ITunes Library management questions

My name is Lucas osmond i am having difficulty trying to figure out how to do something to iTunes. Here is some background I have been a radio disc jockey for 20+ years. I have a very large library of music 40,000+ albums. A lot of my albums information is not in the iTunes database, I have taged 18,000+ albums. I have created a playlist with all of these albums I would like to remove everything in my library except for this playlist. The playlist is the question is 129.7 GB. My first attempt was to back up the entire playlist to a 160 GB iPod. I did this and and Then I enabled disk mode of the iPod and copied the folder called music to my desktop. The hard drive on my mac is 500 GB which means once I copied it to the desktop I did not have enough room of the computer to import the tracks into a fresh iTunes library. Is there an easier way to do this process? I realize i have a special case and what I am trying to do is not normal. If nobody comes up with any ideas is there anyway for a customer to talk to a Apple developer or iTunes engineer?

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Paris Jake wrote:
I'd appreciate any feedback from anyone who's actually upgraded to iTunes 10 and is using iTunes Library Manager 5.3.
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I am running Itunes 7.4 and have a 500gb drive physically attached via firewire 800. I currently have my itunes preferences set to copy files to the library when added. My question is. Can I only have itunes physically manage and store my music on the 500gb drive while keeping my video on another drive and have itunes just maintain a reference. In other words I want to have multiple physical either managed or referenced by the itunes library.
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ITunes library transfer question

Everyone,
I create a Libary on my MacBook Air it has 2000 songs. I want to move this to my Mac Book Pro machine and then Sync it with a new purchased iPod Touch. Can this be done and how. Do I just copy the iTunes Media folder?
I tested this and it copied to my Mac Book Pro by coping the iTunes Media folder at the file level to the Music ITunes folder on my Mac Book Pro held down the option key and selected the library. It opened fine on my Mac Book Pro just fine. Then I decided to test coping it to a device. I have a very old iPod I choose some songs and sync it. Worked fine can listen to the music on the iPod but when I go to iTunes all the music from the iPod is grayed out. I can play it from iTunes. WHY?
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If I purchase a 32GB iPod Touch can I plug it into my Macbook Pro and Sync it and it will copy the music over will the music from my library play and work on both in iTunes and on the newly pruchase iPod Touch.
I am trying to fine this out before purchasing the iPod Touch.
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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/
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I've tried TuneUp but don't necessarily love it. Goal is to add missing lyrics, Artwork, fix artists names, etc.
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No computer program is perfect, I'll give you that. But I still think iTunes is the best one going, especially considering the price!
I think there's a market that Apple could tap into to have an iTunes Pro, costing around $50 that would have more robust library management tools, to solve the problem you're talking about, also allowing mutiple computers to more easily share and update the same library and stuff like that.
All that said, I think there are some workarounds that might help you:
1) I'm not sure why you "re-import" your library each time iTunes loses the connection to the files. Isn't it faster just to close iTunes and re-open it. If iTunes sees the files are present at startup the ! will disapear.
2) Someone on this forum recently suggested a good tip: create an automator action to automatically connect to your network drive when you open iTunes, so you don't have remeber to manually do that tedious step.
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I have a music library several times larger than my 32gb ipod. My computer recently had a hard drive failure. I reinstalled itunes with everything else. My ipod of course still works. I have about 2750 songs on it. The problem is everything in my library is now checked.
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Can someone explain why changes made to iTunes media folders, such as renaming, deleting or moving albums, do not show up in itunes? In other words how do I get the content in iTunes to reflect the files in music/iTunes/iTunes media? thanks

jsr10 wrote:
Can someone explain why changes made to iTunes media folders, such as renaming, deleting or moving albums, do not show up in itunes? In other words how do I get the content in iTunes to reflect the files in music/iTunes/iTunes media? thanks
JSR 10,
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dj ikhan wrote:
How do I consolidate all the music in all my "iTunes Media Folder" (which is in 9 thousand different folder pathways) into 1 folder, without copying the files and only moving them?
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