Adding music w/o duplicates (I'm sure it's been asked)

Long story short: I have Music Folder "X" and I have my "iTunes Media Folder", where my iTunes library is. Both folders have mostly the same music (exactly the same files in every way), but "X" has music that "Media" does not have, and "Media" has music that "X" does not have. Naturally, I want to put all the music in one folder, "Media". Is there an efficient way to do this? Or do I have to go through "X" and individually find every file that isn't in "Media"? Thanks!

If you only want to back up your home folder or items in it, you can just drag it. If you want to back up the entire Mac OS X system, you need to clone it due to overhead information.
Note that if you buy a new computer, the old system won't be able to start it up.
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I'm SO sorry, sure it's been asked 100 times. New version on itunes...

I'm kinda ipod challenged. I bought on, got all my songs on it, computer crashed.
So after I reformated, I got the newer version of itunes because I can't remember the one I had before. But now it's telling me I can only have 1 library and I must delete and sync with my NEW library. I dont want to lose all the song that are already on my ipod!
How do I get around it?
Once again, I'm sorry. I looked in a few pages of topics and didn't find my answer. Thanks so much!

hey, so the only way that i know of to set itunes to not auto-update ur ipod with ur new library is to change this "auto0sync" function from the ipod settings menu within itunes. unfortunately the ipod settings menu can only be brought up by plugging in ur ipod. i set it not to auto-update when i first got my ipod. there may be another way... sorry i couldnt b more helpful

Sure it's been asked already.... But whats going on with 3.1?

iPhone 3.1 (7C144) has made me hate my iPhone. The battery life seems okay, but I can't tell what it is unless I restart the phone. It'll just display whatever it started at when i turned it on. Even the battery app I have shows the same thing. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the phone or texting not working. I can not make or receive texts on what seems to be a very random basis. I try to make a call, and the phone just sits there saying "calling iPhone...", but does nothing. With sending text messages, it runs through about 90% then just sits there until it gives up. I have to restart my phone for the phone functions to work. This started happening to me a few days after updating. The instore helper people told me to restore my phone. all that did was get rid of my high scores in games, and messed up the order of my apps. My girlfriends phone does the same thing now too. We bought our phones at the same time from the same store, from the same salesperson. Why will apple not fix this?

More than likely Apple is working on a fix. The problem is everyone who has installed firmware update 3.1 is not experiencing the same. I'm not, and I doubt I'm the only one who isn't or in the minority. As with any bug, the cause must be identified, code written to fix the problem, and then tested before the final release. Difficult to deal with for those experiencing this problem, but it wouldn't be a good idea to provide a bug fix to fix a problem experienced by some that causes a problem for others who haven't experienced the same.
If you get a notice with iTunes to send a report to Apple as the first step during the sync process, you should do so. This will help Apple to identify the source of the problem and to correct it with a firmware update.

Im sure this has been asked...

what 3rd party web cam works with a G4 dualie? The iSight camera is outta sight in price for me. Is anyone happy with a 3rd party web cam?

Hi
See if this helps http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=888035&start=0&tstart=0
Tony

Everytime i eject my ipod and reconnect it all my music is gone. and sometimes while i try adding music to it. itunes completely freezes. please help. and sometimes when i plug it back into my PC i have to rename my ipod and such

Everytime i eject my ipod and reconnect it all my music is gone. and sometimes while i try adding music to it. itunes completely freezes. please help. and sometimes when i plug it back into my PC i have to rename my ipod and such

Antivirus has a tendency to freeze iTunes sync Operation with iPod Classic, causing a timeout, which corrupt your iPod filesystem, so when iTunes can't read the iPod, it is pointing to this problem. Other causes is when your iPod hardisk is dying, or your battery is dying causing hardisk crashes.
My suggestion.
Connect your iPod to the PC and run chkdsk, to fix any iPod diskerror, then disconnect it, after chkdsk complete.
Disconnect your PC from Internet. (just to make sure no nasties creep into your system while you syncing.
Stop the Antivirus program
Connect your Ipod to the PC
When iTunes Open up, Restore your iPod please, this is for iTunes to map correctly, to fix the corrupted filesystem.
When Restore complete, eject the iPod and reconnect again.
Sync your ipod, preferably manually Manage in small batches and disconnect after every batch, to check that all is well, since you got such a huge library.
When all sync is complete, and iPod disconnected, start back your Antivirus and connect back the Internet.
If this doesn't resolve your problem, then let me know.
Good Luck!

Inadvertantly added music files to the wrong library

I created a 2nd library in itunes and then inadvertantly added music files to it instead of to the original library. My original intent was to move files from the 1st library to the 2nd but I forgot we had added music that hadn't been scanned into itunes yet and when I hit "scan music" it started to add all those files to the new library, so now what?
And how do I move the files I originally intended to move from the 1st library into the 2nd?

Karen,
There is not really such a thing as "move" in that context. Get copies of any files that you wish to add to the 2nd library, and add them. When you are sure that this has been correctly accomplished, then go into the 1st library and delete whatever you don't want to be there.

Adding music files to iDVD project

Hello All,
Sorry if this has been asked before... I didn't seem to find anything in my "search" of past posts...
A friend of mine recently passed away & I am (trying to) putting together a dvd to send to his brother that includes some home video of us ..... and I would like to include some music (files) from an old band he was in.... (he did a hme made cd)...
I'd like his songs to be in a separate folder and be able to select from them with the menu (like Toast sets up a "music dvd)...
All I have been able to figure to do is to include an iTunes playlist but that way one cannot jump from song to song... I even tried to do a seperate iMovie project with chapters for each song then export into iDVD & that (sort of) worked but I then couldn't figure out how to "combine" those "scenes" into my main project with the movies too...
Now I am going the looong way around and saving out individual clips of each song as full quality dv and then will try to add them into a folder in my main project....
My short question to all this long wind is:
is there a way to create a "slide show" of individual music files the same way that slide show of photos works... so that you can move around between them with the menu.... all I have found is that a play list can be added into the sound "well" but then you cna't skip from song to song like you can with a what Toast does when it sets up a music dvd
any ideas?
thanks & regards to all for a great holiday
from the coast of Maine
-Larry

Well...I'm not sure if my suggestion or ideas will help, but you could certainly use iMovie to organize and edit the movie portion of your DVD, then for the music portion, first add your songs to iTunes, then go back to your iMovie project, select the songs you want to add to your DVD project, and drag each song into the timeline. Now, you can add chapter markers at the beginning of each song. This might not give you a separate folder to open (folders are for data DVDs), but at least your audience will be able to see each song title and skip through the songs as neededce they are chapters. Other than this, you might want to wander over to the Toast discussion forum on the Roxio.com site where users of Toast may have a suggestion. With Toast, you might be able to drag your video and audio portions of your project into Toast separately, that way you only have two chapters: Video and Audio.

I have added music from my CD library to iTunes but now my iPod will not sync. Message says not enough free space. How can I sync only a portion of my library to my 8Gb Nano?

I have added music from my CD library to iTunes on my PC. I now have too many songs in my iTunes and I have insufficient space in my 8 Gb Nano. I am unable to sync my iPod now. How can I get my iPod to sync? I only want a portion of my songs on the Nano.

Hi wisemra,
First, make sure your iTunes does not attempt to sync automatically. Open iTunes, and select Preferences under the iTunes menu item:
Then, once you have hooked up your device and selected it, you should see the device Profile pages to the right. Select the Music tab:
Once you get to the Music detail screen, you will see the option to "Sync Music". You can then select "Sync Entire Music Library" or you can select "Sync Selected Playlists, Artists, Albums, Genres". Click on the second one. Then, below, you can select which of your music from the library you want on your device:
Your will show a list of your music. Mine doesn't because I sync with an iTunes library on different computer, but once you have selected the options I have shown you, you will see the music listed. Just pick what you want on your device and then click "Sync" at the bottom.
Cheers,
GB

I would like to create a slide show and then burn to a DVD. I may be interested in adding music. Should I use iPhone, iMovie or a simple Powerpoint?

I am going to be creating a slide show and then burning it to a couple of DVDs. I have used PPT in the past for simple slide shows for speaking engagements, but I am interested in adding music to this slide show. What is the best/easiest application to use? iMovie, iPhoto or Powerpoint?
Thanks!
Mike

burning it to a couple of DVDs
Is it your intention to create video DVDS that can be played on TV sets via DVD players? If so you'll need a video DVD authoring application like iDVD.
Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. For iPhoto 9.4.3 and earlier select Size = Medium or Large. For iPhoto 9.5 and later selct 480p.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailer like Amazon.com: ilife 09: Software or eBay.com. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago.
Why iLife 09 instead of 11?
If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
OT

Comodo Firewall causes problems when adding music

When I have Comodo Firewall installed (even when it's closed), I have trouble adding music to iTunes. It hangs and adds one song every 10 minutes. If I add more music to iTunes, it'll start adding the previous queue. In Comodo, I've listed iTunes as a trusted program. I have a pretty big library, but I think this is mainly a firewall program. I've disabled Defense+. There is not much help available in Comodo forums.

Hi scooper,
... An answered the second part, I give a try to part one:
* is the project located on your Mac's local drive or external?
* is the iTunes library on the Mac's local drive or external?
* is the "internet" (<<woohoo, bad kharma;-) ) music coded as aac, mp3 or aiff? or, something different, internet "standard", as ogg, wav, whatever?
your Mac/iM tries to playback in realtime (sure, that makes sense with a movie...), but obviously has too much to do encoding the music...
in case you own QTpro or a designated audio-app (Garageband, Audacity), try to convert the internet music (<<woohoo, bad kharma... ah, said that) BEFORE import to iM into aiff...
in case of usage of external harddrives:
make sure, the drive is "MacOsExtended" formatted, not FAT32... use Disk Utility to accomplish that (any reformatting erases all content!)
pay the artists//respect local laws//get good kharma

Adding music to a video

Does anyone know how to add music to a video recorded on the ipod? These are the directions as stated in the manual:
Adding Music to Your Recorded Videos
You can use QuickTime Player to add music to your recorded videos. Select a recorded video in iPhoto, and then click Edit at the bottom of the iPhoto window. The recorded video opens in QuickTime Player, where you can add a music track to your recorded video.
To learn how to add music to your recorded videos with QuickTime Player, choose Help > QuickTime Player Help, and see the instructions for extracting, adding, and moving tracks.
I can follow the steps up to clicking on edit but from there I don't anything that would allow me to do this. I also looked in QuickTime player help and just don't see how. I am running Snow Leopard which means the new version of QuickTime. I have tried opening in QT Pro as well but just don't see how to do it.
Thanks for any anwers.

alestian wrote:
Can you add narration and a background loop track to a video using iMovie? In some programs, only provide one track for the video and one track for the audio.
sure, you can..
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/index.html

Lost sound in some film clips when finishing project. Using iMovie 11, after adding music to photo section, could not get sound back in 2 film clips at end of movie. Beginning clips ok. How do I restore sound? Thx.

Lost sound in some film clips when finishing project. Using iMovie 11, after adding music to photo section, could not get sound back in 2 film clips at end of movie. Beginning clips ok. How do I restore sound? Thx.

Everything in your project will be exported when you use the share menu.
If you want to export only half, I suggest that you
1) Select the project in the Project Library.
2) Click FILE/DUPLICATE PROJECT
3) Give the duplicate a name, like Project A snippet.
4) Open the duplicate project in the Project editor and delete the segments that you do not need.
5) Then Share.
You mentioned surrounding a portion of the clip you were editing in Yellow. Once you do this, you should right-click and then select either DELETE SELECTION, TRIM TO SELECTION, or one of the other options available. That is a key tool in editing.
You mentioned MPEG Streamclip. I agree that MPEG Streamclip is a great tool.

Another question about adding music to iPhone

Apologies for yet another question regarding adding music to an iPhone but I am completely stuck.
I bought a new laptop in January (it runs windows 8). I've authorised it and synced my phone to it before. I've used it to add music before.
Lately I've just been buying music directly from itunes on my phone but I wanted to add some music from my older collection that is on an external harddrive.
I've gone through the process of syncing the phone again, which has wiped whatever was on there. I made sure I'd ticked on the "manually manage music" box.
It's put all my purchased music back but it still will not let me drag and drop music from my external harddrive. When I hover over with the file it has "link" but it won't actually send the music to the phone.
Is there a way for me to do this without putting music on to my itunes library? I don't like itunes and I definitely don't want to add the music to my laptop as it defeats the purpose of having an external harddrive! Sorry for such a long-winded explanation.

Just to add... I've now tried adding music to the library (getting desperate here) and it's not letting me do that either. Just says 'link'.
This is the most frustrating thing ever. Why are the simplest of tasks made so difficult? It seems like it only works if you buy the music from the iTunes store.

HT1386 I originally added music to my iphone under someone elses itunes account, now that I am trying to add under my own id, it is not showing on my phone...how can I fix this?

What do I need to do to get my music from my itunes library onto my phone? I originally added music from a diffnerent itues account, and now that I am trying to add from my own it will not transfer...however, in the bar on the bottom of itunes it shows that it is on my phone...but it does not display anywhere else and I cannot find it in my phone. Do I need to connect to the original itunes account and delete that music in order for my library to show?

As you connect your ipod to iTunes, an option in the upper right of the screen will appear. When you click this, it will show the different menu for your ipod.

HT1751 if i back up my itunes library to an external hard drive and then add subsequent music and want to back that up a few days later, can i backup the only newly added music without backing up the entire library again?

hello,
if i back up my itunes library to an external hard drive and then add subsequent music and want to back up the newly added music a few days later, can i do it without backing up the entire library again? or do i need to back up the entire library each and every time i back up to the external hard drive?

Just copy Users/yourusername/Music/iTunes (containing your library-files) to your external drive as well as that (extaernal) folder that contains all your audio-tracks.

Adding music w/o duplicates (I'm sure it's been asked)

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