Q: How get all my music stored locally
I tried to burn an MP3 CD of a playlist and was told that some of the songs (20 of them!) could not be burned to it. The most frequent complaint was that they were on the cloud instead of my hard drive. But surely most of them ARE on my hard drive. Many were bought from iTunes and downloaded, and many others were copied from friends onto my hard drive.I drug some or all of them into the iTunes directory, and I believe I drug some or all from there into the Playlist.
Could the problem be that I signed up for iTunes 'Match' service? I was told by a Tech at the time something to the effect that if a song exists on iTunes it will be taken from there when (what? when was it playing a playlist? I forgot what he said exactly).
Should I 'De-authorize' the computer that I build my playlists from?
What should I do?
Thanks.
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Sep 25, 2016 9:42 AM
As to the iTunes directory structure built on Albums and Artists, is there really no way to get around it? The option to organize one's library does not seem to help. I just don't think in terms of Albums and Artists. But even when I choose the organization I find useful (either songs or genres) I'm still stuck with the same non-intuitive (at least for me) directory structure.
The "organize" capability in iTunes works according to the iTunes standard of Artist/Album. if you want some other structure, it will have to be done manually, which most users find not to be worth the trouble.
I am at least able to find where each song file resides by exporting the playlist to a text file, loading that to Excel, and looking in the rightmost column to see the URL to each file.
It can be done way more easily! Right-click the track in iTunes and choose Show in Explorer (or on a Mac, show in Finder). It will take you right to the file.
That's apparently the only way I could find out, for each song, whether it's AAC or MP3.
Just put your library in Songs view, and enable the column for Kind. That will display the audio format (MP3, AAC, etc.)
Unfortunately, when I would select a song and click File > Convert, no MP3 option is presented, even for the m4a files. The only choices available are 'Convert for ipod, ipad, or iphone, fix ID3 tags, and Create AAC version - and those are the only choices available regardless of whether I'm positioned on an m4a file (which is already AAC, is it not?) or an MP3 file. 'Convert to MP3' appears nowhere.
Peyton
Where you see "Create XYZ version" the XYZ is whatever you have in your Import Settings. Just go there and change it to MP3.
Posted on Sep 27, 2016 4:10 PM