Management of the location of songs in iTunes Mac

Hello everyone, I just made a fantastic new discovery: when I drag a song into the iTunes window, regardless of the Preferences chosen, the song will go into a "music" folder, rather than surreptitiously going to store nicely in the artist's folder already present in my base folder. Same when I have to search for a song that has lost its link. In addition, impossible to register as before additional information in the tag of the piece: it will not be found in the same piece, but I discover on closer inspection, that are in the same folder: the piece of original plus a copy of the song with the addition I made!!! Morality, I have already evacuated, ONE AT A TIME (sic!) 2 T of duplicates, while pieces continue to be added to this famous 'music' folder.
I've been in a divorce from iTunes for two ages now and of course no one on the hotline seems to know about any of this, so any observations haven't been escalated to the devs, the problems persist, and worse, they're getting worse . How do you do, those like me who have to go through the throes of this program which should be our beloved Apple's best ever?
Thank you for your attention and all the best.


iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 12.6

Posted on Dec 26, 2022 4:11 AM

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Posted on Dec 28, 2022 6:24 AM

Hi David,


This is a user to user support forum. I cannot connect you with anyone at Apple, but I'd like to think I have a deep understanding of iTunes and Music, and how to resolve various issues with them such as reorganizing the media folder, repairing broken links, deduplicating, etc. Because I help here in my free time it is much easier to work by exchange of written posts rather than get involved in real time conversations.


Perhaps if we start by focusing on this issue of songs going into the extra Music folder when you add them to the library first. This should be a fairly easy fix. Check under Music > Preferences > Files to see what the path is to your active media folder, close Music, open that folder in Finder, enable hidden files with Cmd+Shift+. then open .Media Preferences.plist with TextEdit and change the integer value inside from 1 to 0. Save and close the file, then launch Music. New additions to your library should now go to <Media Folder>/<Artist>/<Album> instead of <Media Folder>/Music/<Artist>/<Album>. You can rearrange anything connected to the library by turning the Keep organized option off and then on again. Making this change may potentially fix some of your broken links.


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