why does itunes media folder location in windows 8 goes to \username\music\music when pointed to the my music folder

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why does itunes media folder location in windows 8 goes to \username\music\music when pointed to the my music folder

I have recently decided to upgrade to windows 8 and with it clean out all the music in my itunes media collection and start fresh.

Before I start to download my purcharsed iCloud music or import my cds I set my media folder location to be "c:\users\username\my music\"

and the below images show the outcome, which seems like its a bug and it annoys me.

so now i have a folder called music inside the my music folder in my users profile, this seems really stupid i hope its a bug that gets fixed

if i set it as the below then all the music artists folder names appear straight under c:\users\username\

Why does the extra \music\ folder get added ?!?!!??? it just makes it messy.

iTunes-OTHER, Windows 8, media folder location of itunes

Posted on Jul 24, 2013 5:53 AM

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turingtest2

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Jul 24, 2013 6:14 AM in response to djc55

Here are typical layouts for the iTunes folders:

Essentially iTunes wants to put its content into <Media Folder>\<Media Kind>\<Subfolders>. See make a split library portable for reasons why you should stick to the default layout for the iTunes folders (media folder inside main iTunes folder), and Getting iTunes & Windows Media Player to play nicely for suggestions on how to set out the library for use by both applications.

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Jul 24, 2013 2:34 PM in response to turingtest2

Thank you for the info but this doesn't really answer my question/issue

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Jul 24, 2013 4:51 PM in response to djc55

If you tell iTunes to use <User>\Music as the iTunes Media folder then it will put Music in an deeper subfolder called <User>\<Music>\<Music> because that is how it is designed to work. My iTunes library lives at D:\iTunes, with the media at D:\iTunes\iTunes Media and the music folder at D:\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music. Withing that music folder I take complete control of the organization and do it differently from iTunes, but having the top-level structure means that it is easy to backup & move my library when I want to. There isn't a bug, iTunes is working as it is supposed to. You can go with the flow or organize your media completely independently of iTunes and then import it from the locations you've chosen, but be warned, iTunes gets confused if you move things around.

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