Hi Guys and Gals
Not sure if this is the right forum. Im considering using itunes Match to upload of my music for on the move. What i would like to know is this.
I have all my music in subfolders for years and geners and dont want to lose this.
Is there any way of creating subfolders in itunes to copy my music. I want to keep all of my now albums in there relevent folders etc.
Thanks for any advice.
iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi, Windows 7
I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you saying the music is not currently in iTunes? If so, you can keep the folders as they are when adding the music to iTunes and nothing will happen to the organization. In iTunes open Prefs > Advanced and unselect the option to "copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library."
Hi
No what i mean is on my hard drive i have a folder called MP3
Within this folder i have subfolders called 60s, 70s etc and i also have folders which contain the now albums i have so there is a subfolder called Now Albums with additional subfolders called Now 1 now 2 etc etc.
I dont want to lose this format if i use itunes match wo want to know if there is any way of creating a new folder called MP3, then additional subfolders so that i can add my music in without losing the years or album names etc
clubsceneuk2 wrote:
I dont want to lose this format...
You won't. iTunes Match is just a service. It does not modify your ID3 tags or folder structure in any way.
As I posted above unselect the option in iTunes to "copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" and all your folders and files will stay exactly where they are when you add them to iTunes.
Adding new music to iTunes from the iTunes Store or downloading matched tracks will be a different matter, though. Those tracks will be downloaded to whatever the default iTunes Media folder location is for Windows by default.
Hi Michael. Im not sure if you fully understand what im trying to achieve here.
What im after is Itunes Match mirroring my folder list exactly. I dont just want Itunes to give me a full ilst of my music, i want it to give me a directory and within that sub directorys of my music.
If i want to listen to some 80s i want to be able to go to the 80s folder and select tracks from there.
Does this make more sense?
iTunes Match does not work that way. It is a service that runs from iTunes. It scans the iTunes library, identifies any iTunes Store purchaes and "matches" or "uploads" the rest. The only way you interact with iTunes Match is either through iTunes or on an iOS device. The service does not make directories. If you want to listen to "some 80s" then you create a playlist in iTunes that contains the appropriate music and listen to it.
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