Itunes messing up my music files on my computer
I am sure that these questions are probably answered somewhere in this post so I apologize.
I have all my music on my hard drive in named folders for each artist, with named sub-folders with named songs for each CD/album.
1. How do I keep iTunes from messing up these files on my hard drive?
2. How can I import the folders into Itunes keeping the same setup as on the hard drive? When I import the folders, Itunes seperates some of the files into different places in the Itunes library
3. How do i prevent iTunes from creating duplicate files of the songs/folders when importing them?
4. When importing some folders, they seem to import but I cannot find them in the iTunes library?
Thanks for any help provided!
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space.... Good Luck and hope you get what you want accomplished.....
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