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I thought I lost all my songs until I discovered itunes was pointing to itunes media and my songs were in itunes music.
Am I correct to assume all new music will be saved in itunes media?
If so, can I move my music folders from itunes music to itunes media? I would rather have it all in one place now that itunes uses itunes media.
Thanks,
Art
iPod touch, Windows 7
Hi Art, what folders or media content do you have inside iTunes Media now?
A while back iTunes switched to using "iTunes Media" as the name for the media folder instead of iTunes Music. Existing libraries were left unchanged, but normally if you rename the current media folder as iTunes Media (and it is inside the iTunes library folder) iTunes corrects all the links to media automatically. My guess is that something triggered the creation of an iTunes Media folder and the library became confused.
The following ought to fix things:
Stop if things stop working (they shouldn't) and rewind the last step you made. Came back here with the details.
tt2
Hi Art, what folders or media content do you have inside iTunes Media now?
A while back iTunes switched to using "iTunes Media" as the name for the media folder instead of iTunes Music. Existing libraries were left unchanged, but normally if you rename the current media folder as iTunes Media (and it is inside the iTunes library folder) iTunes corrects all the links to media automatically. My guess is that something triggered the creation of an iTunes Media folder and the library became confused.
The following ought to fix things:
Stop if things stop working (they shouldn't) and rewind the last step you made. Came back here with the details.
tt2
itunes media has the following files:
Automatically add to itunes
Downloads
Music
Podcasts
They are not all empty. Podcasts have my podcasts. Music has music added because I started rebuilding my music files but realized something was not right and looked for my music and found it in itunes music.
I did run reorganize files in the folder itunes media. But now the music is in itunes music and itunes points to itunes media.
My thought was to move all the music in itunes music to itunes media and then I can delete itunes music.
Am I right? Is that what Organize library|consolidate files does? I do not want to lose this music but I do want it in one place.
Thanks
Don't move things by hand. With a few minor exceptions that just gets iTunes all confused.
If you afford the space to temporarily duplicate your iTunes Music folder then you could consolidate your library (creates copies of files outside the iTunes Media folder inside the iTunes Media, connects iTunes to the new copy, and leaves you to do the housework) to the iTunes Media folder, then delete the old iTunes Music folder.
If you don't have the room to do that then my previous set of steps should achieve the same ends with fewer temporary duplicates, or I have a script called ConsolidateByMoving (guess what it does 😉).
tt2
itunes media vs itunes music
