oh well I thought, I'll deal with that later and take the plunge with Apples fabled directory sorting so I let it do it's thing.
Woah there, now it wants to make a copy of all the songs that I just copied but onto my C: drive? I don't think so so I changed the location of my ITunes directory so it is with all my other static data on a seperate drive. ( I seem to remember reading that changing the Itunes directory can cause problems?? Is this true).
Anyway for the third time in one evening 15gigs of music are being copied and manipulated, I'll go and have another beer or two.
All done! Well I don't have a problem with the method of sorting used by Itunes, In fact it is exactly as I sort my music myself which is cool. I don't understand why it has make a copy of all the songs though, why not just sort my directory. That just strikes me as imbecilic when you consider the amount of data that people use in their music directories and could well be the reason that a lot of people are running into problems. Taking a 15 gig chunk out of my Windows directory would give my computer headaches too.
So far so good then but I still can't figure out how to delete all the mirrors now sitting in my library. I haven't synced yet either because I want to be sure that all the skipping bugs have been fixed. I'll try that later.