Change specific music folder

My music management has been lousy in the past so I have a mix of folders where my music is located. Itunes displayes and plays them all correctly.
Now i understand a bit more about itunes i have configured it to my liking and all new music I add gets copied neatly to the folder specified in the preferences and all is well. Now I want to move all the 'old' music that is located all over on my mac to the 'default' Itunes folder as configured in preferences.
I can copy the music there of course but then itunes still points to the old location. Is there a way to do this without having to manually change the .xml file with the file locations ?
Thanks in advance for the support.

try if this script works for you:
Re-Locate Selected v1.1 This script will re-locate the files of the selected iTunes tracks from their current location to a new user-chosen folder. iTunes will be updated with each track's new location and all of each track's meta-data will be preserved. Option to remove the files from their original location. (I don't advise using this on more than an album's worth of tracks or so at a time; re-locating dozens of tracks' files to a single folder doesn't seem to make much sense to me.) NOTE: If your "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" preference set, you will not be able to create new folders in or re-locate files within the iTunes Media folder; outside is OK.

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In iTunes, if you go to edit/preferences/advanced/general, you should see this screen (and the 'ok' button at the bottom right corner).

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When you click "Yes" to find the file, you're supposed to browse to the actual song file on your computer to show iTunes where it has been moved. Are you saying you can't browse to the file, or you can't find the file?
If you can't find the file--did you move all of your song files to your new computer, too? The library file only contains links (file paths) to where the song is located on your computer. You also have to move the music folder (with all of your music files) and the artwork folder (with all the cover art).

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I found the following windows xp registry fix for this issue.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEYCLASSESROOT\CLSID\{43A8F463-4222-11d2-B641-006097DF5BD4}]
@="Shell Name Space ListView"
[HKEYCLASSESROOT\CLSID\{43A8F463-4222-11d2-B641-006097DF5BD4}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
64,00,6f,00,63,00,76,00,77,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
[-HKEYCURRENTUSER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CopyMoveTo]

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Could the "folder path changing" problem be due to the fact that you have it in an EXTERNAL drive? I have my Original CDs copied into the external drive but I maintain the iTunes Music folder on my internal hard drive and let iTunes manage that. Time to time, i copy that to my external drive for safe keeping.
Now in your case, it is the external drive. The question becomes the full path name with which iTunes finds this location. Being an external drive, the Drive Letter assigned to it could chnage depending on what otherd evices you may have connected to your PC at the time - one time it could be F, and another time it could be G and so on. Could this be causing you the random problem?
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chris CA,
I think you missed the question that "fillibrownis" raised (btw, I am seeing the same problem and it is quite frustrating).
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ITunes Music Folder Missing on external hard drive after changing iTunes Media Folder Location from MacBook Hard Drive. Not deleted...just missing?

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When you change the location in preferences it tells iTunes to start, from this point on, storing new media files in the new location. It then presents you with the option to move any old files in their current locations to the new location. It doesn't move the library files which are not media files. Read the links below to understand how iTunes works because you are the one with the computer in front of you and are in the better position to understand how it stands as regards to iTunes files.
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
Now, did you keep the whole library on the external drive, or did you keep just media? From your description of the situation it sounds as if you kept the whole library there and when the external was not attached it returned to default location on the internal drive. What you should have done then was plug in the external drive, hold down the option key, and guide iTunes to the library file on the external. At this stage you could have dealt with the mislocated new files on an individual basis.
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file://localhost/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/*You're Name*/My%20Documents/My%20Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/
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hello, i changed my mediathek-folder due to space-problems and since then i am not able to fill the iphone (4) with music anymore. also i cant delete music in itunes, which already is on the iphone... HELP!
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Everything SEEMED to have looked good. Or so I hoped.
The 40+ applications I bought are no longer listed on the Applications purchased list. Further, all my files are STILL saving to the c: drive.
How do I FORCE iTunes to acknowledge that the D:\ drive is storing my iTunes preferences and files?!

OK, now I get what you're trying to do. I think!
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How to stop music folder from being created when changing media folder

When I try to change the media folder location, a new "music" folder is created - how do I stop this from happening (I already have a music folder that I want it to default to, but when I try to select it, it creates another music sub folder)
This is a new issue - I have been using itunes for years without ever having this problem...

That's how itunes 9 works, now. The top-level folder is considered the "Media" folder and there are music, podcast, movie, audiobook, etc subfolders.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3847

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