Want music to be organised in folder struct

Is there no way I can browse tracks in a "normal" way on the player. I want to navigate the folder structure I load onto the player rather than having to go through the folder which are based on tag information.
I like to use a nested tree structure to organise my music and find the Zen approach produces massi've flat lists to scroll through. Not to mention the way it messes up DJ compilation albums...

Well there are millions of digital audio player users who would disagree with you, as id3 tags allow you to keep your music organized by artist, album, genre, year, comments if you wish, etc. File names are Ok for explorer like file copying but when you are on the go with your player drilling down through your music with a specific tag makes every thing so much easier and simpler.
Mind you the tracks need to be properly tagged to begin with ...
If you have some specific 'folders' you would like to use, why not change the tags?
ie for genre, use FavAcoustic, FavVocals, etc. Should ultimately work the same way.
jake

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Drag the folder into the library in the open iTunes program window.
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How can I move all my music files in an specific folder to another

Hi
I am a iTunes for Windows user and I adore that program. From the beginning I have made my Library putting manually all my new music files in "D:\Mis Documentos\Mi Musica" folder, and then from here I add it to my iTunes Library.
The problem I have now is that I want to change my folder destination for example to "D:\Mis Documentos\Mi Música\iTunes\iTunes Music\" but the only way that I now is moving all files to that new folder and then creating a new ibrary but in that way I will lose all my counters and other thongs in the old ITL file. Also I could consolidate the library changing the folder but I don't like the way of iTunes to put the files with folders with artist and album I prefer to have all the music files in the same folder with any folder inside.
If anyone can tell me how can I do this or if there is any script o plugin for Windows to administrate this kind of moving, please answer me.
Thanks

Don't move files manually! That indeed causes iTunes to lose track. Use the command Advanced > Consolidate Library. Before you begin, read up on Consoidate in the Help file so you understand what it does.
When you are done consolidating, you can delete the extras if you wish.

I have Windows 7, 64 bit, and I am using iTunes 11.0.1.12. I have been all through the threads and internet..how do I delete songs from my iTunes and hard drive at the same time? I have my music in the correct iTunes folder. Nothing works.

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iTunes 11.0.1.12
I have my music in the correct iTunes folder
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Tarantulaman wrote:
i do, but like i said it fell once and since then it hasn't been able to connect to my laptop. it acts like nothing's connected. i believe if i call the company the HDD is from they'll be able to transfer it to a new one but who knows how much they'd charge. looks like i have no choice now.
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Hey samanthaluca,
Sounds like you want to move your music library to a new computer. I'd follow the steps in this article from the begining to make sure the import goes smoothly:
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Cheers,
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NTG,
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HT4914 I want to transfer my entire iTunes "folder" from a newer iMac 3.06 GHz Core 2 machine running iTunes 10.7 to an older iMac running OSx 10.5.8. How best to do this and keep all my data, tags and covers in tact?

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Firstly, time to get rid of the 2 x 512MB FBDIMMs in there, they add more heat and use more watts then they add to the system. If you need more, and 4 or 8 DIMMs is ideal, Amazon has 2x2GB sets $22 - about 1/50th what I paid for 1GB new.
Buy a 250GB Samsung EVO SSD $129
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A sled adapter for the SSD from Icy Dock $14 Amazon.com
7-8 years overdue for new system drive! amazed it lasted this long. An SSD plus some WD Black 2TB drives or larger should do the trick.
you can also put the SSD in the lower optical drive bay and use one of the two ODD "spare" SATA ports for the SSD - an SSD is the best way to improve the performance of our old Mac Pro 2006-7 models.
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Ive changed my hard drive on my pc tower does that mean my iphone 5 is not synced anymore so if i want to add a new pictures folder will it erase my other pictures?

ive changed my hard drive on my pc tower does that mean my iphone 5 is not synced anymore so if i want to add a new pictures folder will it erase my other pictures?

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Two issues. The first one is that when I upload some music cd's into my itunes library, itunes wants to place the songs in a compilations folder. Sometimes this occurs even with a 2 or 3 cd set. One CD will be filed under the artists name and the disc 2 may be filed in the compilations folder and listed by the name of the cd and not the artist.
2nd issue is that sometimes cd's are similiar, but with different artists such as 20th century Hits of Neil Young. The CD is filed in the compilations folder. Than I upload the 20th century Hits of Tanya Tucker and the songs go into the same folder with Neil Young. The don't even mix as one is county and the other is rock.
I have moved these CD's out of the compilations folder and moved them in with the other cd's by the same artist, but Itunes keeps moving them back into the compilations folder.
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Generally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix things.
For compilations that aren't, select all tracks, Get Info, and on the option tab set Part of a Compilation to No. If it already says No tick the box alongside, then click OK.
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
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Want iTune's to pull my music library from Time Capsule Folder

Hi everyone. I am having a bit of a dilemma, I recently purchased a 1TB Time Capsule and want to move all of my music there. All of my music is currently stored in the default location.
This is what I have done.
Copied all of my music to Time Capsule;
Deleted all of my songs/albums from iTunes;
In iTunes settings, pointed to Time Capsule share;
Close iTunes; then reopen & nothing appears.
How do I resolve this issue?
Thanks.

When you said "Deleted all of my songs/albums from iTunes" what and how exactly did you delete from itunes? Do you still have your intact itunes folder in the default location on your computer? This would be the itunes folder which contains the itunes library file, the itunes library.xml file, and your itunes music folder (which contains all of your actual music).

ITunes 7.1 has changed how my music files are organised - why?

My preference is to store all the music on my PC underneath iTunes, thus:
My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\{artist}\{album}
I do not purchase music from the iTunes store (there hasn't been one in my country until very recently) but I do import CDs from my own collection, and also mp3 files which I obtain (legally) from other sources such as emusic.
I have had the "keep iTunes music folder organised" and "copy files to iTunes music folder" preferences checked. To avoid duplication, when I have new tracks to add to my library I move them into a 'New Imports' folder inside 'iTunes Music' and then invoke "File > Add Folder to Library" in iTunes.
Id tags in these mp3 files are not always consistent w.r.t. artist names, so I often have to select a few tracks, and edit the info so that the artist/album names are standard. When I do this the files are physically moved into the correct folder (and so I have one "Beethoven, Ludwig van" folder, rather than the dozen or so variations on that name which have been imported, and the other now-empty folders have been deleted).
So far so good - up until the latest iTunes upgrade, that is.
It appears that this version has changed the way iTunes operates, and it now uses the "Album Artist" field in preference to the "Artist" field. Actually that can't be strictly true, there must be other factors at work too: this afternoon I imported an album with 33 tracks; the album artist was empty while the artist was spelt in two different ways. I selected all the tracks in iTunes-Music and used "Get Info" to give all 33 tracks the same artist; the result moved 32 tracks into one folder (named as "artist") and left track 23 in its original folder. I then selected track 23 alone and checked the artist and album artist fields, and the result moved the other 32 tracks into the same folder as track 23 (named as "album artist").
What's going on? A "what's new in iTunes 7.1" document would probably be useful but if Apple have released one I can't find it.
Cheers
T

iTunes keeps no memory of the previous folders things were in so no obvious way to reverse the change. iTunes shouldn't move your files about if that option isn't ticked except if you use the option File > Library > Organize Library > Rearrange files in the folder "iTunes Media" (or you "consolidated", in which case the originals would still be in place). If it's not that then I've no idea why it did what it did. Ideally you would have a backup to recover from such a situation.
If your files are all correctly tagged with their respective genres so that it is easy to identify "audiobooks", "teaching", "study" etc. within iTunes then you could modify my script ConsolidateByMoving to move selected files to precisely where you want them.
tt2

Purchased Music not going into that folder

Hi.....this may not be the correct place to post this.......anyway.....prior to iTunes 5, whenever I purchased songs from the Music store, all songs downloaded straight into the Purchased Music folder....now, with iTunes 5, they don't go into the Purchased Music folder, songs just end up in the library.....anyone experiencing this? I just like to keep all of the purchased music in that folder......I just drag them into the pm folder, but before iTunes 5 it was automatic and now it's not....also...the Purchased Music folder used to be green and placed just below the "Music Store"...now it is blue like a regular playlist and is placed alphabetically down with the "P's"......this all occurred after upgrading to iTunes 5.........thanks for any info on solving this.......

Dana:
As you can tell if you read through this forum, v5 is not without its little quirks.
To restore your Purchased Music playlist, go to iTunes preferences and select the Store pane. Then switch on the "Buy Using Shopping Cart".
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