Music sub-folder instead of iTunes Media folder?

staigl wrote:

Or am I looking at the preferred hierarchy incorrectly?

Yes.

Music should end up in the iTunes Media folder, not in this Music sub-folder, right?

No.

Is there some reason you think music should not go into a Music subfolder?

/iTunes/iTunes media/ should have subfolders of;

• Audiobooks
• Automatically add to iTunes
• Mobile Applications
• Movies
• Music
• Podcasts
• TV Shows

and maybe a few others.

FYI: You should NOT be moving anything around inside the iTunes folder else iTunes could lose it.

let iTunes handle everything inside the iTunes folder.

My problem is that it is **iTunes** that has moved 98% of my artist folders from my Music folder inside my iTunes Media folder FROM the Music folder to the iTunes Media folder.

So now the vast majority of my artists are at the same level as the TV Shows, Movies, Applications, etc. folders.

I did have an issue with my external media drive and I renamed the iTunes folder to iTunes Media to prevent the stupid mistake I made from happening again [don't ask...] and when I told iTunes in the Preference pane to use this new folder name for my iTunes content, it rebuilt the Library as it should and then moved most of the artist folders OUT of the Music folder. I watched it as it was happening.

Even before the folder name change, new music was also put in the same place, outside of the Music folder.

Any idea why this is happening? All my Preferences are to keep all content organized and what not. And, it's only the artist folders. TV shows are still safely tucked away in their correct folder, even when I add new files.

And, the music still plays just fine so the Library path to the media file is fine. It even self corrects when I move all the artist folders into the Music folder. I had everything in there, then changed the main folder name and that's when iTunes moved everything back out.

I was not amused as many of the remaining folders are for the artists that are also outside the Music folder, which is also rather odd, so I have to move many individual album folders or even song files to get everything where it should be.

Any thoughts on how to keep this from happening, or to even get iTunes to put all these folders back where they belong would be most appreciated.