My iTunes preferences/media folder location keeps going to default

Great suggestion.

i think a user has to manually update, but maybe I set it to not do auto-updates. I'll definitely check it out.

Thanks!!!

Hi,

I'm just noodling you to see if you could review the last couple of posts I did. As always, it's very much appreciated.

THANKS!

So do I first change the sort order of a column in iTunes and then right-click Copy to Play Order?

I'll test this in the morning and report back. Thanks so much!!

Adding to that, perhaps it is the CustomRenamer script where some metadata was lost?

Not that we can do anything about it, but I just mention because maybe it wasn't the E/I script?

Totally fine. We are going out of town tomorrow to visit our daughter for her birthday so I won't be back until late Sunday afternoon. I do appreciate the heads up.

Thanks!

A quick update, I am still seeing some ALAC files missing metadata but does seem quite heavily towards the MP3 comments above.

I looked at the file in Explorer and see this:

I think the script might have put that there as it was sorted okay before I ran it. Can you check the script for that?

That's what I thought but did want to confirm. THANKS SO MUCH for the quick reply!

Be well. CHEERS!

I noticed on the XML file that some songs aren't underlined:

Here's one that's not all underlined:

Most are, but many aren't. I'm wondering if this has any impact on the XML in any way? Maybe it loses some metadata or something? Might not matter at all but I just happened to notice it.

THANKS!!

turingtest2 wrote:

Hi Bill,

As noted elsewhere there appears to a be a bug (in several recent builds) that prevents the media folder preference being correctly saved for some users. If you can arrange to have the library database at <somepath>\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl and the media folder at <somepath>\iTunes\iTunes Media1. then this bug should not be an issue.

This may be where I'm making the misstep. When I created this second library called "Volume1", iTunes created the XML/ITL and those files it creates to the C:\Users\Bill\Music\iTunes Volume1 folder.

The Volume1 music resides on the NAS (after I run CustomRenamer and put them in that location: \\volume1\music" so now the music is on the NAS but the ITL is on the C drive. Once I finish running CR script (which I'm almost done doing), I will copy the XML file to the NAS (in the appropriate folder). I'm not sure how I would ask iTunes to put the database into a file on the NAS unless I just move what's on the C: drive per above and put it on the NAS. Is that what I should do?

What build of iTunes are you currently running?

I'm still on 10.7.0.21

. Where is the iTunes Library.itl file for the library?

C:\Users\Bill\Music\iTunes Volume1

. What is the media folder path that you want to use?

\\volume1\music1

NOTE: I just noticed something that might force me to redo everything I've been doing in the past week or so. When you showed me how to create the Volume1 thing in the regedit file, I did \\volume1 (two backslashes in front of volume1). When I run the CR script, I have it set to what shows above (\\volume1\music1). But I just noticed a couple of things:

1. In iTunes, it shows the songs with the two backslashes in front.
2. But in Plex, it shows only one backslash - and it is a forward backslash (does that matter?). (Now, it could be that it's because I've not added the songs to Plex yet and it's reading it from the mapped Y drive still?)

And will it make a difference in Plex as it relates to the XML file and trying to get Plex to see the playlists, if Plex sees the songs with a forward backslash versus two backwards backslashes?

Here's a song in Plex right now, reading off the Y mapped drive

/volume1/music/MUSIC/Stevie Wonder/Innervisions/Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground.m4a

See Make a split library portable - Apple Community for general background on the layout of the library.

tt2

Wow, I hope this isn't going to be an issue. I could add a song from the new \\volume1 NAS location into Plex to see how it reads my new location but I'm worried it could muck things up when I add the new library.

Thoughts?

Hi again,

I went over our notes on how to create this Volume in Windows. I opened the file in Notepad again and see that there aren't any backslashes.

What's interesting again is there are no backslashes or forward slashes in that notepad system32 file you had me edit. You did tell me to type \\volume1 into the Windows header when setting the media folder location. Could it work just as well if I typed /volume1?

In iTunes, when I browse to the media folder location, you had me type in \\volume1. It then brings up the NAS and I browse to the Music folder. (You might recall under previous input that I had said that iTunes won't let me save it just as the \\volume1. It forces me to choose a folder before I can save it and then it updates the library.

So at this point, since what's in Plex looks like it's not going to jive with this \\volume1\music - because it has /volume1/, I'm not quite sure what to do? Remember per above that now my songs in iTunes show this \\volume1\music (Stevie Wonder example above).

I don't know how Windows/iTunes and Plex will need to be, or will work (or not) with this setup.

Please let me know what you think I should do....

Thanks!