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Q: Why Does Itunes Store Songs In Multiple Places...

Okay, I've got a question about why on my laptop Itunes stores songs in places other than where I'd like to store them.  I'm using a PC with Windows 10, running Itunes12.4.1.6.  I had cause to get into the Windows Explorer and Itunes as I had a really stubborn song that wouldn't take the edits I was making to its tag, it would be with its album on my laptop but when I tried to put it over to my phone - an Android - it refused to join the album.  It's weird because it's attached to its album in the laptop but not in the phone and it refuses to do so.

 

But I digress.  I've got an external hard drive with Itunes installed on it called the F Drive.  It's got a big tree of folders with all my artists, each with a subfolder for each album containing each song for that album.  However I also noticed that my C Drive on the laptop itself has some Itunes files and when I looked at those I found a group of songs, not mean maybe a dozen.  When I deleted them off the C Drive suddenly Itunes couldn't find those songs anymore.  I pointed Itunes to where those songs were on the F Drive and it put a copy on the C Drive again without me knowing it until I went and looked.

 

So my question is why does Itunes put only select songs in more than one spot?  I mean I've got a huge hard drive so it's not like I'm wanting for space, but I am big on organization.  I'd like all of them in one spot not two.  How can I get them all into one spot that Itunes will recognize and play out of without making itself a copy of select songs?

iPod touch, iOS 6.1.6, null

Posted on Jul 15, 2016 7:06 PM

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