Thank you both. It all started when I copied the iTunes folder from
Windows. It was fine but then I started adding those movies.
I scrapped the iTunes folder and restarted it. This time, taking the
tip from Tim, I copied all my media in one move to the Automatically Add
folder. Started iTunes and left it. All done.
When I rip some more dvds I will point it to the same folder.
I never tried to make iTunes work my way, I just did not understand
all its tricks. Always had left the settings alone too.
Will move it all to external drive another day. Thank you both again.
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On 1/26/2015 3:13 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
It is actually a very clean system if you let iTunes manage the organization of
things like it’s meant to do. That is,
• There are folders in your home directory like Desktop, Documents, Music,
Pictures, Movies etc. These are built-in folders meant for things like iPhoto,
iTunes, iMovie etc.
• within the Music folder, as mentioned by Sabahattin, there is the parent
iTunes folder which is meant to contain all iTunes related media. So, within
the iTunes parent directory are the sub-directories for iTunes Library database
files, Album Artwork and the iTunes Media folder. This iTunes Media folder
logically, contains all the iTunes related media files including your music,
movies, TV Shows, Ring Tones, Audio Books etc.
• If you allow iTunes to do its magic, it will place all media in the
appropriate locations keeping everything neat and tidy. Anything that happens
to be mis-labelled such as a ripped movie or TV Show can be fixed from within
the Get Info dialog in iTunes itself and the app will clean up some more.
• Third party apps that you use to rip media often place things in other
locations, not necessarily logical to iTunes. For example, your movie ripping
app places the ripped movies or TV shows all into the Movies folder in your
home directory. This Movies folder is actually meant for iMovie or other media
creation kinds of apps.
• You can certainly import these ripped movies into iTunes and, as long as you
let iTunes do its OCD organizational thing, it will make a copy in the
appropriate location within the iTunes Media world, and life will be good.
Once that import is done, you can delete the original copy from the Movies
folder.
• In the sighted world, one would have dragged the movie or TV Show into the
“Automatically Add to iTunes” folder within the iTunes Media folder and no
extra deleting would need to be performed. In the VO world, you could cmd-c to
Copy the movie/TV Show, then cmd-option-v to Move it into the “Automatically
Add to iTunes” folder and the same thing would happen without the need for the
extra step of deleting the media file from the original location.
Most problems occur when we try to out-think iTunes and do things in a
different manner than iTunes is meant to. Not to say that this isn’t possible,
it just means that you occasionally will have some issues when managing iTunes
media in other ways.
Hope this makes some sense.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jan 26, 2015, at 13:00, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Still not getting what I want with iTunes on the Mac. On Windows all the
music is stored in its own Music folder inside the iTunes folder.
On the Mac its the opposite. Is this the default where the iTunes folder is
inside the Music folder? All the subfolders like Home Videos, Books, Tones is
mixed in with the music files. Messy.
I may start from scratch. I can import all the media, so how should I set
iTunes to its factory condition?
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