Sort iTunes folder by album
I have a lot of music in an iTunes folder on a backup drive. I want to be able to sometimes take some of it and replace the existing music on my iPod. iTunes, however, has organized the music on the backup drive by artist. This is fine for most albums, but for some albums it just creates a mess. For instance, to load a Christmas album where each track is by a different artist, I would have to remember each artist’s name, and use that information to find and load each individual track separately. (This is an especially huge problem for classical albums,where different tracks commonly feature different artists.) Does anyone know a way to, maybe, organize the whole iTunes folder by album instead? Or shareware that does this? It would completely solve the problem.
I believe that for future albums I can save them as compilations and they will sort more usefully. But what’s the solution for albums that iTunes has already saved?
Sorry if this is an old topic.
ahhh, that must be it!
i see that folder but don't know how stuff got in there.
how do i mark music to go there?
or do i have to drag it manually?
sorry--i'm a little lost
thank u!
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