Media managment when changing metadata

I've been using iTunes to manage my media library (Using Windows 7) but have realized that for many cases (about 1000 songs) iTunes hasn't changed capitalization of file names or paths where the metadata has been changed within iTunes - This is causing me a big problem (trying to copy my library to case-sensitive operating system)

Is there a way to have iTunes automatically fix either it's library or the file names/paths so that they are case-sensitive/correct? (As it's over a 1000 songs this would obviously take a long time manually!)

Thanks very much for any help

Dell Studio XPS 16, Windows 7

Posted on Jun 6, 2010 11:46 AM

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dan9 Author

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Jun 7, 2010 7:28 AM in response to turingtest2

That is incredible and seems to do exactly what I was hoping for! Thank you so much! The only thing is it asks for user confirmation before each individual file change - could you possibly set it so that it runs through and updates my library automatically rather than confirming each song?

Thanks again!

turingtest2

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Jun 7, 2010 8:28 AM in response to dan9

I'm no longer in front of my computer, but I don't think I put in any file by file confirmations, although I suppose I could have left in one of the debugging messages. Does the confirmation box have the title *Check File Case* or is it Windows User Access Control? I tend to disable it when working with Windows Vista/7 as I find it so annoying.

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dan9 Author

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Jun 7, 2010 8:35 AM in response to turingtest2

The first box has a check file case title saying 'About to check the location of x tracks - ok to continue?. Then comes a series of boxes that look the same but don't have a title showing you the file path of the song it's working on and what it's being changed to but you have to press ok for each one before it moves onto the next one. After that you get the summary with has the title again.

It seemed like it was part of the script.

turingtest2

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Jun 7, 2010 8:45 AM in response to dan9

Got it. Open the script with Notepad. There's a line that reads

MsgBox path & nl & location

Just add a single quote to the start of this line to disable it.

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turingtest2

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Jun 7, 2010 3:15 PM in response to turingtest2

I've now posted a corrected version of CheckFileCase to my website. I was in a bit of a rush earlier...

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turingtest2

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Jun 7, 2010 4:53 PM in response to turingtest2

Updated to ignore iTunes LP & Extras files which would otherwise create an error.

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dan9 Author

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Jun 8, 2010 3:55 AM in response to turingtest2

Thanks a lot! I really appreciate your help here!

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Media managment when changing metadata