Transferred all my music to my new F:\ HD & now iTunes only recognizes some
I finally spent the time to transfer all my music to free up much needed space on my laptop's HD.
I would copy some at a time and then Recycle the original after making sure the copy worked. I messed up and lost some music, and am trying feverishly to replace it now.
I installed iTunes from F:\ making my iTunes music path F:\itunes\itunesmusic. I have double checked this by going to advanced then general and viewing the path.
I have tried to consolidated to no avail. iTunes recognizes music that I directly import from a CD,but not all my MP3 files UNLESS I open the individual songs separately from within their folders (I have wayyyy tomuch to make this an effective strategy). I have the library set to keep my folders organized.
Please Please Help Me!!!!!!!!! This is taking way more time than I had anticipated andis very frustrating to say the least!
I am moderately computer literate but no programmer - so hopefully I can handle your advice!
Thanks muchly!
Gurl
Hey, If the following is true then you should not have difficulties importing your mp3 files: your mp3 files are stored in a folder/in more than one folder on drive f:\. Go into Edit - Prefs, Make sure that the item "Copy Files To iTunes Music Folder When Adding To Library" is not checked - i.e. no green tick. Go to iTunes menu - File - Add Folder To Library and select the folder containing the mp3 music files that you want to import from your f:\ drive, iTunes will now import all of your mp3 files - in that selected folder - into your iTunes library. If you mp3 music files are contained in more than one folder repeat the above import procedure for each of the folders. This may take some time if you have a large collection of music files. Always ensure that your external hard disk is connected before you start iTunes otherwise iTunes will get confused. Also don't forget that any future files that you may place in any existing folder that has already been imported will not be dynamically updated by iTunes. And lastly any mp3 files that are already listed in your current iTunes library will be duplicated if they are also present in a newly imported folder.
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