Complicated iTunes questions

A month ago I had some serious virus issues that effected iTunes. I had a computer repair tech come in and clean the computer. He was able to reinstall iTunes and restore most of the music files. Two problems were encountered during this process.
1) Many duplicates appeared in the main music folder of iTunes. I found out that duplicates were in the backup iTunes folder (on my pc) that stored the music. I am in the process of correcting that folder. But I still have to go into iTunes and delete the duplicates there too. Any quick ways to do this?
2) Some files (several hundred) can not be located. I was able to find some buried under strange folders and I am also cleaning this up. Once I am finished cleaning up the music folder on the pc is there an easy way to point iTunes to the corrected folder. I am hopeful to regain access to the 300+ songs that iTunes still can't find.

itunes has a database file named
iTunes Library.itl
The easiest way to start with a new library is to delete that file.
Before you do that, realize that all your ratings, play counts, playlists and other metadata such as Date Added will be lost.
If you want to continue with your existing itunes database...it will be more work.
You can try and run a script to find duplicates. Just google "script find duplicates itunes". I haven't used one, so can't recommend any of them.
This is Apple's solution:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2905

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Complicated Authorization Question
I had my itunes software on my laptop with the songs on a portable hard drive. The laptop was stolen, the portable hard drive was not. I installed itunes on the new laptop and pointed to the music on the portable hard drive and it is telling me I am not authorized to play certain songs although I have authorized the computer. Also when I try to snyc my iphone it is saying it is going to erase all the songs on the iphone and replace them. I have purchased songs on the phone that are not in my itunes.
How do I resolve this?

Have you tried to play one of the songs in iTunes? It should then ask you to authorize them.

Importing iPhoto files onto an iPhone 3G using iTunes question....

New! Importing iPhoto files onto an iPhone 3G with iTunes question
Posted: Aug 14, 2008 9:07 AM Reply Email
So letme get this striaght...
You first create an album in iPhoto 08 with just the images you want put onto your iPhone 3G.
NEXT: you connect tou iPhone 3G and iTunews will open. You go to the iPhone in iTunes and select the photo tag and then select the album you had made for import and sync it with you iPhone. Will large image files automatically be resized for use on the iPhone 3G?
Most of my .JPG files are from 4 -5 MB each in size. What will it do with a RAW image file?

I am not 100% sure, but i BELIEVE that they do get resized because as it's syncing with the iPhone, iTunes will state that it is optimizing the selected photos for the iPhone, just like we would see for the iPod.

I need an Email I can contact for itunes questions that are for apple.

I need an Email I can contact for itunes questions that are for apple. Please post one I will greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

iTunes is a free program consequently any support is via these user forums or the on-line documentation. Apple do not provide free technical support except for purchased products. They don't provide email support for iTunes.
If you post your questions and/or any problems giving clear details of what you are attempting to do and any error message(s) you are getting etc. I'm sure someone here will be happy to help.

Complicated itunes / ipod Album Art Question?

This is a rather complicated question so I hope someone can help me. I have a 5th gen video ipod and run itunes (latest version 7.5) on Windows XP. I keep all my music on my home computer, syncing it daily with my ipod. I take my ipod to work and attach it to my PC there so I can listen through the speakers. I have to switch my ipod to the Manually Manage Music to be able to play it on that machine. What I want to do is see all the album artwork as I play them on that machine but only the artwork for music I have bought from itunes shows up on the work computer. All the art is on my ipod because if I listen to it detached from the PC all my art shows up on it. And I do have my ipod set to sync the album art.

If you can find the cover art you want online, you can just tell iTunes to forget the artwork for those songs and add the art you want manually.

VERY Complicated iTunes/Time Capsule/Library Transfer Question

Hi all-- looking for some help before I move my beloved iTunes library (over 500GB) from an old PC to a brand spanking new MacBook Pro and a 1TB Time Capsule.
I want to store the music files on the Time Capsule and access everything wirelessly. When I am away from the apartment/TC, I'll usually have my iPod on me-- which I would just plug in and access it through iTunes.
MOST important would be to have everything transfer over and run clean and fast, without weird errors etc. If I can keep my old playlists/play counts/date added etc, great but not necessary.
Any thoughts on the best solution? Do I transfer/copy over using the new sharing function in iTunes? Or is it safer to just connect the hard drive to the computer/time capsule-- and from there, do I make a folder on the TC my default iTunes folder?
Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated-- I went Apple (I also just bought an iPhone) for seamless and fast solutions, so I am hoping all this works!
Thanks,
Andrew

click here http://lifehacker.com/242468/geek-to-live--how-to-move-an-itunes-library-from-a- pc-to-mac-and-back
and here http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/how-do-i-move-my-itunes-library -from-pc-to-mac-and-keep-my-settings-intact/
and here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2518

Complicated user directory/itunes question

Here's my problem: My iTunes doesn't work. But only in my user name.
Here's the story:
I somehow changed the root level directory for iTunes in my old iMac (only in my user name).
When I got my new G5 iMac, I did the firewire target disk mode to transport everything over. This worked well, but also transferred over the bad indexing.
My kids can all use iTunes without a problem.
I have contacted AppleCare, and they suggested I do an archive and install. I did, and the problem persists.
Now, here are the error messages I get:
"The folder "iTunes" cannot be found or created, and is required. The default location for this folder is inside the "Music" folder.
When I go to my finder, the icon for my "Music" folder, only shows an alias. When I double click on the alias, I get the following error message:
"The volume for "Music" cannot be found. Insert the disk or connect to the server volume and wait for it to appear on the desktop, then try again."
If I do a "get info" on the icon, it tells me that the original is:
/Volumes/External Storage/Boris1/Music
My user name is Boris1.
I think what happened is that I had an external HD connected to the old iMac, and that may have been where I stored my music. That external HD has since been put to other use, and I don't think the volume to which the error message is referring still exists.
What I'd like to know, is if I can somehow manually create a new volume for the Music?
Thanks,
Boris

You may want to first throw away that bad alias, then create a Music folder in your home folder. My music is stored on my new big drive rather than in my home Music iTunes folder.
Then launch iTunes. Where is your music now? Is it in an old iTunes folder, and is it accessible? If so after you launch iTunes, go to the iTunes->Preferences, click on the Advanced icon, and navigate to the location where your music is.
I must say I'm seeing a awful lot of bad advice whose source is Applecare. There was no reason to do an archive and install. For iTunes to operate it needs an iTunes folder. You didn't have one, just a bad alias, which made it impossible for iTunes to work. Give it a good folder and you'll be back in business.
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Managing multiple iPods using iTunes question

My wife and I both have our own iPod Nano's. Of course, we don't always share the same taste in music. I know we can make our own playlists, but is there a way to customize iTunes so that it only puts her songs on her iPod and only puts my songs on my iPod.
Also, is any solution someone posts good for a Mac or a PC - my wife's coworker who has a PC has asked the same question since she has multiple iPods at her home.

For reference for future users that are reading this thread for help. I have tested this with our different iPods.
There are 3 methods one can use at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
Method 2 will work in that you can create a playlist or playlists [in iTunes] and can select which playlists go to and show up on different iPods. However, please note when using Method 2 that you won't save any iPod space on any iPod as all the music from iTunes will still be placed on all the iPods. It is convenient in that you can have only your playlists show up on your iPod [or show up on different iPods as Playlists that go to each iPod can be selected for each iPod (when) inserted].
This is complicated to explain, but when you select Sync Music to an iPod (which you'll want to do for all iPods since it's all about getting music to the iPod) you'll get to select which Playlists show up on individual iPods [that is currently connected to the computer] but in a nutshell all the music will be on all the iPods (the music is just hidden away from sight but still uses up the same amount of memory on each iPod).
This makes my head hurt thinking about it. But you should avoid method 2 if you need to save space on a specific iPod. If you have plenty of space on all your iPods and only want to see different playlists on each of them, then method 2 is fine. My thinking is that method 2 is fine until your different iPods start to fill up with music, then you should go to method 1 or 3 at the link http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
I hope this didn't confuse anyone more than it's confused me and if what I've posted is incorrect, then someone please amend my post with clarification.

Sync iOS Apps to iTunes - Questions on how exactly this works...

I'm going to put my questions up top, but my understanding of the current system is below, and may be relevant to the questions, if you'd like to read through it.
How can I back up / restore a SINGLE app, including its data (e.g. a game save file), to either iTunes or the cloud... or anything else for that matter. Does syncing an app to iTunes serve this purpose?
What IS the purpose of syncing an iOS app to iTunes? Does this sync include the data stored on my iOS device? For example, if I have a game in which I've made progress, is this progress stored on both my iPhone and my Mac once I've synced the app to iTunes?
If data IS synced along with the app, how is this data managed? Say I have two iPhones, both with the same game but different progress in each. If I sync iPhone A with iTunes, then sync iPhone B, will iPhone A's data overwrite iPhone B's? Or are there two versions of this app floating around on my mac?
If data is NOT synced along with the app, why on earth would I want a bunch of huge storage-hogging iOS apps that are identical to what I could download from the App Store taking up GIGABYTES of space on my MacBook's SSD?
And finally, should the answer to question 4 be "there is no reason to store 42GB worth of useless apps on your 256GB SSD alongside your already gigantic iOS device backup files," how would I go about removing these apps stored in iTunes without iTunes trying to delete them from my iOS device every time I want to sync some TV shows or podcasts?
My Understanding So Far:
Of the many things Apple has addressed and improved upon over the years, backing up iOS app data has strangely not been one of them. As I understand it, the only way to back up an app, including its data (e.g. the save data for a game), is to do a FULL backup of the ENTIRE device. The only way to restore an app, including the data that you backed up, is to restore the ENTIRE device, all other apps included, to a previous state.
The driving force behind these questions is that I'd like the option to delete an app from my iPhone when I'm finished with it - but I'd also like the option to re-download it in the future and pick up where I left off. In a perfect world, all these apps would automatically sync through iCloud or GameCenter, or at least have that option to "upload to iCloud" or "restore from iCloud." Even with these apps, I'm not entirely sure where the backed up files exist - somewhere on my iCloud drive separate from my iPhone backup, photos, contacts, etc? Is there a way to see a list of apps that are storing things in my iCloud drive, and even manage this data?
So if I wanted to back up an app's data that does NOT automatically back up to iCloud, it seems my only option would be to install one of the many 3rd party Mac <-> iOS data transfer apps, and copy the contents of the "Documents" folder to a designated directory on my Mac. Then I could delete the app off my iPhone. Say in the future I re-download the app - I'd use the same data transfer app to copy the backed-up data to the re-downloaded app's Documents folder, and we're back in business. The only downside is that if it's been a while and the app has undergone updates, this backed-up data might be corrupt or no longer relevant. Plus, it's kind of a hassle.
When I discovered iTunes was syncing my apps to my Mac, I thought it might be serving as a way to back up my apps, data included, to my computer. Okay, it seemed like a little overkill to sync the whole app along with the data, but when I discovered that you could UPDATE the apps within iTunes, I thought apple had solved the problem of storing backed-up data for out-of-date versions of an app - simply update the app in iTunes, it does what's necessary to your backed-up data, and when you want to put the app back on your iPhone, voila! Your old data's there, AND you've got the most recent version! But apparently this is not at all how iTunes app syncing works.
As I NOW understand it, when iTunes "syncs" an app to your Mac, it includes only the app's core data - the same as if you'd just downloaded it from the App Store, and it does so for EVERYTHING you've purchased, ever, whether or not it's on any of your iOS devices. I can see how this could be convenient if you live on a farm and want to restore an old app to your iPhone without an internet connection, but I don't think it's worth, unexaggerated, a FIFTH of my hard drive. Worse, I can't figure out how to get rid of them.
TL;DR
So, if you're still with me, what is the purpose of iTunes App Sync, and if it's as useless as I think it is, how do I get rid of it for good?

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Stedman

Two iTUnes questions...

I have two questions that experienced users may be able to answer:
- Most of my albums show in itunes with all the songs that belong to it. However, some Albums show one album cover for each single song on the album. How can I unify all songs that belong to one album into one album cover on itunes (I did already check if the underlying album information differs from song to song, but it seems to appear identical)?
- How can I ad album art work to all songs of one album simultaneously and not have to drag and drop for each single song of an album while playing the song?
Anyones help and hints are highly appreciated!

1) http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
Select all the tracks at once and make sure Artist and Album are correct. Then head over to the options tab, and check and uncheck "Part of a Compilation"=Yes/No.
2) Click on the words *Now Playing* above the artwork. It will change to *Selected Item*. You can select all the tracks at once (without them playing), and drag the artwork into it.
edit- Call me superstitious, but I think you have a chance of corrupting your tracks by writing tags to them while they're playing.
Message was edited by: Katrina S.

2 iTunes questions/issues

I had to recently reinstall Snow Leopard, now I have to issues. 1) when I double click on songs in my iTunes the music doesn't play. I have to right click and then hit play, how do I enable double click again? 2) my iTunes is now set as my default internet music player, how do I change this? 3) a General question, my DSL was with Verizon, now that has been transferred to Frontier. When navigating to web sites it seems that there is an issue with Frontier & Safari. How do I know this? I changed my PC to Safari from Explorer and now I am having the same issue on both my iMac and PC...no wonder they were trying to push me to Foxfire. Is anyone else having this issue, and have you been able to resolve it?
Thanks, I appreciate your help!

iTunes search for devices only once, I have this 'problem' too and I always need to close and re-open iTunes

Quite possibly the stupidest iTunes question ever!

I almost never listened to iTunes until recently; I used it to manage content that I only listened to on my iPod. Now I find myself listening to iTunes a lot, seated in front of my computer.
Here's my question: Why do some playlists play straight through, while others don't? I have a few playlists that require me to click on each individual song to hear it - it won't just play through.
What do I need to do to make my iTunes playlists play all the way through?!?
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hiya!
(sorry Zevoneer ... you answer wasn't displaying for me when i made my previous post)
I'll just have to get into the habit of unchecking them when I'm done, or I'll end up filling his iPod mini up with "crap" he'd never want to listen to. ;-)
hmmmm. using "Only update checked songs" can get a little unmanageable when you're trying to keep a lot of songs of an ipod.
why not try "Automatically update selected playlists only" instead?
create a new playlist ("mini syncing"?) containing the songs that you think he can stomach on the ipod.
then go into your "ipod" preferences tab (while the ipod is plugged in and showing up in the sourcelist), select "Automatically update selected playlists only", select "mini syncing" in the window under that, uncheck "update checked songs only", and click okay.
then you'd manage what goes on the ipod by moving songs in and out of the "mini syncing" playlist in itunes, and then syncing the mini.
(and you can recheck all the songs in your itunes library without having that affect what goes on the ipod.)
love, b

Two iTunes questions in regards to my podcast

Question #1 - I put up episode #7 late laswt week, but it still isn't listed in iTunes. Any idea why?
Question #2 - On the page where my podcast is listed it says it is under the literature heading, but when I go to that heading I don't see it listed amongst the rest. Anyone know why that might be?

1. Is your feed still valid? Did you ping iTunes?
From the Tech Spec:
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast?id=FEEDID
where FEEDID is your iTunes podcast numeric ID.
2. It's a popularity thing. There are thousands of podcasts in that category. Very difficult to make the top 100 or the featured list. Or, if you are talking about the browse feature, the categories seem to be limited to about a thousand listings. If your 'cast wasn't in the first thousand submitted, it probably won't show up there.

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I'm fairly new to Itunes and have a couple questions.
1) I have my music on an external drive. I have about 500 folders, each containing the music from one CD, organized by album name. This music is not downloaded from the web, but is copied from my own CDs.
I want to keep my music organized this way. I have loaded it into Itunes by dragging each folder to Browse window in Itunes. I have set Itunes to NOT copy my music or to let Itunes organize it.
Is there a better/faster/automatic way for me to get my music into Itunes? I want to be able to tell Itunes "Here are the folders on the disk. For each folder, create a folder in Itunes. Then, for each file in the folder on the disk, create that entry in Itunes in the correct folder."
2) My external drive used to be USB2; now it is FW2. One of the problems with USB2 was that it would sleep and dismount, and Itunes would forget the connections. In other words, even though nothing had changed, Itunes could no longer find the music file that was still right where it was supposed to me.
Is there a utility that looks at all the entries in Itunes and finds the file it's supposed to be linked to by matching the folder name and file name in Itunes with the folder name and file name on the disk?
Thanks for any help.

If you have a backup copy of your songs and videos, restore them from your backup. If not, there is a small chance you may be able to redownload them for free by submitting a request on one of the forms linked to from this page; if it doesn't work out, you will need to purchase them again if you want them back. At least one person has been granted a free redownload.
Updating your copy of iTunes to the current version will not erase anything from the iTunes library.
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I have two questions. One, how do I download selected songs from my iTunes folder on my Mac to my iPhone?
Two, is there a good site for video tutorials on iPhone?
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I would like the ability to browse the iTunes store on the iPhone when on the EDGE network and add them to a "download queue" that downloads only when WiFi access is available or when I am back on my home computer.
To me and many other people, the iTunes store on the iPhone serves as a great way to purchase and download new music on the fly. This is the most useful when I want a new song I hear on the radio or from a friend, etc. But since the iPhone store is only accessible via WiFi, the instant ability to find the song and purchase it is unavailable when I most want to use it. I usually forget the name of the artist or song by the time I get to a wifi network or computer.
This feature I'm requesting would allow me to purchase a song anytime anywhere but would not complicate or slow down downloads because they would not be allowed over EDGE. Thanks!

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