How do I make folders and rename folders in itunes

Question

In my music I had all my Beatles songs in The Beatles file, all my Type O-negative in its own file, and Johhny Cash in his own folder, etc,etc,etc.
I had very few complete cds I just took the cuts I like for each band or artist and put them in a file.
When I downloaded my mp3 files from my music to itunes I selected the option to keep them named the way I had them. Well guess what, the way I had them and the way itunes thinks I had them is completley different.
I now have multiple folders by the same artist most with one song in them, and I have to open the majority of them to find out who they are because it didn't put the main artist or the band first It listed the members I think alphabetically I'm really Peed off.
How do I regroup and rename things so I have things back like they were. And I don't want to here you don't need to bother with that in itunes. How the **** else are you going to find what your looking for if it's not organized. I will have 30 gig of music in itunes when I get done and what a mess that will be. It doesn't have to look the same but I want all the songs by one artist or band together with a name I recognize. right now all I have is another time consuming mess on my hands.

Answer 1

I have the same issue. I imported 817 CD's to load on my Ipod (the task of several days work)and when I went into the folders found I have 1175 'albums' from 817 cd's. Now... one would "think" that it would stand to reason ALL the songs on a CD would be placed in one (and only one) folder.. because *gasp at the concept here will ya Itunes* they are all from the SAME CD!
But instead the brilliant coders at Itunes for some odd reason decided to FUBAR this natural and understandable concept into some unreasonably bulky, overly complicated pile of GARBAGE.
If I didn't need Itunes to load my Ipod, it would be off my computer faster than you can say "Itunes is a piece of crap".
I don't look forward to migrating my Twisted Tunes MP3's from my backup disk... I am equally sure Itunes is going to create a monstrous mess out of that as well.
I did find one "small" workaround on this though... when importing CD's if you name the artists section all the same name (misc for multiple artists) and make sure the album name is distinctive.. so far they seem to place them in one folder per CD. It's a PITA to have to MANUALLY change the information before importing, and gives me significantly less incentive to consider ever buying another apple product, but it works.
Dragon