Layout in itunes

when i rearrange the layout of songs in itunes and sync my itouch, the layout sequence does not match itunes on the itouch

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Cannot listen or purchase songs under new layout of iTunes 9.0

Under the new layout I cannot listen or purchase songs. Also the homepage is basically just blank with only the right column with top songs, albums showing. The bizarre thing is that all comes out fine with the pages that have kept the old layout such as iTunesU or some iMix (was even able to download a song). Any help to fix this? Thanks in advance.

I am having the same problem and saw this in a previous thread -
1. restored system to yesterday (before I'd attempted the whole update fiasco)
2. backup itunes library
3. used revo uninstaller for a complete uninstall
4. restart
5. run clean install off new installer download (even though logged in as admin, I also used the right click "run as Admin" option for good measure)
And voila upgrade
Yes, it's a pain, but it did work. My best guess is that something was corrupted during the first failed update attempt, which resulted in an incomplete uninstall, thus screwing up the clean install. But that's just speculation...
I want to do this with mine but don’t know how to “restore system to yesterday”? let me know if you find out how?

Sync folder-layout to itunes

hello together,
is there any way to *sync my folder-layout* from the iphone to itunes instead of syncing the itunes-layout to the iphone?
i'm using one iphone and two computers (pc & laptop) - would be much easier, if there is a way to choose the "sync-direction".
any idea?
thx in advance
Message was edited by: selette

In a word, no.
The sync process for iTunes content is a one way transfer process only - from your selections with your iTunes library on your computer to your iPhone.
In regards to iTunes content, an iPhone can be synced with an iTunes library on a single computer only and photos can be transferred from a single computer only. When transferring iTunes content and photos from another computer, all iTunes content and photos transferred from a different computer will be erased from the iPhone first.

I have recently bought my mother the newest shuffle.The layout of iTunes when browsing her iPod has completely changed.

Hi, I'm not sure if this question has been asked before, and apologies if it has, but I've been tearing my hair out, trawling google for an answer, so any advice you can offer would be GREATLY appreciated! As I have mentioned, my mother has the latest model of an iPod shuffle, whereas I use a pretty old (but faithful, nonetheless!) iPod Nano (I think). When I plug in my iPod to iTunes and browse the songs that are on it, I basically have a list much like when I am just browsing my iTunes library. However, when I try to use my mother's iPod in the same way, I have a weird, disorganised, confusing page (I will try to attach a screenshot to show this) and a lot of the music my mum has put on her iPod is not showing up in the list of songs and artists it presents.The songs definitely have been added though as I can see them when I look at her iPod separate from the laptop. If anyone can tell me how I can change the settings so that my mother's displays the same, I would be ever so grateful, as she is completely disillusioned with her iPod and wants to throw it out the window. I am running iTunes on Windows 7 if this helps at all.
Thank you again for any help you can offer; you will save my mother and I of dying an early death of high blood pressure!
Jess

Hi there,
Things have changed quite bit in the latest versions of iTunes. The article below goes over the process of setting up syncing in iTunes 11 and you may find it useful.
iTunes 11 for Windows: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12313
-Griff W.

Help I have purchased a new laptop with windows 8 and with the new layout of itunes store i cannot find the store menu to authorise it . Any help gratefully received ;)

any ideas on this one - i am slowly loosing the will to live:(

After opening iTunes, you will find a button at the top left corner of the window, so press it. Then, you will see the Store menu or an option to authorize the PC. Read > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5610

Feature request - Organize iPhone screen layout in iTunes Apps window...

As much as I love the jiggly icons and ability to lay out things as I like on my iPhone, I would like to see them all in my iTunes App window, and drag and drop them in that window instead. It would be faster and easier to organize things in the App window, and of course, adjust things a little on the road with the current method on the phone.

Tell Apple:
www.apple.com/feedback

Can't go to Apps layout in iTunes window on Windows XP

Everything was ok, before i update my iTunes on my PC, and update IOS on my iPhone.
Now I can't go to Apps tag in iPhone window on my PC (iTunes).
Any hot-fix?

I don't subscribe to any newspapers or magazines but a quick Google search led me ta an article that stated .....
Go to the App Store, tap on the featured tab, swipe down to the of the screen to where your Apple ID is on the left side. Tap on your ID, enter your password and then tap on View Account. Scroll down to manage subscriptions and you can turn off auto renewal in there.
Read about it here.
http://ipadinsight.com/ipad-tips-tricks/how-to-manage-newspaper-and-magazine-sub scriptions-on-the-ipad

Delete itune cache?? my apple store layout is messed up!!

After the latest update, My app store layout in itune is so messed up... I'm wondering how to delte itune cache to fix it!!

Could you post a screenshot of the Store on an image-hosting site and post back with a link to the screenshot, please, Mikol?
Pixentral is free and doen't require an account:
http://www.pixentral.com/

Wanted: design info on new iTunes U layout

we will shortly be moving from the old layout in iTunes U to the new one and I need to update all the graphics used on our various pages. I have been looking through the documentation (eg http://deimos.apple.com/rsrc/doc//iTunesUAdministrationGuide/DesigningYouriTunes USite/chapter10_section_2.html#//appleref/doc/uid/AdminGuide-CH7-SW3) but it still refers to the old layout. Can anyone tell me where I can find the updated version of this? Thanks.

I presume you're talking about the iTunes U Public Site Manager. A lot of the info is available directly on the pages. There's information about designing the banners on the page where you have to upload them. The link 'Sample banners and more information' links to here:
http://deimos3.apple.com/rsrc/doc/UsingiTunesUPublicSiteManager/AboutYourProvide rPage/chapter5_section_4.html#//appleref/doc/uid/iTUPSM-CH11-SW2

Itunes, downloads, unable to find music.

I recently bought a new iMac computer. I switched from a pc. I migrated my itunes to the new Mac. I purchased music on my iPad that evening and it automatically downloaded on to the new computer, but it could not find the files. After about an hour or so on the phone with apple I had to use the express lane and telll iTunes that it didn't download "properly". The regranted me the purchases, all good. But now after downloading songs on my iPhone it's doing the same thing. The songs show up in my iTunes music but it has the exclaimation point telling me it cannot find the file. This is a brand new computer, I've not moved my iTunes folder or music folder at all. I'm getting frustrated, it doesn't seem right that everytime I buy a song from my iPad or iPhone I have to ask iTunes if I can also have them for my computer. Could I have done something wrong with the migration? Do I need to sync my phone for it to find that I have purchased the music. I like Apple but this computer has been nothing but a headache when it comes to iTunes, and I had hoped it'd be easier. If someone has any idea or experienced this themselves and was able to resolve it, I'd be glad to hear it and thankful for any information.

Opening the old library files is not going to help in any way... that's not the issue.
The issue is iTunes cannot locate the media or app file, so let's stop spending time trying to open old library files.
When attempting to locate the file via iTunes, if iTunes simply opens Windows Explorer to the iTunes folder, that's telling us that iTunes does not actually find the file. We need to point iTunes to where the file really is.
Where are iTunes Files located
Understanding iTunes Media Organization
The two links above should help with understanding the layout of iTunes folders and where to look for the files.

I am so sick of the crappy way iTunes and iPad handle app folders.

I'm a long-time iPad user who, for various reasons, has accumulated over 500 apps. It is absolutely essential that I keep my apps organized into folders. This requires a lot of folders, too: with a maximum of 20 apps per folder, that's at least 25 folders.
What prompted this message is that after the last time a major software update decimated my carefully-constructed folder organization (which itself is inexcusable), I spent two hours with the horrible iTunes interface dragging and dropping and creating new folders and getting everything re-organized, finally, only to have iTunes fail to sync the changes to my iPad.
It synced, but afterwards, the iPad still had its old folder layout, and iTunes still indicated the new one. I power-cycled the iPad and tried syncing again: same thing. I quit and re-launched iTunes and synced again, and lo, iTunes wiped all the tedious work I'd done and just copied the defective organization back from the iPad into iTunes.
This isn't a one-time thing. It's consistently been the most time-consuming, time-wasting aspect of owning an iPad, and really, it's inexcusable for Apple to have let this go on and on for so long.
Why not just let them float free instead of constantly hitting my head against the "folder wall" and gradually move the ones I use a lot to early pages? Well, it turns out that if you have too many apps installed, the iPad doesn't show them all: there's a limit to how many pages of apps it will show. Dang it.
Why not use the search page to get to my apps? Well, I could, but some of them are named in unfortunate ways. (Also, when you search for an app, it doesn't indicate whether it's located in a folder nor in which folder it's located. That's not just stupid: it's caused me to go manually poking through folder after folder to find an app that I've "mis-filed".)
And if you have multiple iDevices? I recently jumped from Android to iPhone, and guess what: I had to go through the whole, pain-staking process of creating a folder organization for the phone, because I couldn't use the iPad's as a template. I did learn my lesson, though: the iPhone only has installed the apps that I use on a regular basis. At least that cuts down on the length of the pain if not the intensity.
C'mon, Apple, get a clue! This app folder "organization" is about as crappy as it gets. (Though you have a bad history of poor organization: how long did it take to get photo albums?) Please, please, please, if you can't at least get the novice-programmer-stupid-bugs out of your folder sync/iTunes logic, come up with an alternative.
Here, I can think of a REALLY EASY one right off the bat: let me tag my apps and search/access them via tags. (Oh, say, then maybe I could just have a "smart folder" to make them easier to find.) (What? Be able to organize apps in more than two dimensions?) Or at least make the drag-and-drop-to-move-apps interface (on both the iPad and iTunes) less fragile and frustrating.
Back to bashing my head against the wall... thanks for listening.

I've had a not-so-rewarding experience with one of Apple's support-issue-submission forms. It was a reminder that as much as I'd prefer to think otherwise, Apple may be unusual, but it's just another company where it's not possible for everyone to be "above average".
Frankly, I'd be happy in this case if iTunes dropped an XML file with apps-in-folders, let me mess with it, and then loaded and applied it to shuffle things around. That's one thing I love about OS X, but then that also allows one to be too smart for one's own good. Be careful what I ask for, I guess...

How to reinstall iTunes and not lose everything from external drive.

I had to reformat my hard drive. All my iTunes files were (and still are) on an external drive.
When I download the latest version of iTunes, I installed and set up my preferences to change the location of iTunes Media File to External Drive J:\iTunes\iTunes Music.
When iTunes installs, it creates files and folders in C:\Users\Userxyz\Music\itunes
So....Because iTunes didn't show any of my music, playlists, apps, etc. and because I had changed where to keep media files,
I selected the "Add Folder to Library" option
iTunes successfully displays all the music from this external drive and left the music files where they were.
But....it also copied all of this music to a folder on my desktop called "Copy of Itunes". Now, I have 3 *itl and "xlm files. One on External Drive J, another in Music\iTunes on Drive C, and a 2nd in Copy of iTunes on the desktop.
Missing from iTunes are my purchases. All apps, purchased and free. Playlists.
I have a folder "Mobile Applications" on the external drive and in Copy of iTunes, but both are empty.
I wonder if I already lost my purchases.
I would also like to keep my files on an external drive because I don't have enough space to keep iTunes on my main drive.
I also use Vista.....
I hope someone can help. This is all very confusing
Jeri

When you say all of your iTunes files were on the external drive, do you mean all, or only the stuff that's inside the red outline below. The most important part of your library is the database file iTunes Library.itl which holds the records of your playlists, ratings and all other data that doesn't get stored in tags.
Typical layout of iTunes folders:
When the media folder is inside the main iTunes folder as shown above then the library is portable, and if the library is relocated to an external drive it will survive a wipe of the internal drive. However most users typically split their library when they find they are running out of room on the internal drive by choosing a new locaton for the media folder and then consolidating.
If this is what you have done, and you don't have a backup of the library files, the iTunes Library.itl file in particicular, then your old library is lost forever. If you do have the files then it may be possible to get the right library file reconnected to the media provided you haven't been moving things around randomly.
You can check each of the .itl files that you have on your computer in turn using the hold-down-shift-when-starting-iTunes method. If one of these has the correct playlists, and the drive letter of the external drive is the same as before, then it should all work.
tt2

When I open iTunes on my new computer using the .itl file, and using the same external drive holding the songs, all of the songs I added to iTunes up to a certain date have broken links, while none of the songs have broken links on the old computer.

I want to open the iTunes library on my new laptop with all the playlists and stuff I built on the old computer. I have all my music on an external drive. I have copied the .itl file from the old computer and opened it on the laptop, and it has all the playlists, but all of the songs that were added to iTunes up to a certain date have broken links. What am I doing wrong?

Moving library files around while leaving the data in the same place usually presents no problems. Moving the data around independently from the library usually breaks things. With Windows machines all you should need to do is make sure that the same drive letter is being used on the new system as with the old. If that is not possible you need to get your library into a portable layout before moving it between systems.
Typical layout of iTunes folders:
When the media folder is inside the main iTunes folder as shown above then the library is portable. Typically with a split library the iTunes Music or iTunes Media folder (everything inside the red outline) is moved to a different drive by choosing a new locaton for it and then consolidating.
To make the library portable again you need to copy the library files and album artwork folder into the parent folder of the media folder so that the nested relationship is recreated. (BTW If your media isn't already inside your designated media folder then you will also need to consolidate the files that are outside of it, before you copy the library files.) You can then use the hold-down-shift-when-starting-iTunes method to open the library file in that parent folder. Once the library has been opened, tested and closed you are most of the way there.
The iTunes window inherits its title from the folder holding the library files so, unless you created a folder called iTunes to hold the media folder, iTunes may now have an unexpected title when you run it. The parent folder can be renamed as iTunes, and the library opened again. Alternatively, if the parent folder is at the root of the drive, or has other data which you wish to leave in place, you can create a new top level folder called iTunes and move the library files, album artwork and media folders into it before opening and testing the library again.
If the library doesn't work after any step simply reverse it by undoing a move or rename or opening the previous set iTunes Library.itl file.
If all has gone well then the library is now portable. Once you've migrated the data to a new system you can copy the library files back to their usual internal location if you find that having them on the external drive affects performance...
tt2

Itunes directories in my music folder??

I’m wondering here, can anyone explain to me what the reason that there are multiple iTunes directories and config files in my music folder? This is a place where I keep my music and there is no facility i can see to have iTunes move its directories/files elsewhere or atleast in its own program directory, and these directories are regenerated if deleted once iTunes is started again.
It seems strange. This is a folder within my profile directories where one would keep their music files and my music folders (grouped my artist then subdirectories for albums). I in no way want to see program data mixed in with my music. This will cause me to back up that program data and have to deal with it again when I go to restore my music from my network storage device back to the local machine in the advent of a failure
Can anyone help me with this issue of poor programming on the part of Apple? I mean is there a setting that I’m not seeing in the preferences that would remove or move these files and folders out of my music directory WHERE I ACTUALLY KEEP MY MUSIC DATA?

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
This is the standard layout of the iTunes library.
The top iTunes folder is normally placed inside your profiles "Music" folder on both Macs & PCs. iTunes has long since morphed into a media player rather than just a music player but until both the Mac & PC operating systems change thier default set of pre-defined user folders to include a media folder then Music is as obvious a place as any to put the library.
There are two main components to the library, your media files (all inside the red outline) & the database files (everything else). An advantage of keeping everything together is that you do in fact backup both the database & the media files when you make your backups. This model is much easier to archive & restore (either in part or as a whole) than the hidden databases, caches & licence files that Windows Media Player uses.
I would heartily recommend that you learn to live with the layout that iTunes want to use, but if you prefer you can create a new library anywhere you want. Just press & hold SHIFT immediately after clicking on the icon to launch iTunes for options. Once you've created a library elsewhere you can disable to options to *Keep iTunes Music/Media folder organised* and *Copy files to iTunes Music/Media folder when adding to library*. You can then maintain your Music folder as you wish and import into iTunes only those items that you want it to know about.
FWIW I have my library in D:\iTunes and redirect Windows Media Player to D:\iTunes\iTunes Media to look for content... I also manually manage the file & folder names because personally I don't like iTunes' habit for clipping these to about 40 characters.
tt2

Itunes 11 design

Why is it called a "column browser" if it's the width of the itunes library? I don't want a compact column; I want a long list!
10.6 was great because it put the column on the left so that information was listed long-ways. I could see much more at once.
Instead, itunes 11 sandwiches info on top.
Clicking Artists gets a list column on the left side, but the layout for the songs are spaced apart with the album artwork next to the songs - why not keep the album viewable in the bottom left!? I spent so much time finding high def album artwork, but now it's only a tiny little picture. There's no way to scale album artwork in the Artist view. I could not be more unhappy with the "update" since there aren't any new features I use, and there isn't an option to change the layout of itunes in the way I want it. Tough cookies??
Honestly, who scrolls through hundreds of album covers?????? Why is that view even an option? It's so gimmicky and tedious. No adult has time to do that.
This to me is just typical Apple b.s.:
Update one product, you have to update all of them.
And for what? The same features but a smoother interface.
Yet, Apple isn't compatible with Apple if the version is older.
All I want is a simple layout for itunes; column browsers that are viewable as long columns instead of layered, sandwiched rows of columns.
I spend good money on Apple products, now why can't I have the option of running the versions I WANT?
If Apple is going to come out with new versions, they should allow users to keep older versions without losing all the options.

Hi,
I do not know what you issue is as song view option in the same as before.
This is how I view my library after selecting show sidebar and column browser. This is how I view my library under 10.7 - no difference.
Jim

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