Best Practice for Keeping Imported Music Organized? - Help Please

I download tunes and am looking at the best way to keep iTunes up to date with new downloads (as opposed o CD rips). Am i best to have all files in one overall folder and then just use iTunes to import the files from whatever folder they reside in (after the download) to the copy in iTunes and delete the original? To date Ive been keeping them scattered across drives and just using iTunes as the pointer to the original but now losing track as to what has been imported and what hasnt. Perhaps the above is a better way and if so....best to delete iTunes, reinstall with an empty database, import all and then delete from original flile locations? Help and thanks in advance!!
Porsche216

I import similar to the way you described. Import then delete original. I keep a folder just for importing. iTunes has a function consolidating the library. It will copy from the multiple locations to the iTunes library location. You would then have to delete the originals to free up space.

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