Renaming iTunes music folders - will it confuse iTunes?
I've imported from CDs, downloaded music, etc from a variety of sources. I now have over 22000 songs. When I go to my iTunes folders i see that there are sometimes various spellings of the same artist; Sonny and Cher, Sonny & Cher, or K-Fed and K Fed etc.
I would like to combine all of the albums by that artist together. Can I just drag the albums out of one folder and in to the other or will this confuse iTunes?
Alternately, can I "rename" an artist's folder to reflect the correct spelling?
What happens to the albums inside if I have 2 folders with the same name? Will it even let me do this?
Will Itunes then say "original song could not be found" or something similar?
I would prefer to work in the windows file structure view as opposed to changing the names in iTunes since it's easier to see all my folders this way.
I would like to combine all of the albums by that artist together. Can I just drag the albums out of one folder and in to the other or will this confuse iTunes?
Alternately, can I "rename" an artist's folder to reflect the correct spelling?
What happens to the albums inside if I have 2 folders with the same name? Will it even let me do this?
Will Itunes then say "original song could not be found" or something similar?
I would prefer to work in the windows file structure view as opposed to changing the names in iTunes since it's easier to see all my folders this way.
Windows Laptop, Windows XP