HT1473 Organizing My iTunes Library

In my iTunes Library; How do I get all the songs from compilation albums in one folder?

Generally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix things.
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
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Custom Organizing of Itunes Library - Part 2

Hello, Jim - I am a brand-new discussion member, was sent here after 2 one-to-one sessions where the tutors couldn't tell me how to organize my iTunes music library. When I typed a "Search" for this, your comments to others indicated you're very knowledgeable about this, so I hope you see this.
I bought a terrabyte HD to which I have moved my iTunes. I wanted to begin moving the massive music library over there (all uncompressed, ergo the TB) and have begun this with a great deal of hassle. I have tried to organize the library the way my real-life library is organized on my shelves: artist (last name, for those of us who have an IQ above room temperature!), and then separately, the compilations/boxed sets that have various artists sometimes - concerts, operas, original cast and soundtrack recordings, things like this. The Apple Store kids told me I couldn't do this, :-O - find that hard to fathom! It isn't even the Dewey decimal system! Do you have any suggestions to help me that doesn't have me making ridiculous playlists I will never use? In addition to having stuff disorganized all over my library, I also find that cuts/tracks WITHIN a recording get imported all out of order.
Many thanks in advance for whatever you can suggest - apologies for being so long-winded, but it was a long ridiculous road getting here, and it's been extremely frustrating paying for these one-hour sessions with people who may not even have commercial recordings of their own!
Cheers -
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Momus15,
As I said earlier, it's best to start your own thread rather than "Threadjack" on another's. It makes it difficult for the original poster to sort through answers to his own question. Also, since this question is already marked as "Answered", few others will read it. You can click on "Back to Topic List" below and then you'll find the "Post New Topic" right under the forum name at the top left. I also recommend glancing at the "Help and Terms of Use" link at the right under the Welcome Momus15.
You can find out a lot about iTunes by using the iTunes help menu. When the help window opens, there is a "Index" link at the far right. Looking at sorting you'll find:
Information about the items in your library, such as artist and other song information, is stored in the item's Info window (select an item and choose File > Get Info). You can use this information to sort the items in your library or create playlists. You can even change the information to suit your needs. For example, you might want to:
◼Group individual movements on a classical CD into one work by indicating the movement (for example, “Piano concerto in A Minor, Op. 54”) in the Grouping field.
◼Group songs that are part of a compilation together in your library by selecting the “Part of a compilation” checkbox. Then choose iTunes > Preferences, click Advanced, and then select “Group compilations when browsing.”
◼Identify the individual artists on a tribute album in the Artist field, and then type “various” in the Album Artist field.
◼Create your own genre category by choosing Custom from the Genre pop-up menu.
◼Change the order in which tracks on a CD play by changing the numbers in the Track Number fields.
◼Create a Smart Playlist that includes only songs that are just the right speed for your workout by adding the number of beats per minute to the BPM field.
◼Identify a movie as a music video (click the Video tab and then choose Music Video from the Video Kind pop-up menu).
◼Click the Sorting tab and enter custom text to sort by.
You'll find more info about sorting in these articles:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1399
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
http://www.macworld.com/article/135566/2008/09/gridviewoptions.html
Finally, look at the iTunes tutorials: http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials/

HT1473 keeping my itunes library separate from my husband's library

i have an apple id i use for itunes. i just opened one for my husband to get all his old CDs loaded on the ipad mini i got him for christmas. how do i load his music without mixing it all up with mine. i verified the new apple ID and when i'm logged in as him all my music is "in the library". i even tried loading one of his stinky CDs and it landed in my library. i DONT want his music in my library and on my nano... and i'm guessing he doesn't want my music on his new ipad. help.

The best way is for each of you to have your own user account on your computer. Then your iTunes libraries will be kept completely separate.
Regards.

HT1473 Accessing my itunes Library

I recently had to purchase a new computer because my old computer hard drive died. I logged into ITunes on the new computer, and none of the songs I previously purchased have shown up. How do I access my purchased songs?

Hi AbbyMay128,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Do you have a backup of the music folder from your old computer that you could put on the new one?
If not, you can authorize the new computer to work with your iTunes Store Apple ID and then download past purchases.
The links below will explain more ....
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
iTunes Store: About authorization and deauthorization
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
iTunes 11: Frequently used features
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5649
Hope this helps ...
- Judy

HT1751 now that I have Organized my itunes library .How can I now clean out my old cloud and start with a nice clean labeled list of music

I need to know how to clean out my old cloud and start fresh one?

Restore the iPod (thus erasing it), resync all the music to it from the PC.

Songs show up in my iTunes Library that I have not purchased - anyone else have this happen?

So I was just organizing my iTunes library and am finding songs that I have not purchased, have not interest in and are coming via the cloud.
Is anyone else seeing this? When I try to delete, it will only allow me to hide them... ***?!

Is your cloud account shared with anyone else? Maybe they're adding them.

Itunes Library Will Not Organize

Hi All,
I'm a bit of a neat freak when it comes to organizing my itunes library. Usually I have no problems because I am content with how itunes keeps my library organized. However, I have noticed in the last few months that my library will not stay organized even though the preferences are set for it to do so. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
THX.

I seem to be having the same problem. Recently ripped my entire CD collection, and somewhere along the way, all the files started getting dumped into 'Unknown Artist\Unknown Album\' even though the album and artist information is displayed properly within iTunes.
Anybody make a suggestion?
-Trev

IPhoto: slideshow music selection shows OLD iTunes library.

Hi,
I have re-organized my iTunes library a while ago (new playlists, different location of the files, everything in AAC, etc., but now I can't see my music anymore in iPhoto. All I see is the old iTunes library and I can't figure out how to 're-sync' this with my current library.
Ideas anyone?
Oh, OS 10.3.9, iPhoto 6.0.4 and iTunes 6.0.5.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks and happy Mac-in',
Erwin
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi Erwin,
Not sure if this apple kb will help, but it is worth a try.
iLife-cannot see iTunes files in other iLife applications
iMac 800 512, iBook 700 640 Mac OS X (10.4.7) AE, Canon i9900, Canon LIDE30, Canon S2, iPod 3gen, shuffle

HT204053 iTunes Library question

Organizing my iTunes Library I somehow deleted my 1500+ songs, it's empty! They're still on my iPhone though.
So my question is:
How do I transfer my music FROM my iPhone TO my MacBook Pro so I can restore my Library the way it was? Only 10% of these songs was purchased on the iTunes store so I already transfer those but... that didn't help too much.
I thought my music would be in the cloud but I don't even know where to find it. Not sure if it's because my iTunes Apple ID is different from my iCloud Apple ID which HAS to be a @me.com account in order to sync emails, etc.
Thanks in advance!

You can't just delete tunes like that, they would at least go into the trash, however if you have since emptied the trash, you will need to restore from your computer backup.

I'm trying to get organized and I just added a bunch of books and pdfs to my itunes library. They were all added immediately to my ipad and iphone even though, itunes automatically putting books on my idevices

I'm trying to get organized and I just added a bunch of books and pdfs to my itunes library. They were all added immediately to my ipad and iphone even though I did not want this. I added them to itunes using add to library and I have both devices set to sync only selected books.
How do I do this in the future so this doesnt happen? Its a lot of work to now manually erase them from each device and it sent my phone over capacity.
thanks

I dont see the difference in the posts. I dont think theres anything inaccurate or misleading about what I wrote. The items were immediately added to my ipad and my iphone, even though I have them both set to sync only select items. As soon as I added new titles to my itunes library, they were immediately added to the devices. Not on the next sync. Immediately. Both devices were plugged into the computer at the time. Sorry if I failed to mention they were plugged in but I dont see the signifigance youre making out of it. The problem persists anyway.
Now that I did a test without the devices plugged in, the new items were still added as soon as I plugged my devices into the computer ( I do not have them set to sync over wifi).
Since I have both devices set to manually select items to sync, of course I want to manually select new items to sync. For instance, I am not going to read any of these magazines or books on my phone, ever, and I dont want to waste valuable space with them.
So I'm trying your advice:
I just tried deselecting sync books. It erased all content from ibooks on my device. I then dragged
one title onto the device, and it just goes back to syncing select books, with the one title selected.
It appears that wont work to solve my issue. The next time I add something to itunes it will be put on my phone. Is this really something most people want? To select to manualy control what content is synced, but then have things automatically added. It seems inconsistent to me.

My itunes library has organically grown from more than one itunes account but all now on a separate computer. If I upgrade to iTunes match will I have to pay for each account?

My itunes library has organically grown from more than one itunes account (all paid for by me) but all now on a separate computer. If I upgrade to iTunes match will I have to pay for each account or just once, for the computer?

No. Provided the computer that you use to upload / match your Songs is authorised to play all of the Songs all works well - once complete you can download Song files that will play on your libraries / other computers without each computer having to be authorised.

I want to remove my itunes library to a thumb make memory space - how can I make sure I keep all playlists and organizing intact?

I want to remove my itunes library to a thumb make memory space - how can I make sure I keep all playlists and organizing intact?

Do you mean a flash drive? I don't know if I would trust one of those entirely. Make sure you make a backup.
Copy the entire iTunes folder to the flash drive. Start iTunes while holding down the option/alt key and guide it to the library on the flash drive. If you forget to plug in the flash drive before starting iTunes in the future you will have to do the option start thing again.

"keep folders organized" feature duplicated my itunes library

I recently downloaded and installed the latest version of itunes for windows vista. During the installation, I was asked if i wanted itunes to keep my folders organized, or if I wanted to do it myself. I chose to have itunes keep my folders organized. I then closed itunes. The next time I opened itunes my library was duplicated, thus causing my library to double and preventing my ipod to load new songs, saying there is not enough space due to the duplicate songs. I looked at each of the duplicated song's info and noticed that one of the files is located in the folder "itunes library", while its duplicate is located in the folder "itunes music". I then went to both of those folders and noticed the "itunes music" folder holds a folder for each individual artist and their respective albums, while the "itunes library" folder just has every individual song file, listed alphabetically. Should I just delete one of these folders, and then remove the dead files from my library, thus removing the duplicate entries? And if so, which folder do I delete?

If you want iTunes to keep it organized in artis/album format, then delete the other folder that has +every individual song file, listed alphabetically+.
I'd try it on just one song first, to make sure you have it straight.

HT1473 How can I transfer my music (not purchased from Itunes) from my Ipad/Iphone to my new Itunes library on a Macbook Pro?

I've recently bought a new Macbook Pro and in my Itunes Library everything I have purchased from Itunes is in my new Itunes Library.
However I want to transfer all my music (not purchased from itunes) from my Ipad/Iphone to my new Itunes Library.... and I have absoutely no idea how to do this? Also I'm scared to press sync when my ipad is plugged into my Mac incase will loose all this music!
Help Please!

The iphone/ipad/ipod is not a backup/storage device. The sync is one way - computer to iphone/ipad/ipod.
Copy everything from your old computer or your backup copy of your old computer.

HT1473 My computer crashed and when it was cleaned and rebooted I lost a lot of music from my iTunes library. Is there a way to sync (or copy) my iPod with iTunes?

Hey y'all,
My computer had a virus recently and everything had to be "cleaned". I've noticed that a big chunk of my iTunes library is missing. I did make sure everything was on my iPod before the IT guy took over, so the question is: Can I upload the music in my iPod into iTunes? If yes, how?
Thanks for your help.
Sue

Copy the entire iTunes folder from your backup to /Music/ on your computer.

HT1473 Organizing My iTunes Library

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