ITunes Library Dilemma

Okay I have a small situation I would like to resolve....here's the 411 on what happened:
My 4 year old Dell laptop is running low on space so I recently purchased an external 500 GB hard drive. I did it primarily to copy all of my important information from my laptop in case in crashes (since PC's tend to do that). Prior to the purchase, my iTunes library consisted completely of mp3's I had previously collected. The bulk of my music was still on CD's.
After making the purchase I decided I could keep all of my music in one place by importing all of my CD's into iTunes. First, I copied my music folder from my laptop onto my external hard drive manually through Windows Explorer.
Then, I changed the default music folder in iTunes from C:\My Music to G:\My Music (G: is the external hard drive).
I then began importing all of my CD's (which took quite a bit of time), which ended up in G:\My Music. I was happy that I could now listen to all of my music in one place without pulling out CD's.
I then proceeded to edit album and artist information about all of the previously collected mp3's, *not knowing that I was editing the files on my laptop and not on my external hard drive.*
So here's the situation:
The C:\My Music folder contains all of the mp3's I collected prior to importing my CD's WITH major updates to aritst and album information. This entire folder is still mapped to my iTunes library.
The G:\My Music folder contains 1) all of my imported CD's and 2) all of the mp3's I collected prior to importing my CD's WITHOUT major updates. Only the imported CD files are mapped to my iTunes library. The mp3's without updates are not.
I would like to move C:\My Music into G:\My Music, essentially replacing all of the previously collected mp3's WITHOUT UPDATES with the mp3's WITH updates (and freeing up a considerable amount of space on my laptop). Is there a way to do this in iTunes while still preserving all of the playlists, or I do I have to re-create everything manually?
Hopefully that made sense.....I would appreciate any advice anyone can lend!

You should be able to use the "consolidate library" command to accomplish this.
First, double-check preferences:
On the Advanced tab, make sure iTunes is directed to your external hard drive, and that the option to "copy files to iTunes music folder location when adding to library" is selected. Click OK
Click your File menu, put your mouse over Library and choose Consolidate Library.
This basically looks at what's in iTunes and compares it to the music folder location denoted in preferences. Anything not located in that location will be copied to that location. Nothing should be duplicated, and, by design, nothing will be deleted from the original location, so deleting from your C: drive is still up to you.
Hope this is helpful
CG

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When you select the iPod in iTunes, you see the iPod's Summary screen on the main part of the iTunes window. There is a checkbox there for Sync only checked songs. Did you check that checkbox? If you want iTunes to ignore the songs you unchecked when syncing your iPod, that setting needs to be enabled. If you change that setting, you'll see the the Sync botton has changed to Apply. Click Apply.
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It seems like my dilemma may not be easily solved. Hopefully it isn't as complicated as I think it will be. Here's the situation:
My wife hates that, in order to see or do anything with the images she takes, I need to have iPhoto open on my computer (Mac Pro), and she then has to connect to it over sharing.
By the same token, I don't like that she buys iTunes content on her MacBook, which is sometimes a duplicate of content I already have. Now that the App Store is out, that is going to start getting really expensive.
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Options for iTunes library - quickly growing with mp4 videos

Hello all,
Here is my dilemma. I have a large library of MP4 videos (movies) in my iTunes library, which is growing daily. These are not iTunes purchases. I plan to unload these files to an external HDD. Home Sharing is the main reason why I use iTunes for my Movie library to begin with.
Here is my dilemma. I cannot, to my knowledge, run a partially referenced iTunes library- where Music is automatically copied to the iTunes Media folder, but Videos are not (but rather referenced on the external hard drive).
1) Is there any way around this besides unchecking "automatically copy to iTunes folder" everytime I add a Video to my iTunes Library
2) Would I be better off creating two seperate iTunes libraries? One for the referenced video files on the EHD and one for my music, which I want to remain on my internal drive.
3) Any other plausible solutions?
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MBP Late 2013''
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1) Is there any way around this besides unchecking "automatically copy to iTunes folder" everytime I add a Video to my iTunes Library
No, not automatically, not with how iTunes presently works.
2) Would I be better off creating two seperate iTunes libraries? One for the referenced video files on the EHD and one for my music, which I want to remain on my internal drive.
No. I used to think it would but at least with my old iTunes version any libraries made in my user account share the same single user preferences. Unless you disable the "automatically copy to" feature I am pretty sure either library will put the items in the same media folder because they both use the one set of preferences settings. You can check this by making a second test library but don't add anything to it. Then check advanced preferences from yur main library and this test library and see if they point to the same media folder.
3) Any other plausible solutions?
Do it the way Michael Allbritton outlines, or leave it set to organize automatically but put the movies on the external drive, then add them back while holding down the option key. This overrides the copy-to function.
Note, splitting media storage this way will work but has disadvantages. If links break for any reason, iTunes will not automatically search for ones that are not part of its media folder organization. If you need to move files to a different drive in the future it will be somewhat tricky as you are likely to end up with a lot of broken links. There may be ways to avoid this but it won't be automatic.

Can music already on an ipod be added to a new iTunes library ?

Hi Everyone - I recently purchased a laptop but have a dilemma with my iTunes libraries and iPods. My Nano was synched to my iTunes library on desktop PC, then I synched new classic iPod to same library, therefore both iPods had same music on them. I then set up iTunes on laptop and added some new music into the new library but then tried to merge Classic iPod (with old music) with new music in new library, but all it would allow was to synch them. This caused the problem I need help with as when synching, old music is erased and replaced with new music.
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If there is, can you tell me step by step how to, as I'm still a novice with these things !!
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This is copied from another thread. I think it is pretty clear. Here is the link to the thread as well. You will need to do this for each device if they all have different content on them.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11527071#11527071
1) Without connecting your iPad to your laptop, start iTunes. Click on Edit. Click on Preferences. Click on Devices. Check the box next to "Prevent your iPod etc. from automatically syncing." Click OK.
2) Now connect your iPad to your laptop and start iTunes.
3) When iTunes starts, right click on your iPad under Devices in the left column. Select Transfer purchases etc.
4) After it finishes transferring all your apps to your new laptop, right click on your iPad and select Backup your iPad.
5) After it finishes backing up your iPad, right click on your iPad and select Restore etc.
6) After it finishes restoring, left click on your iPad , then click on the Apps tab on top, and check the box next to Sync Apps, then click on Apply below.
If everything on your iPad looks good after the sync, go back and click on Edit / Preferences / Devices and UN-check the box next to Prevent your iPod etc. The only other thing you may want to check is if your contacts, bookmarks, etc. are syncing correctly now. If not, go to the Info tab after connecting and make sure you indicate which features you want to sync with what sources.
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How do I sync my iPad with a new iTunes library without erasing all the previously purchased apps & data on my iPad?

I'm sure this is a common issue, and I've google-searched for solutions but I cannot find a straight forward answer anywhere. I really hope an expert here can help me out.
I purchased an iPad last year and synced it with my iTunes library on my old PC laptop. Well, my PC laptop harddrive crashed last week and I cannot access anything on my laptop anymore. I did not make a back-up for my PC harddrive either. I know, next time I should make a back-up and I will. But that's irrelevant. The PC is gone now.
I replaced my PC this week with a brand new Mac Book Pro. Excited about my new purchase, I quickly hooked up my iPad with the hopes of easily transferring and accessing my iPages, iNumbers, and other productivity iPad apps seamlessly to my new beautiful Mac Book Pro. But now I've run into the nightmarish dilemma of not being able to sync my beloved Ipad with my new MAC without getting the warning that basically says "your iPad is already synced with another iTunes Library. You may only sync to one iTunes Library at a time. You will lose all your data if you sync to this new computer."
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how to use iTunes to sync is in the
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes
For MacBook Pro community and OS X
MacBook Pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
While it isn't as easy to just use a Mac iDevice as media storage as Android and Windows, you can add documents and such like Word, PDF and others manually in iTunes to have them sync as well.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1351
They are all there searchable from Bing, Google or every Mac product has a support page.
http://www.apple.com/support/

ITunes Consolidation: Will it create duplicates of media files if they already exist in the new itunes destination folder but arent being referenced by the itunes library?

I have a macbook pro from fall 2010. I have been using my external HD as my primary itunes folder for the past 7 yrs ( i.e it is organized by itunes default categorization, etc). However, there is some overlap between my external HD itunes folder and my comps original itunes folder (probably 20-30% of my current library's media files were already duplicated there from when i first bought the HD and transferred files to the external, however they are mostly referenced from the external now). Also there are files in the comp's itunes folder that are not on my external (probably due to organizational mishaps and podcast downloads when not connected to the external, etc). I do not know how many files this is the case for.
Recently, i decided that i wanted to consolidate all of my itunes music into one concise folder on my macbook's HD to avoid these issues going forward. I also just bought a new external which i will use to back up my comp's itunes folder once i consolidate everything to the comp. But i plan on using the itunes folder on the comp going forward or at least using the consolidate fcn to avoid these issues.
Here is my dilemma. Prior to learning of the consolidate feature today, I changed the default itunes folder in settings to the original itunes folder on the macbook and then manually dragged all of the media files from my external itunes folder to the macbook's itunes folder. There were a ton of duplicates or overlapping folders with similar artist names, so i opted to have them merge all folders where possible. After doing this, i realized the itunes library still references these files that i dragged and dropped from the external since that is where my default itunes folder used to be. At that point i then read and learned of the consolidate itunes feature which seems like the best way to do this. But i am afraid that if i consolidate my library to my macbook's itunes folder now, will it create duplicates of the 4000 + media files i just dragged to the macbook's itunes folder which are already in the itunes library but being referenced from the old external??
Question: Is there a way that i can make these files i just dragged to the macbook's itunes folder become the ones referenced by the itunes library through the consolidate feature without creating duplicates of these 4000+ files? I want to avoid having three copies of these files (two duplicates in the itunes and the originals on the external). Furthermore, is there a best way to find out which files in the macbook's itunes folder are not being included in the library after consolidating everything to the computer's HD? Then after that, what is the best way to start backing this all up to my new external, so that this overlapping issue doesnt happen again? Im assuming i just need to make sure to consolidate first when changing itunes folders going forward. Thank you. I know that was a lot to read but hopefully someone can help with this issue.

In general:
- The best way to check if files are in a library is to drag the whole media folder to the library. If something was missed it will be added. If it is in the library is won't be added a second time.
- If you have a second copy of a file and iTunes does not currently list that specific file in its database then even if it is identical to one already in the database it will add it a second time. So if you have file xyz on the internal drive and the external drive and add them to iTunes you will end up with two entries for the same thing in iTunes because you really do have to copies of the files. While this can happen with two copies on a single drive, it will almost definitely be the case when you have a copy of a file on two drives because iTunes really sees them as two different things.
-Unless you know how iTunes works, avoid moving files yourself. Let the consolidate feature do all the file moving. Manually moving files can really mess up iTunes unless you know what you are doing and have iTunes set to not try to do it itself.
- There's no clean and easy way to delete duplicates. The best thing is to change practice so you don't create them. Here are references:
How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php (commercial)
Posts by turingtest2 about different types of duplicates and techniques- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3555601 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/16042406 (Note: The DeDuper script is for Windows)
http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru_me/

New Pc: how can I transfer my Itune library into a new pc?

Hi,I will shortly be replacing my pc with a new one and I have a little dilemma:
1 = what do I need to do once I have a new PC up & running? If i just download Itunes will all my exsisting Libriray still be there?
2 = Also I have purchased some videos, How can I save them on external drive or cds?
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*1 = what do I need to do once I have a new PC up & running? If i just download Itunes will all my exsisting Libriray still be there?*
You'll have to move your music and library from the old computer. The iTunes library is a database that links to the songs on your hard drive, neither the library files or the songs will get to your new computer just by installing iTunes.
*2 = Also I have purchased some videos, How can I save them on external drive or cds?*
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When you copy the iTunes folder make sure you put it into the same location on the new computer. This has to be the exact same place, on a PC this is \Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\My Music\. Everything has to be exactly the same on the new computer including the Windows user account name. When you open iTunes on the new computer it will be the same as on the original one Songs, Playlists, Play Counts, Ratings etc. You should also use the same version of iTunes on both computers.
If you have an iPod it can be used as an external drive and you can move the iTunes folder onto it: How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer
Don't forget that you'll need to authorise your new computer to play your iTunes purchases. Also if you are disposing of the old one remember to deauthorise it so you don't use up one of your allowances: About iTunes Music Store Authorisation and Deauthorisation

My purchased television shows are not in my itunes library

Hello,
I hope someone can assist me with my dilemma. I searched these listings for my issue and the only similar response was about checking preferences and settings and television shows is checked.
I purchased 2 seasons of a cartoon for my kids and the 1st season is listed in my Itunes library under television shows but the 2nd season (downloaded after the first) only appears under "purchased from Ipad" and not television shows. One of the issues is that I cannot access through media sharing and apple tv this 2nd season and I am trying to find out how to get these Itunes purchased shows into my itunes library. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you

Did you sync them to your iphone?

Retrieving iTunes library after hard drive dies.

Here is my dilemma.
My external hard drive that containes my entire itunes library of over 17,000 songs just died.
First, what is the best way to reassign my iTunes library back to my computer instead of the now-dead external hard drive?
I have an iPod that also has all my music on it but it is set up to automatically sync with iTunes. Once I get my iTunes library back on my computer will it erase everything on my iPod? I am aware of some programs that can take music off an iPod and put it on any computer, so if it doesn't earse it all when it syncs, I would most likely do this.
I also have a seperate external hard drive set up with Time Machine. I could possibly retrieve some of my old iTunes library from it but I only need to restore iTunes and not the entire computer.
What is my best course of action for mantaining the majority of my iTunes library?

Unfortunately unless you specifically told Time Machine to back up the contents of your external Media HD it won't do it automatically, so it seem you iPod is the only repository for your music. There are plenty of tutorials on the web that will walk you through getting music off your iPod.

Switching iTunes Library to External HD

Okay so heres my dilemma...
I want to use my external HD as my new iTunes library. However I want to keep all the music from my old library on my internal drive still in iTunes.
The main reason for this change is I want to have my podcasts be saved to the external drive rather than my internal laptop drive.
however im in school and will be carting my laptop around a lot, without the external.
as such is it possible to boot itunes without the external plugged in and still be able to use iTunes to access my old library?
did that make sense?

emhjay,
I think I understand what you are trying to do, as I have done it myself.
First, I have 3 iTunes libraries. I use the shareware software "Libra" to manage them. One is my everyday library that I keep ON my Macbook Pro. One is my 'Master" library that I keep on an external hard drive. The 3rd is my new "iphone" library where I have ripped everything to a lower bitrate so I can fit more on the phone. Libra allows me to jump between the 3 as I need to, keeping seperate playlists and locations for each set of files.
On my everyday library, I keep all my music on the Macbook, but the videos stay on an external drive. Once the videos are on the computer, there are two ways I manage the file and its location.
For videos I download from iTunes: It downloads to my MCP HD, and once a week I move them to the external drive. I have folders set up for TV/Movies/Music Videos. I used the Advanced preference to unselect "Copy files to itunes library." so itunes knows where the file is and that it's outside the regular library. When the external drive is not connected, I get the exclamation mark, but they remain put in the playlists. You cannot do a consolidate library after doing this.
The other option would be to move the default location of the library by using the Advanced Preference pane. Then download the podcasts and move it back if/when you add music/videos, but otherwise it can stay put. THis might be a pain however depending on how often you add non-podcast content.
There's likely other options as well, but that's what I use. I like Libra a lot, by the way. I use it regularly.

External HD/iPod swapping for iTunes library?

I am very interested in freeing up hard drive space, so I'm exploring ways to offload my iTunes library without losing seamless integration. My idea is to move my iTunes library to my external hard drive as its permanent home, and pointing iTunes to look for the library on the external hard drive.
However, during the day I sometimes don't bring my external hard drive with me, so I'd be without an iTunes library for music. My solution for this is to just bring my iPod along with me (which I do all the time) and connect it to my computer and listen to music in iTunes streamed from my iPod. All in all I'm pretty sure this scheme will work.
My actual question about this is whether or not, when not connected to my external hard drive, iTunes will create a new iTunes folder on my computer? As in, will I have to relink iTunes to my external hard drive once I reconnect it? I hope someone gets my question! Thanks in advance!

APPLE CUSTOMER SERVICE SOLVED MY PROBLEM!!!
I called Apple Customer Service, and the nice lady there figured out and SOLVED MY PROBLEM! The one thing I had NOT tried was to do a physical reset while the iPod was hooked up via USB to the computer.
Here's the sequence which solved my problem:
1) Do a physical reset of the iPod. Toggle the HOLD switch back and forth 4 or 5 times. Then place the iPod on a hard flat surface, press hand hold the center button and press MENU. Let the iPod reset itself. Then, turn the iPod OFF.
2) Connect the iPod to the computer via the USB connection. Wait for the computer to finish "seeing" the iPod.
3) with the iPod still connected, repeat Step 1 above. That is, perform a complete, physical reset of the iPod *while it is connected to the computer via usb*.
After I did the above 3 steps, my iPod behaved perfectly with iTunes and my external 250GB hard drive.
Note, I had previously changed the Drive ID of the iPod from "F" to "P", just at the recommendation of others. I'm not sure if that helped or not. (My iPod was showing up as Drive F, and my external 250GB hard drive shows up as Drive "E". Just because "F" looks a lot like "E", I decided arbitrarily to change the Drive ID from "F" to "P", for iPod.)
THANK YOU TO APPLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT FOR FIXING MY DILEMMA!

Partial iTunes library backups

Ok, by now I already know by heart how to properly do a whole iTunes library back up, and I’ve found plenty of good support info’ here regarding it, and the safest ways to do it.
Now my big dilemma that is still cracking my head and I haven’t been able to find the answer to it anywere, is what is the best way to do “partial” backups of the library?
I mean, I have this library of over 6,000 songs, and I need to do a back up on HD of say some 700 of them. If I try to select them all, and just drag them directly either from iTunes or using Finder, they system gets locked and just doesn’t do it. Seems environments like iTunes or Finder just can’s handle that big loads of info’ to transfer in one single step.
The only way it goes through is if I select them in batches of up to say 10 songs each time; but at that pace, I’d have to go through the same steps over and over some 70 times in order to finish my back up on a HD.
Is there a more practical and efficient way to do something like this?

dizny71 wrote:
1. If I move the iTunes folder does this also move the apps and movies with it
if you let iTunes keep your library organized (preferences > advanced) and all your content is inside the iTunes music (or media) folder, yes.
2. What is the best practice for backing up my library once it's moved to the external? Does Time Machine back it up since the pointer is directing it to the new external or should I use another backup program like Carbon Cloner to backup my iTunes data?
if the external is connected directly to your Mac, there is enough space on the TM destination drive, and the external is not excluded from backups, TM will back the drive up.
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/2.html
also ckeck out _*The Complete Guide to Backing Up your iTunes Library*_
JGG

Windows can see iTunes Library, Mac can not see Windows library

All,
I'm having a bit of a dilemma here.. I think the following issues are sourced by the same root cause.
First i can't not get my iphone remote.app to be recoginized by my Mac OSx desktop, it works fine with my windows desktop(they are plugged into the same router and settings look good here so I'm discounting the router as the cause). Yes I have made sure to give access to itunes in the Firewall settings
Second, My windows machine can see my Mac's shared itunes library, yet my Mac machine can see my window's shared itunes library.
Any suggestions will be appreciated!and thankyou!

I had this problem recently, and it was because I had both the XP firewall enabled and the firewall included in my F-Secure client. Check your Windows machine to make sure you don't have such a firewall conflict.

How 2 Multiple backups while changing itunes library?!?!

i have a huge dilemma. My music collection is huge, too huge actually and i do NOT listen to all the music on my computer. I have a 12" powerbook with only 40 gigs free (after all the software is installed) but with all my music, i barely have any more room left.
Question is: I have made a backup of my current itunes library on an external.
NOW: i want to delete LOTS of my songs from my laptop to free up space but that's ok because i can always retreieve them from my external...
DILEMMA: Once i've deleted some songs and of course add some, let's say in about 2 months i want to back up my itunes library again. if i just drag the itunes Music folder into my external, it's going to replace my backup itunes music folder that has ALL my songs in it already. So it'll replace my let's say 30 gigs of music with the brand new folder that only contains lets say 15 gigs of music and i lose 15 gigs of music!!
is there a way to have a central backup folder that will just ADD songs so i can continue to build my external music library? know what i mean? I NEED HELP! i just want to continually ADD music in ADDITION to all the music i've already backed up. i don't want to lose my music!!
PLEASE HELP!!

Hello realitylpma,
You do all those songs indivually and have iTunes locate them or you can move the songs back to were they were. Once that is done, the go through the step to organize your library. Take a look at the articles below to sort you out with finding where the songs was before as well as organizing the library.
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS1408
Locate and organize your iTunes files
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht1391
iTunes: Understanding iTunes Media Organization
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht3847
Regards,
-Norm G.

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