Browse music files by directories- possible?

is this possible ? thanks

You can browse them by playlist that you create both on the iphone and on itunes, and u have different options within the ipod app such as album, artist, and song.

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Keeping certain files separate from my music files - is this possible?

Hi iPoders,
I have a lot of "courses" - books and spoken stuff
and meditations that I would like to put on my iPod classic (120)
But I do not want them mixed in with my music.
I was hoping that I could have put them into the "audio books" catagory, but it seems I can't do that.
So then is the best way to just put them in a play list?
(or can I drag and drop them into the audio books section?)
And if I do that, and then hit shuffle in the main window of iPod, will they be included in that shuffle?
I hope that makes sense.
I really want to keep them separate and choose to listen to them when I desire.
Thanks for the insight.
carmen

With iTunes 8.x and above you have the option to tell iTunes to treat any audio file as an audiobook. Simply select the tracks, *Get Info.*, then on the options tab set *Media kind* to Audiobook. You can also set options to *Remember playback position* and *Skip when shuffling*.
Assuming, however, that the books consist of more than one file you may have problems if you plan to listen to them on an iPod. The Audiobooks feature was originally designed for books that have been stitched up into a single file and hasn't been updated to reflect the changes that now make multi-track audiobooks easy to work with in iTunes. The main issue is that the iPod lists all audiobook files by track title/chapter name so unless you rename every track using a scheme such as *Book Title, Chapter XX* the tracks will play out of sequence. There are tools for creating iPod-friendly audiobooks for which Aldo on Audiobooks is probably the best reference. Personally I don't bother with the extra effort and just have an "Audiobooks" playlist folder containing sub-folders for each author and within these playlists for each audiobook. Although I still mark the files as Audiobooks to keep them out of my main music section when it comes to the iPod I ignore it's Audiobooks feature and use my own playlists for access.
Note that I've used leading digits in the playlist names to arrange these in chronological rather than alphabetical order.
tt2

Have lost original iTunes music files on my MacBook Air

Hi, can someone help?
My purchased music files are no more aviailible on my mac, probably i have deleted them. Although on iTunes they are indicated under "purchased" but unfortunately I cannot access them. The list of music albums and songs still is availible, and if i want to activate one of songs, i receive the information, that the file could not be found, would i like to locate it? But when i go to "locate", the file appears to be empty at the end. Have i lost all my music files without a possibility to recover them? Any suggestions?
Appreciating your suggestions.

iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
The easiest way to get back missing items? Restore your whole hard drive with all your irreplaceable things like photos in about 20 minutes from the backup clone you make on a regular basis because you know for sure one day your drive will stop functioning, probably without warning.
Downloading (using iOS or computer) past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519 - enabled with iTunes 10.3 and newer; not all media formats are available in all countries (see: iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, and iTunes Radio availability by country - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5085); apps, books (not audiobooks), music, t.v. shows, and movies (some - not all studios have permitted this). Downloading previously purchased movies and TV shows requires iTunes 10.6 or later. Discontinued items not available. For items not included in the iCloud list (e.g., ringtones, audiobooks), or locations or computer systems where iCloud is not (yet?) available, you only get one download per fee paid. Apple recommends, "You always back up your iTunes library in the event that a purchased item is no longer available on the iTunes Store," (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519).
Additional tip at https://discussions.apple.com/message/24176756
Select the iTunes Store on the left side of iTunes if you have the sidebar displayed, or with the button at the top right.
Click on Purchased on the right side under Quick Links.
You can re-download your available previous purchases.

Is it possible to use my music files in both my girlfriend's and my separate Itunes libraries through our seperate user accounts?? I want to import my music into her library with out copying the files onto my hard drive a second time....

Is it possible to use my music files in both my girlfriend's and my Itunes library's through our seperate user account? I want to import my music into her library without copying to my hard drive a second time.....

Would any of these help you?:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2011/05/two-ways-to-share-media-librar ies-through-itunes.html
http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2011/01/keeping-multiple-itunes-librar ies-on-a-single-computerif-you-share-your-computer-with-others-and-you.html

After updating my ios4 to ios 6.1, it became very slow. Browsing my music takes forever. How do i fix it to make it fast again without losing my music files?

After updating my ipod touch 4th gen ios 4.1 to ios 6.1.6, browsing my music files became super slow..I lost all my music files and was even forced to download new ones..But im not happy with maneuvering my music files after the update as it takes really slow to move from one playlist to another..I wish I could downgrade it to my original ios 4 as it was much faster then in maneuvering music files. Or is there a way for me to make it faster???Im only using my ipod touch 4th gen for listening to my music files and nothing more. I also noticed that whenever I dock my ipod touch to my Bose sound Dock, the remote control only function on its volume controls but not the skip buttons. i sent my Bose dock to Bose service center and told me that my Bose dock system is working fine but not my Ipod touch 4th gen.. Pls help me...

- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
Also, go to Bose's support site, they may have suggestions for that problem

How can I delete a music file directly from iPhone? Or not possible?

Can I delete a music file directly from iPhone?

Not possible.
Either unselect it during what it syncs, or manually manage > delete song.

Information stripped from music files; restore possible?

I recently bought a newer model iMac to replace my old 2008 model, and completed direct file transfer of all my stuff using Migration Assistant. However, I did notice a possible deficiency in my music files, of which I have many that are not already in my iTunes library. In all of these files, the information about track title, artist, running time and such have been deleted somehow, possibly as a side effect of the transfer. If that is what happened, is there anything I can do to restore the missing file info?

See this post.
tt2

"Quick look" possible for music files in 10.4?

Hi
My wife and I have an editing studio at home, with a sound library (music files of various formats) on a drive attached to a G4 server running 10.4. Our edit machines are also running 10.4 (I have one laptop running 10.5). While we can browse and search the library in the Finder just fine, previewing each track before deciding to use it is a bit of a pain. Since there's no "quick look" keyboard shortcut in Tiger, the only way is to either open the "i" tab under the file we're interested in, then using the Preview slider to play; opening a permanent inspector window with alt-cmd-i and mousing over to that to Preview, or double-clicking the file to pull it into iTunes to play it.
I could set up iTunes on the server and share over the network, but that would only allow previewing, not copying. Is there a way I can preview music files, either in the Finder or a Finder replacement (Path Finder? Better Finder? etc) with slightly more ease?
Thanks!
Matt
Message was edited by: Matt Clifton

Hi
My wife and I have an editing studio at home, with a sound library (music files of various formats) on a drive attached to a G4 server running 10.4. Our edit machines are also running 10.4 (I have one laptop running 10.5). While we can browse and search the library in the Finder just fine, previewing each track before deciding to use it is a bit of a pain. Since there's no "quick look" keyboard shortcut in Tiger, the only way is to either open the "i" tab under the file we're interested in, then using the Preview slider to play; opening a permanent inspector window with alt-cmd-i and mousing over to that to Preview, or double-clicking the file to pull it into iTunes to play it.
I could set up iTunes on the server and share over the network, but that would only allow previewing, not copying. Is there a way I can preview music files, either in the Finder or a Finder replacement (Path Finder? Better Finder? etc) with slightly more ease?
Thanks!
Matt
Message was edited by: Matt Clifton

Is it possible to move my iTunes from the old laptop to the new one (including all the music files and playlists) without having to start all over again with a blank iTunes?

Is it possible to move my iTunes from the old laptop to the new one (including all the music files and playlists) without having to start all over again with a blank iTunes?

yes
You will need to copy the whole iTunes folder which is in your user profile on the old computer in Music folder.
Before you do it make sure iTunes are updates on the old computer and it works without any problems.
This will copy all your media, music, movies (provided you did not change the default location).
After the migration you will need to sing in to Apple store again with your Apple ID
and also authorize your new computer (both done from the tom menu bar in Store.
Once you are done please deauthorize your old computer (the same menu path) if you are not planning to use it anymore.
Any problems post here.

Is it possible to get iTunes to sync and match my iPhone? I recently bought a new Macbook and I transferred all of the music files on my old computer to the new one. I don't want all of the music files, only the ones also on my iPhone.

Basically I have a ton of music files in my iTunes library and included in all of those files are all of the music on my iPhone. I want iTunes to delete all of the songs in the library (and the song files on my computer) that are not on my iPhone.

You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
When you change syncing computers you have to/should have done this:
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities

Possible corrupt music file on back up disc - can't restore iTunes library!

Sold old laptop last week in prep for getting new PC, backed up iTunes library onto DVD disc (whole library went on 4.7GB disc with no problems) - got new PC yesterday, downloaded iTunes 9, inserted back up disc, tried to restore but keeps getting stuck on one song and going no further. Can anyone help with any other suggestions because I'm going nuts! Can't update my iPhone as there's nothing in iTunes to update it with!

Yes, the relative location is the same, the user account has the same short and long lame as before.
I did try to use the preferences to point to the backed up itunes folder. Once when it was on the eHD and once when I put it in the music folder. Unfortunatley no luck.
I will try your idea about using "Consolidate Library"
One other interesting thing I tried a few days ago was to follow the procedure outlined in the apple support section about restoring the library. It has you move the libray xml file to the desk top, trashing one of the other files (I forgot which) and then choosing the xml file placed on the desk top upon starting itunes. I thought it was kind of odd to select the very xml file I was having trouble with so I chose the backed up xml file. It put all of the playlist folders back in duplicate, but the library was still empty (probably becuase the xml file is just a reference file and I hadn't loaded any actual music files) If the consolidate doesn't work, mabye I'll try that again, but also put the folder with the actual files on the computer as well
I'll let you know how "Consolidate" works, thanks for your suggestions!

[Solved] File browser that supports mixed files and directories

Are there any file browsers that show files and directories together, in the way that macs do? Most of the time I like the seperated structure, but for some things I'd like to be able to sort by, say, date modified, and have all the newest files and directories together. I'm hoping I'm just overlooking an option somewhere (I'm using nemo now), but this is kind of a tricky thing to google.
EDIT
Just looked again and noticed the option, right there in front of me. Oops. Still, andyone happen to know how to make this a property of a single directory, and not global?
Last edited by ce1984 (2014-04-25 02:05:16)

ls - just don't use
--group-directories-first

How to keep the ending silence of a music file?

I am fed up...
iTunes just always clips the ending silence of all my music. This is SO annoying, if you i.e. listen to a classic piece of music, Beethoven, Bach etc. ALWAYS iTunes bombs in the next title on the playlist milliseconds after the previous title has ended.
I do not know, which "60 beats a second" kid has programmed such a senseless feature....?
Of course I browsed the Internet, of course I used the search function in this forum.
It seems really many people have the same problem, but the only solutions are like adding silent 2 seconds mp3 files into the playlist.
This iTunes is really not a very well programmed software, if users needs these awkward workarounds...
Is there any smart solution to this problem? Help is really appreciated.

iTunes doesn't do anything with the "ending silence of a music file". If you have crossfading turned on (see previous comment) each track will start playing, with a predetermined fade in, before the previous one ends. You definitely want have that disabled. Otherwise, each track plays through to the end and the next one starts immediately - there is no "gap". However, you would normally expect that last few seconds of the track itself to be "silent" so that you hear a gap between each piece of music - just as you would when listening to a CD. Are you perceiving something different? There are a couple of somewhat obscure scenarios where the end of a track could be truncated. One involves a very specific error that could occur if your music has been imported from CD outside iTunes and then transferred to it - but that would require a very deliberate action with certain tools used for this purpose. In technical terms, the import ignores the "pre-gap" that may precede a track on a CD (you'd see this on some CD players as a brief - usually two second - countdown after the end of one track and before the start of the next. Most software, iTunes included, normally treats this pre-gap as part of the preceding track.
The other possibility is that the metadata associated with some tracks has been altered such that playback terminates before the actual end of the track. However, it requires a specific user action for this to happen - I can't think of a way it could happen accidentally.
Bottom line is that - unless you've hit one of these unlikely scenarios, or found a previously unreported bug (either in iTunes itself or in its interaction with audio drivers), or have that ghastly crossfade function turned on, you are hearing the music as recorded and mastered. The only other exception is the case where you are hearing the end of one album/disc immediately followed by the start of the next. Depending on how its been mastered, there could be a "shorter than expected" gap between them.

HT5071 Inserting Music files into an Ebook

I'm about to publish a book that will be available on IBooks but I am not publishing via Apple.
I recall seeing a way to insert music files in an Ebook, which is my desire. I'm speaking of music available on Itunes that either the reader can buy or I can possibly insert into the Ebook. Is anyone aware of how to do this?

Hello Sal64,
Indeed, ebooks can play audio.
iBooks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about iBooks features
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5557
Can iBooks play audio or video included with books?
Yes, enhanced books can now automatically play audio or video included with the book using iBooks version 1.3 or later.
iBooks Author: Add a movie or an audio file
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2791
Add an audio file
Choose Media from the Widgets pop-up menu in the toolbar.
Drag an audio file from the Finder or the Media Browser to the widget.
In the Interaction pane of the Widget inspector, do any of the following:
Make playback start over when the file finishes playing: Choose an option from the Repeat pop-up menu.
Choose how users play the audio file in the completed book: Select an option under Show Audio As. You can select one of the following:
Button: Readers tap a button to start and stop the audio file. If the file is stopped before it finishes playing, readers tap the audio file again to resume playing the file from where it left off.
Scrubber bar: Readers can use playback controls to play the audio file.
Image: Drag an image to the widget. Readers tap the image to start the audio file. If readers tap again, the file plays from the beginning.
Important: Images can’t be larger than 25 megapixels (5000 x 5000 pixels) or 50 MB.
Cheers,
Allen

Why does Itunes keep losing the location of music files?

Itunes will lose the location of the music files. they clearly listed under the right album and proper order but when you select a song a exclamation mark shows up and a window pops up asking me where it can be located. I don't know, Itunes lost it, I haven't done any maintenance work to the hard drive that I know of other than clean the registry on my firefox search engine.

The "missing file" error happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, one of its parent folders, or the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place. In the case of a library moved from one system to another there are also potential permissions issues. See Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to Get Info, then click No when asked to try to locate the track. (Due to a bug in iTunes 12 you currently have to say No twice!) Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, a folder renamed, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions. If the difference between the two paths is an additional Music folder in one path then this is a layout issue. I can explain further if that is the case.
In some cases iTunes may be able to repair itself if you go through the same steps with Get Info but this time click Locate and browse to the lost track. It may then offer to attempt to automatically fix other broken links.
If another application like Windows Media Player has moved/renamed the files then the chances are that subtle differences in naming strategies will make it hard to restore the media to the precise path that iTunes is expecting. In such cases, as long as the missing files can be found somewhere, you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes. See this post for an explanation of how it works.
i may be able to give some more focused advice once there is a clearer picture of where things are.
tt2

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