Organizing my music

I would like to create new folders in my iTunes. I can see how to create playlists, but I would like to have a folder to encompass several playlists. There doesn't seem to be any way to make a new folder in the iTunes source window. Does anyone know how I can do this?

I would upgrade to iTunes 5, but I've read so many horror stories that I think I'll wait until they have the bugs out of it. Is there any way in 4.9 to add a folder?

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Disappointed with IOS7, i had organized my music library as per the Genre and now im unable to hear all the songs of the same genre like in the earlier versions. The options of "all albums" and "all songs" are missing in this version of IOS. Help Please..

Disappointed with IOS7, i had organized my music library as per the Genre and now im unable to hear all the songs of the same genre like in the earlier versions. The options of "all albums" and "all songs" are missing in this version of IOS. Help Please..

It would be nice if you told others the steps you've tried and/or how you used to have your setup.
Anyway have you tried tapping MORE this will then bring you to
the selection-list of Audiobooks, Genres, Compilations & Composers.
Selecting Genres gives you a list of all your music split into genres which was set within the Music downloaded via iTunes or uploaded from CD or which you may have set yourself.
Then you just select the Genre you want:
If certent songs are not correctly gategorised you may need to go into iTunes and reselect via Get-info
>Info>Genre and change it there. That way you should end up with all songs of Jazz or other in 1 place.

HT204406 I have subscribed to match on iTunes and organized my music on my Mac Book. Why does it not appear the same way on my iPad

I would like my music to appear organized in the same way on my iPad as I have done it on my Mac Book. (and on my iPhone as well) Since it is in the cloud, why does it not appear the same way in all devices?

The purpose of iTunes match is to make your music library available to all of your devices anywhere. It will sync Playlists, but no other type of organization you may have made.
If you're having trouble, be sure you are logged into the same Apple ID on all devices but be sure to read this article and pay special attention to associating your devices with an Apple ID. There are important restrictions you should know about.

Itunes and Organizing Media/music

Hi,
i want my itunes media/music to be in c:\users\<myuser>\music
but everytime i add music to my libaray it kepts putting it in c:\users\<myuser>\music\music
why is it creating that extra music folder?
my itunes media folder is set to c:\users\<myuser>\music
i just don't understand whats going on
any help would be greatful

Here are typical layouts for the iTunes folders:
If you have upgraded from version 8 (or earlier) to iTunes 9 (or later) at some point, then your media folder (everything inside the red outline) may still be called iTunes Music instead of iTunes Media (or in your case it is just Music). The extra Music folder inside the media folder is used if you have allowed iTunes to Upgrade to iTunes Media Organization (iTunes 9) or used File > Library > Organize Library > Reorganize files in the folder "<Media Folder>" (iTunes 10). Depending on your choices for Keep iTunes Media folder organized andCopy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library plus a little bug in which one build changed the name of the file storing the choice of layout it is quite easy for some of your files to be organized according to one layout and some the other.
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Relocating and organizing downloaded music into "My Music"

I recently just switched to a mac and I'm having a problem getting Itunes to organize my downloaded music. I have done a search, but haven't found a previous post with my problem. With Itunes on Windows XP, I could download a song into any folder, when I imported the song to Itunes, the song would be "cut" from the download folder and "pasted" into "My Music" and organized by artist.
On my Mac, this is not happening. I go to File>add to library find the song on my HD and press import. The song imports to my itunes song list, however the song remains in the original location. This is very annoying. I like all of my music to be located in "Music" and do not want to have to manually move every song and create folders for each song.
Any help would be welcomed.
+My current itunes settings+
Itunes 8.1.1
Itunes music folder location:
Macintosh HD:Users:ACM:Music:
Keep iTunes music folder organized
Do not copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library

I like all of my music to be located in "Music" and do not want to have to manually move every song and create folders for each song
This is what happens on a Mac too. iTunes organises your Music if you ask it to. If you check "Keep iTunes Music folder organised" and "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" then your music WILL be organised into folders etc.
However, if you want to organise your own Music, uncheck those two Preferences and iTunes will simply create pointers to all your music without creating an unnecessary copy. You will still only have one copy of everything.
The choice is left up to you. That's the big difference between Windows and Mac.

Organizing my music O.o

The music on my ipod nano 5th was organized alphabetically by song title, it recently had a freak out and now all the SMART playlists I have are all organized by artist not song. How do I change it back? In my Itunes on my computer its all fine but it changes on my ipod.
I know most my songs by title not by artist so at first I was okay with it now its annoying D:

haha never seen that before but just looked an naw. I looked on some other forums and am restoring my ipod now to see if it makes a difference. its just weird. the songs are organized by artist and if I ad any new song to the play list on my ipod they show up at the bottom of the list in a new order not mixed with the original songs...
oh well I'll keep trying different things.

Organizing iTunes Music files My Documents/My music/iTunes folder

My iTunes folders are all set up by artist. If a particular CD has many artists, I wound up with lots of folders, many with only one or 2 songs in them.
How can I rearrange the folders so that each folder contains only songs (files) from one particular CD?
Thanks,
David

Albums with multiple different artist are whats called compilation albums/CDs. What you need to do is open iTUnes, and in the main library, hit the "Albums" header so everything in the list is organized by albums. Now you can easily highlight all songs on one album with different artist rightclick, hit "Get Info" and check the box beside "Part of compilation".
When you do this iTUnes will move all the songs into
C://........My Music/iTUnes/iTUnes Music/Compilations/(Album name)/(Artist)

Organizing Your Music

I have thousands of songs. they are all sorted just the way I want them, but, when I add them to my iPod video 80gig player via Itunes they do not keep the same hierarchy as what I have in my computer. This is driving me crazy! I want my music categorized the way it is in my computer. Help me before I give and return this thing to the Apple store.

I did not mean to sound angry or anything....here is the deal, in Windows XP Pro I have a folder, in this folder and hundreds of folders, and in each of them are songs that are organized by artist, then by albums.
When I add them to iTunes I have to create Play Lists, I cannot just drag and drop the entire and keep it in the same organized way. I could however create hundreds of play lists but I was hoping to just dump all the music and the iPod would act like a back up and a juke box I guess. I have since purchased a external drive and have a good back up system. I love my iPod and the people in the Apple store are the best! ....you can return your iPod after you open it. My first one had a defective hard drive and they took it back without issue.
Windows Windows XP Pro

Questions on organizing/sharing music files on 3 PC networked drive

I just added 1Tb network drive to 3 pc home network... I am planning on moving my iTunes music folder from the older, smaller network drive. I exceeded the 160GB size of the old drive when converting all of the WMA losselss files to Apple lossless while maintaining the old WMA files(I still think the Windows Media Player system is superior). With the new addition to our network, I am planning on the 3 pcs sharing music files... (my wife has been using iTunes for a while, I have just recently went over to the dark side)
What is the best way to organize the files??
-How to shuffle all without the folder of Christmas & Holiday music playing.
-Segregate each users individual files.
Any advice or suggestions are appreciated, I know it would save a lot of time and pain instead of the trial and error method.

Thanks, Jason & Mike. This is how I resolved the problem. Turned out the disk with the data was in NTFS format. Neither my eMac nor my wife's Carbon iMac (prehistoric, in other words) was able to read it, on repeated attempts. In process I discovered (to my surprise) that the external hard drive attached to my eMac (a 320 Gig My Book) was formatted in FAT 32 format, and that the PC laptop (Thinkpad) read from it, and wrote to it, without any problem. (Is FAT 32 less than optimal for use with a pre-Intel Mac?). So I just copied the needed files from the NTFS disk to the FAT 32 disk, via the Thinkpad. When I reconnected the FAT 32 drive to the eMac, it turned out that it was easy [with some fiddling] to put the titles of the new music into the iTunes Library, without having to copy the music itself into iTunes. Making playlists does still seem to have to go manually. Sometimes the "New Playlist from Selection" option automatically gives a name (the original name) to the album from which the music came, sometimes it doesn't. Rationale not clear to me. Other problem: often the sequence is jumbled (this is after I added the whole collection of folders containing music to my iTunes Library in one fell swoop). Usually it was possible to correct this by copying track names for albums one album at a time from the external HD (in Columns view, selecting all the tracks in each folder simultaneously) directly into the playlist; the playlist name then always had to be copied or typed in separately. I don't know if I'm missing an easier route. Also, I see that I have version 4.7.1 of iTunes - I'll download a newer version! Don't know whether newer version will affect what I want to do in a positive sense.

Organizing My music into Albums without itunes

All of my albums which is like idk 21? randomly fell apart while i was downloading Styx from limewire.Then onto my itunes when i started to fill out the information and into albums. Randomly All of the albums in my library fell apart!!! even though they had the exact same Info, and yet the albums fell into smaller groups.

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Add iTunes wish-list to Reminders (organized by music, movies, TV shows, books, and apps)

Super Awesome if there was a way to add iTunes wishlist to Reminders. Catorgised lists by music, movies, TV shows, books, and apps and using Siri to add new items and look up songs. Also with a direct link to purchase the item or ask Siri to.
Just a thought

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Organizing My Music By Tracks

I'm having trouble getting my CD's that I import on itunes to stay in order from 1 to however many tracks are on a CD. It will have like five or ten in a row and then another cd from the same artist will be in-between the rest of the albulm. PLEASE HELP SO ANNOYING.
Thanks
Dell Windows XP Pro

Follow this link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/6.0/en/560win.html
It describes how in iTunes to sort your music by different "columns," this should definitely help you.

Organizing classical music with itunes

I am having trouble handling my classical music on itunes. I would like to be able to look up music by style and/or period (for example romantic, or renaissance) and then by composer, and then by instrument (for example oboe) and then by piece.
I listen to all kinds of music and am happy with the method itunes gives me with all but classical. I like to shuffle my music but shuffling classical is disasterous. How can I make sure that the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd movement are always played in correct order and kept together as a separate "song" en toto when I want my ipod to shuffle all music but classical?
I would also like at least two separate artist search lists. Although I don't mind coming across Beatles next to Beach Boys I don't particularly want to come across Beach Boys next to Brahms.
I have been struggling with this on my own for some time and coming up short so I figured to see if there was a better way by coming here. Any help is appreciated.

I am having trouble handling my classical music on itunes. I would like to be able to look up music by style and/or period (for example romantic, or renaissance) and then by composer, and then by instrument (for example oboe) and then by piece.
You could add thet information into the comments area and do a smart playlist, but this is a limitation of the tagging format.
I listen to all kinds of music and am happy with the method itunes gives me with all but classical. I like to shuffle my music but shuffling classical is disasterous. How can I make sure that the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd movement are always played in correct order
Shuffle by nature randomizes tracks. You can exclude tracks from being shuffled but short of importing the pieces as one big track, you cannot bring control to something random.
I would also like at least two separate artist search lists. Although I don't mind coming across Beatles next to Beach Boys I don't particularly want to come across Beach Boys next to Brahms.
Thats the nature of alphabetization. The problem of a second artist search is that it destroys the continuity of searches. That just won't happen.

HT4915 How do I keep iTunes Match from De-Organizing my music? I have spent hours organizing my music ratings, info, and deleting duplicates only to quit iTunes and find out that it reverts back to the original when it starts up and syncs with Match. HELP

It first de-organized hours worth of my time. Then I tried it again with iTunes match off only to find out that once you turn it on it de-organizes it again!! I have iTunes match turned off on all my devices. HELP

Go to Settings > iTunes and App Stores and set the option for "iTunes Match" to OFF. Then do a hard reset by holding down the Power and Home buttons until you see the Apple logo.
FYI, there is no matching from an iOS device.

Organizing iTunes Music Library

Does anyone know how I can get my iTunes music library in alphabetical order?

Now does anyone now how I can Organize the Music Library on my iPod in alphabetical order?
Select the playlist you sorted per above then on the playlist name, rioght click- > Copy to play order then sync the iPod.

Organizing my music

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