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iTunes Library (Re)Organization

post #1 of 6
10/28/10 at 9:32pm
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I'm not an iPod hater.  I've got a 3rd Gen Nano and  Touch.  But iTunes is a different matter.  That I hate.  I want to move files out of my iTunes library and use Foobar for all music management. Some of them I don't have to move because I've got the original wav or wma on my hard drive.  But I made the mistake of ripping a bunch of things with iTunes and now they're in that insane directory structure that are organized by artist, rather than album.

 

Is there any relatively painless way to reorganize the files or will I have to got through them folder by folder?  Any tips/suggestions are appreciated.

 

Thanks

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post #2 of 6
10/29/10 at 1:40pm

Yes, are you on a Mac on windows?

 

You can actually just drag files from iTunes to where you want to save them. Which means you have a world of opportunities (provided that you have the correct info in iTunes, artist, album etc.).

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post #3 of 6
10/29/10 at 3:10pm
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On Windows.  That was what I thought it would take, so there go some weekends.

 

Thanks.

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post #4 of 6
10/29/10 at 3:50pm

Are all your files properly tagged?  Or have at least the ones by which you want your folder organization done by?  If so, you have many options for auto re-organization.  Foobar works very well for this.

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post #5 of 6
10/29/10 at 5:11pm
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That's going to be the time consuming part. I know a bunch of files are from vinyl I ripped using Audacity. They're pretty sketchily tagged. So the plan would be to tag them correctly in iTunes, then use Foobar to reorganize?

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post #6 of 6
10/29/10 at 7:44pm

If your ultimate plan is to ditch itunes, I would dump it now and do all the tagging in foobar.  Monitor your itunes folder as well as all other folders that contain music files (top-level folders) in foobar and then get to tagging.

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