Organising iTunes

Ok, sorry if this annoys anyone but im a bit of a neat freak, anyway, i recently upgraded my iTunes to iTunes 7 on my iMac, and it reorganised my files to places i dont want them, for example artists beginning with a number as opposed to a letter, used to be at the start, they are now placed at the end, as are artists whos names begin with symbols, does anybody know how to make iTunes organise it so numbers and symbols come before letters?
Also does anybody know how to make your folders in your music iTunes folder organise so it ignores the "The" for example the Beatles are way down in the T section, but id kinda like it in the B section.
Sorry for being such a neat freak everyone, but if anyone can help me, i will love you forever.
cheers

I'd like to know the same thing. I would like the numbers to come first, the way it was before the update. I have tried finding a way to set it, but haven't found anything.
As far as the iTunes folder you will have to manually move them

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This may seem like a silly question, but bear with me...
I have some spare time at work and with me I have the hard drive that contains my iTunes media. At home is my computer with iTunes installed. I have a lot of double up songs and mislabelled files, etc., that I'd really love to get organised... but I never have time to do it at home. I have the time to do it at work, but I don't know if I mess around with deleting and renaming files directly, whether the changes will be transferrable to my iTunes. I have playlists, etc. that sync with my iPhone and I'd rather not risk wiping those... but I can only assume that making changes within the iTunes media will require me to re-import the entire lot? Is that right? And then I might lose all those playlists, etc.?
I'm sorry if I haven't made this particularly clear... but if someone out there understands what I'm trying to do, Id love some help...
Thanks,
Jess

You could re-link but most people absolutely detest the idea of re-linking more than a file or two. If you rename files iTunes may not automatically recognize them so you may end up having to re-link hundreds of links one by one. It would take a day and quickly get very tedious. There wouldn't be any automated way of doing it. If you delete duplicates in Finder you will also end up with broken liinks but there are ways ot automatically delete broken links. Of course unless you are very, very careful you may end up deleting somethign that wasn't a duplicates and when you blindly go in and delete dead links one or two may be things you didn't want to delete.
In the normal course of things you should end up generating many duplicates, You may wish to review how you use iTunes so as to avoid this in future.

Organising iTunes Directories

Hi
I've recently ripped some old presentations that I had on CD into my iTunes folder.
I wanted to keep these talks out of my general music folders and so was hoping to keep the talks in a second, seperate folder similar to the music one.
Is this even possible? If so, how would I do it?

You can create multiple iTunes libraries and put these files in a new separate library, however you can only have one iTunes library active at a time. If I remember you do this by holding down the Control key when launching iTunes.
Alternatively, you can in iTunes preferences, turn off the option to organise your files automatically, and then iTunes will let you add files from any location but will not copy the files in to its own folders.

Organising itunes by genres and styles

Hi
My iTunes library became through the years a very large database with music.
I have now more than 3000 albums in my collection
And a lot of different genres and styles.
Till now I didn't care about the genre and style.
I had a complete different way of organising them.
I'm starting the realise that I should reorganise everything.
It's gonna be a huge work, I think
Something that looks pretty poor in iTunes, is the classification by genre and style.
Doesn't seem very obvious to me in iTunes.
Cause of the many genres that overlap each other, it looks difficult to organise.
I have many albums that are a mixture of Jazz, funk, afrobeat, afrofunk, world, ...
Also a lot of them, go to electronic, dub, reggae, ...
I had a closer look to discogs.com
Their way of classification looks pretty good to me.
I checked a lot of albums on their site, and it looked close to what I wanted.
But how giving multiple genres and subgenres (styles) to 1 album.
Except giving them in the same tag the different genres and subgenres
But then I will have a lot that starts with jazz
And the result will be a huge list with different genres like
- jazz / funk
- jazz / soul
- jazz / afrobeat
- jazz / afrofunk
- jazz / afrobeat / electro
- jazz / afrobeat / dub
Also it must be very well ordered, and not having
- jazz / afrobeat / funk
- jazz / funk / afrobeat
it's the same genres, but will be shown as different genres in iTunes
Anybody any idea.
Is there also any automatisation possible in this huge upcoming work

There is only one official genre field. However, just because a field is called something doesn't mean you have to put that information into that field. For example I don't use Beats Per Minute but I do have a 3 digit code I use for some tracks that I put into that field and just remember that's what I use BPM for. I put album label information into the Grouping field. You could put a second genre into that if you so wished. You still won't be able to list by genre and sub genre though. You're limited to what is offered. You can make suggestions to Apple to change iTunes to add more genre fields but this may go again some sort of tagging standard, and frankly I don't see a lot of people here complaining about it so I don't think it will be put high on their list.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
Oh, I guess if you're a genius at Applescripting you could write a script ot parse the genres and subgenres out of the genre field and create a manually ordered playlist based upon that.

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Re-organising iTunes library.

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ive been doing loads of deleting from my itunes library and i now notice i have 62GB. my iTunes folder in users>myname>music says 245GB.
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ive been doing loads of deleting from my itunes library and i now notice i have 62GB. my iTunes folder in users>myname>music says 245GB.
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How do I organise iTunes purchases/content after moving abroad? Please help...

Please can someone advise in simple terms, I am so confused!
I have recently moved with my young family from the UK to the USA. We are hoping this will be a permanent move, but this is yet to be confirmed. We will be visiting the uk hopefully every year and no doubt take the phones and iPads with us. Between us we have:
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I've just started to look at changing the iTunes Store location/credit card from the UK to the USA. I went to an apple shop to help me do this to make sure I was going about it the right way, I even purchased frozen movie from iTunes Store whilst I was in the apple store, to check it worked. It did, but on the device I updated - ipad 2 - I can no longer see the movies or music that were there before. I've refrained from changing any other devices as yet. The apps all seem to be there however. (I understand that some of these apps may not get updates if I don't change to the USA iTunes Store, since they were obtained in the uk).
I basically need to understand what options I have in terms of easily being able to access all content (whether converted or downloaded content) ideally via homesharing, as the kids are used to that.
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You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
That is sometimes refured of redownloading from iCloud.
If the media is not current available from iTunes/APp store yo can't rdownload it. In the USA, ringtones and audio books are not redownloadable.
For complete list see:
iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match Availability

Organising itunes folders

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paul harland wrote:
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Paul, The "Keep..." feature only operates on files that are in the iTunes Media folder. So, any files you had outside that folder stayed where they were.
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Yes, that is definitely the most hassle-free way to maintain your iTunes library. You can do a one-time run of the Consolidate Library command (read details in Help before you run it) to get it that way, and then keep it that way going forward.
Having all your stuff in the iTunes Media folder greatly simplifies both backup and moving.

Organising iTunes U collection?

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There would seem to be a lot of overlap between the behaviour of podcasts and iTunes U. Podcasts subscriptions may split after a change in the feed URL. I assume the same thing has happended with your iTunes U collection.
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Again, if I recall correctly, the order is determined by the ID, but if you need/want to modify the Release Date then in MP3Tag/Extended Tags it corresponds to RELEASETIME in the format yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ, e.g. 2008-02-20T09:10:52Z
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Organising iTunes library

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Organising iTunes on D: drive

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I moved iTunes to the D: partition on my computer last year using excellent edvice from this discussion. I'm currently "tidying up" my computer and have realised that while all of my music is now on D: and lots of other iTunes bits and pieces too, there are still some folders and files on C: These are:
Folder - Album Artwork
Folder - iPod games (duplicated in D:)
Folder - iTunes media
Folder - Mobile applications
iTunes database files - Library extras, Library genius, Library
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I have a 5th Generation iPod 30GB Video (my seventh) and have a problem connecting to iTunes. My iPod is playing okay but when I try to connect to iTunes on my laptop the display shows "Do not disconnect" but iTunes does not recongize it.
I stop the USB connection and disconnect the iPod from my laptop and have to reset to get it back to operation.
I followed some instructions on this forum that advised to reset the iPod, put it in Disk Mode and then connect it to the laptop. iTunes still does not recognize it and now I have the iPod in disk mode with a "Do not disconnect" flashing on my iPod display.
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I’m a big fan of the iPod but what I don’t like is Apple not being very forthcoming about how to move music from the iPod back to the PC. They’re quick enough to tell you how to move the music from your PC to your iPod but when you want to do the opposite, Apple clams up tight.
Their reasoning is probably that the only reason you’d want to take your music off the iPod is to copy it and illegally distribute it. But that is really an insult to the music buyer. There are plenty of legitimate reasons why you would want to move your music from the iPod back to the PC. For a start, what if your hard-drive crashed and the only copies of the music were on your iPod? Or you accidentally deleted a song from your hard-drive and you wanted it back, without having to buy another copy?
It has taken me ages to work out how to get the music off the iPod and onto the computer but I have finally got it. This is how to do it on a Windows PC. Since I don’t have a Mac, I can’t help there.
The easy five-step guide to moving your music from your iPod to your PC
1. In Windows Explorer, go to Tools > Folder Options > View. In the Advanced Settings list, under Hidden files and folders, check the radio button for “Show hidden files and folders”. Then click OK. You’ll get a Windows security warning but it’s safe enough to disregard it as we will only be disabling this function for a short while.
2. Plug in your iPod. In Windows Explorer, a folder will now appear with the name of your iPod.
Double-click on that. Go to the sub-folders “iPod_Control” and then “music”. You’ll find your music there randomly scattered across multiple folders and with scrambled file names. But don’t worry, the ID3 tags are still fully intact and we are now going to “unscramble” the files.
3. But first copy all the music from those iPod folders into a new folder on your hard-drive. Move all the songs into one single folder and discard all the folders that your iPod made. By the end, you should have one folder in your hard-drive with all the scrambled files together.
4. Open up iTunes and do the following : Go to Edit > Preferences. Under the Advanced tab, under the General “sub-tab”, select the local folder where you have copied the music from your iPod (by clicking Change…).
Check the box “Keep iTunes Music folder organized” and click OK. Also make sure you have wiped all previous music from iTunes so your playlists are blank.
5. In iTunes, click “File” then “add folder to library”. Select the folder where all your copied music is. iTunes will now re-import all your music back into the playlists. But more importantly, because you have previously clicked “Keep iTunes Music Folder organised”, iTunes will now start renaming and organising your songs into their correct names, albums and folders. This may take a while depending on how many songs you have in your iTunes library.
There you have it. Oh and don’t forget to go back into Windows Explorer, and to Tools > Folder Options > View. Reverse what you did so the hidden files remain hidden again. You may also want to de-select “Keep iTunes Music Folder organised” if you don’t normally use that option.
You may want to also take this opportunity (before doing the above) to wipe your iPod and revert it back to the factory settings also a suggestion; defrag your iPod (although I think that is potentially rife with problems). Then afterwards, just use iTunes to move your music from your PC back to your iPod.
Reverting it back to factory settings is good for getting rid of any crap that has built up inside the iPod and making it run faster. After all, the iPod is basically a hard-drive and like PC hard-drives, an iPod can do with a purge once in a while to give it its speed back.

How to change the "home" computer for a iPod touch 3G (iOS 4.2.1) and an iPad 2(iOS5)? Music library has been already moved to iTunes on the new computer.

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3. Why sin't my iTouch 3G upgrading- it's stuck on iOS4.2.1 but iTunes doesn't show any updates- even with chck updates button iTunes show that it is a current version.
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ITunes wont recognise Audio CD Track format files (No answer in Archive)

I have a 60GB iPod. Have downloaded the latest iTunes and iPod drives. I usually copy all songs on a spare removable mass storage disk drive, and then add the entire folder made up of hundreds and hundreds of songs.
Now. All songs with MPEG format, and the ones that already have names somewhat, as long as it is not named with Track, do get recognized and get applied in iPod. But no songs named Track and a serial number, that is in Audio CD Track format do. They get instantly copied, as they are 1KB each, both in CD and where they are copied. But nothing more than that happens. It wont be played in Windows Media Player neither. I renamed it from Track to anything else, thinking perhaps in an attempt to keep files organised iTunes deliberatly doesnt recognizes them, but that didnt worked also. The songs can be played from the CD, but arent recognized when they are copied on a disk.
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VMT,
I'm not an expert but will try to help you. From this article I found audible files cannot be burned on MP3 format (at least that's what I think it's saying).
Check it out:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86113
Here's how to make a high quality audio CD:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60784
Also what format to choose for burning:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61342
I hope this helps you. If not post here and let me know.
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