iTunes Media Folder Not Adding New Songs

Hi turingtest2, and thanks for your help.

The music is playing perfectly well in iTunes. It is all there, visible and playing fine. My many playlists are also functioning fine. I have also just refreshed my Sonos system, which shares my iTunes library - It updated perfectly and the Sonos controller shows/plays my entire up-to-date library.

The issue I have is with backing up the library. With both SyncToy and straightforward copy/paste, the resulting backed-up library is incomplete. And, when I look, the base library is also out of date or at least it seems to be [as per my original question] - The folder I am backing up is C:\Users\admin\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music. The listed artist folders are way out of date and say "empty" when you drill down into them.

The path to iTunes Media under edit>preferences>advanced is C:\Users\admin\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music

The path on the Sonos system to its shared library is C:\Users\admin\Music

I haven't intentionally changed any file/folder/library locations at any point. And no drive letters have changed. But the PC has not been without problems - Who knows what re-setting or re-configuration it may have taken upon itself?

I have both boxes ticked: "copy files to iTunes media folder when adding to library" and "keep iTunes media folder organized."

It seems to me that all my music and playlists are intact and stored somewhere, but it is stored somewhere it shouldn't be, and all new additions to my library are being filed somewhere wrong... Is there some sort of change I can make to move it all to the right place, without losing any music or playlists?

Thanks again for your help,

Geof Ashton

Hi tt2,

Here is the location of a track called Underpuppy on an album called The Life and Times of Phoebus Brumal by an artist called Fila Brazillia: C:\Users\admin\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Music\Fila Brazillia\The Life and Times of Phoebus Brumal\02 Underpuppy.m4a

Do you know what? I think you may have just helped me understand the problem. I looked in My Computer for this location [above] and found, among all the [old] folders of artist names, there is a folder called "music" and, in that folder, are all the missing artists that I have added in the last two years... So there are lots and lots of old files by artist name, plus a single folder, hidden at the same level, containing hundreds of new folders of new artists' names added in the last two years. So I guess the base folder really does contain the whole up-to-date library after all?

Do you still think I should reorganise this?

Cheers, Geof Ashton

Hi again, turingtest2.

Thank you very much. That has worked and, I assume, fixed my problem. Thanks for your help.

Last question: The [newly renamed] iTunes Media folder still has a folder called Music in it plus hundreds of folders named by artist that say "folder empty" when you drill into them. Should I just leave all this alone or tidy it up in some way?

Cheers, and thanks again, Geof