iTunes Library woes

[Tom Stiller]

In article <Bryan.Walls-0BBEF1.09001521072003@corp.newsfeeds.com>,
Bryan Walls <Bryan.Walls@nasa.gov> wrote:

> I recently got a new firewire drive at work, and manually consolidated
> my iTunes music collections at home and work to the new drive.
>
> Now most of the songs in my library can't find the new location. I don't
> want to manually update 3000 or so songs, but I also don't want to lose
> all my rating information. Is there any way to either modify the
> database (to change the path) or something to run to sync things up?

Have you tried to include the missing songs with iTunes->File->Add to
Library?

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[Bryan Walls]

In article
<tomstiller-4E65D2.11024921072003@news.comcast.giganews.com>,
Tom Stiller <tomstiller@comcast.net> wrote:

> In article <Bryan.Walls-0BBEF1.09001521072003@corp.newsfeeds.com>,
> Bryan Walls <Bryan.Walls@nasa.gov> wrote:
>

> > I recently got a new firewire drive at work, and manually consolidated
> > my iTunes music collections at home and work to the new drive.
> >
> > Now most of the songs in my library can't find the new location. I don't
> > want to manually update 3000 or so songs, but I also don't want to lose
> > all my rating information. Is there any way to either modify the
> > database (to change the path) or something to run to sync things up?

>
> Have you tried to include the missing songs with iTunes->File->Add to
> Library?

Yes, and I end up with two copies of the song -- one rated but not
found, the other playable but not rated. :-(

I'm in the process of reconsolidating from inside iTunes. I still don't
have a good method to add just the albums I don't already have to the
library (so I don't get multiple copies of everything I do have).


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[Heath Raftery]

Bryan Walls <Bryan.Walls@nasa.gov> wrote:

> I recently got a new firewire drive at work, and manually consolidated
> my iTunes music collections at home and work to the new drive.

> Now most of the songs in my library can't find the new location. I don't
> want to manually update 3000 or so songs, but I also don't want to lose
> all my rating information. Is there any way to either modify the
> database (to change the path) or something to run to sync things up?

What about selecting all and deleting from the iTunes window (choosing not
to delete the actual files of course!) and then selecting all your tunes
in the Finder and dragging and dropping to the iTunes window?

Heath
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[Chetty Ramanathan]

Don't you need to set Music Folder Location in the preferences - it's
under the 'Advanced' tab/icon in the Preferences window.

-c

In article <Bryan.Walls-0BBEF1.09001521072003@corp.newsfeeds.com>,
Bryan Walls <Bryan.Walls@nasa.gov> wrote:

> I recently got a new firewire drive at work, and manually consolidated
> my iTunes music collections at home and work to the new drive.
>
> Now most of the songs in my library can't find the new location. I don't
> want to manually update 3000 or so songs, but I also don't want to lose
> all my rating information. Is there any way to either modify the
> database (to change the path) or something to run to sync things up?
>
>
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[Bryan Walls]

In article <bfi208$f2g$1@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>,
Heath Raftery <hraftery@myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Bryan Walls <Bryan.Walls@nasa.gov> wrote:

> > I recently got a new firewire drive at work, and manually consolidated
> > my iTunes music collections at home and work to the new drive.

>

> > Now most of the songs in my library can't find the new location. I don't
> > want to manually update 3000 or so songs, but I also don't want to lose
> > all my rating information. Is there any way to either modify the
> > database (to change the path) or something to run to sync things up?

>
> What about selecting all and deleting from the iTunes window (choosing not
> to delete the actual files of course!) and then selecting all your tunes
> in the Finder and dragging and dropping to the iTunes window?
>
> Heath

That would work, but I'd lose all the information I entered rating all
the songs -- which is quite valuable to me, as far as listening to what
I like most of the time.


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