Change "Date Added" value?

Scott,

When you move your iTunes library to a new computer, copy the entire iTunes folder. This will retain the same Date Added.

Date Added means the date originally added to the iTunes library. If it happens to be ripped from a CD that you acquired 15 years previously, iTunes has no way to know that.

Do not make this! If you want to make your Mac inconsistent, if you want loosing licences etc. do this. And you wanna do this all the time when adding new tracks? This is a kind of shrewdness but with a portion of half knowledgte in my point of view.

should I decide to go ahead with the laborious remove/change date/re-import plan. Any thoughts?

I know a way to do this, which is pretty simple when I figured it out. Depending on how many you have you can go about it two ways:

If you want to push some songs down the list as "older": Select the songs/Albums you want and drag to desktop or folder on the Desktop, then delete the songs from iTunes. Now in System Preferences, Change the Date and Time pref manually to whatever earlier date you want. Now reimport your Destop music back into iTunes. They will have the date added to whatever you chose. Now reset the Date and time to current.....You're done!

If you want to make songs/albums with a newer date, just drag them out to desktop, delete from itunes, and then reimport.....easy!

Thank you so much! Now I can finally sort my library as I want to!

It is quite simple, iTunes can (or must) lock the ability to change the purchase date on any media that Customers get from the iTunes Store but they certainly have no right to prevent Customers from organizing their own media collection in a way that makes sense for their needs, specially for those (like me) that have a CD collection from way before Apple had iTunes in mind and want to keep the music in the order they were acquired. Any work around oriented to allow audiophiles to organize their media in a way that make sense. regardless of the complexity of the task, is a clear invasion of their privacy and limits creativity, a quality that was in mind of those who got the idea of allow Apple to help.

Respectfully

...for those (like me) that have a CD collection from way before Apple had iTunes in mind and want to keep the music in the order they were acquired. .....

Omancini,

When you move your iTunes library to a new computer, copy the entire iTunes folder. This will retain the same Date Added as well as all other metadata.

Your concern about CDs acquired before iTunes is well off the topic of this thread, but if you have a further question post back.

No, it's not off topic.