I recently upgraded itunes from an older version and everything seems to be working fine, except for the fact that I have a LOT of m3u playlists in older hard drives, and when I add/refresh those folders to my library, they instantly become Playlists on my Itunes. It's a bit frustrating having to delete 100+ random playlists every time I upgrade my library. Is there a way I can prevent this?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Don't select a folder with an m3u playlist in it.
"Don't select a folder with an m3u playlist in it."
Is that realy your answer ???? you gotta be kidding me ......
When you add a folder to iTunes, iTunes will add the contents.
But you don't want to add the contents of the folder. You only want to add some of the contents of that folder.
Sorry, the issue here is that before 10.4 this didnt happend, so if now itunes wanna handle things in a different way, it will be nice to have a choice for us to dedcide if we wanna go for it or not.
Just picture this, i have a 750 gig HD with my entire collectioin of music, i just got a new MacBook and wanna add my "music" folder to the library ..... is there any way to accomplish that without having itunes creating auto/playlist of the folders with .m3u files ?
Ok, what I believe is happening is ripped CD's are creating their own playlist for media players in their ripped folders.
On my PC what I did is right clicked the start menu, clicked "explore" and found the folder all of my songs and folders were in. Then I searched (upper right corner says "search") within the folder for "m3u", just because the playlist does not say ".m3u" at the end of it the search will still locate the files. I then shift-deleted all the files, click the first file hold shift and click the last file, right click and delete. Then went back to iTunes and added all my songs.
I know you are on Mac but it isn't much of a difference, same concept. Locate main music folder and search for all the "m3u" files.
Also make sure you DO NOT delete the playlist that you WANT to keep if they are all in the same location. You can prevent this by NOT doing an overall search for "m3u" files.
Sorry if this is overly detailed, but I know some people are just not so tech savy. But I hope this helps everyone!
Scott
Use Doug's MusicFolderFilesNotAdded2 script to add new music instead of adding your entire music folder over and over again via the iTunes menus.
tt2
This is the iTunes for Windows forum. Your post is spammy and irrelevant.
"This is the iTunes for Windows forum."
No, it is not. It is the iTunes for Mac fiporum.
"Your post is spammy and irrelevant."
His post is neither of those.
Plese pay attention before making yourself look foolish...
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My apologies - I confused this thread with another one I was following on the same issue.
No worries. I have done the same.
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