Hi Matthew,
You don’t have to copy music to your internal hard drive in order to add it to iTunes. Think of what is in your iTunes music library as links or shortcuts to the actual songs just like the shortcut of a program on your desktop is just a small file which points to the actual executable file of the application. Once you are ready to add the music to your iTunes music library, just open iTunes, make sure your external drive is connected and then go to “File > Add Folder to Library. This will open a standard windows dialogue where you can browse to the folder where you have all your music on the external drive, make sure it is highlighted and then tab to the select button and activate it. Depending on the size of your library it may take a few seconds, you should hear the typical tri-tone iTunes makes when it’s done doing something. At that point you can go to your music library and see all your music. A few tips: I really like the column browser in iTunes where you have 3 columns/treeviews for Genre, Artist and Album and a fourth for the song titles. This allows you to nicely find any music in iTunes if you want to play it from iTunes. You could, for example, select “Rock” from the genre treeview and all tracks which have their genre ID3 tag set to rock will be in the listview of songs. Let’s say you have 3 albums from the Eagles and you feel like just hearing Eagles music, just select the Eagles in the artist treeview and all Eagles tracks from all albums will be displayed. If you want to just see the tracks from one album, for example, When Hell Freezes Over, an awesome live album from the Eagles, just tab into the album treeview and if you already selected the Eagles as the artist, then only your 3 albums will show up there, select any one of them and only the songs from that album are in your song listview. In order to get to the column browser, you have to make sure you set how your music is displayed to “Songs”, other options are “Artist”, “Album” etc. This is a button, just tab until you find it, activate it and make your selection. Once set to Songs, go to the View menu, find the column browser option and enable it. Now, one word of caution: iTunes does not care where your music is stored on the computer or external drive. It does not care about folders or file names and what you see in iTunes is strictly based on the ID3 tag information of your files. If you rip music from CD’s they will mostly get tagged correctly unless they are very obscure albums which are not in the databases available. If you buy music from iTunes it will of course also be correctly tagged. If, however, you ripped CD’s without an internet connection or using an application which doesn’t look up this information, your music may not be tagged or tagged correctly and you would have to do so manually. The same applies to any recordings you made yourself. You can do this in iTunes, but I won’t go into it now since it’s another entire large area and topic. Hopefully the above will at least get your music into iTunes. If you do have Apple Music and you enable iTunes Music Library your music will be uploaded to your iCloud, but it will only be available to you and to devices where you use your Apple Id. If the music is music available in the iTunes store and it is “matched” then it won’t actually get uploaded, but it will be available nonetheless. Any music which can’t be matched will actually be uploaded. This does not count against your 5Gb iCloud storage. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Bullis Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 11:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: ITunes adding content question. Hello, I'm going to get the 128 gig 6SPlus, and I have a question about ITunes, since I've not used it before to deal with music on the hard drive. I intend to plug in an external hard drive to get the music. Will ITunes require that the content be copied onto the hard drive of the computer itself before uploading the music to the new phone? Also, a good deal of the material is concert recordings, which of course aren't officially available on ITunes. I've tagged the material properly, so will the music app show this content just as if it were actual albums? Will it upload those titles into the cloud for public viewing, or am I the only one to see the content? I wouldn't want someone finding the titles and wondering why the material isn't available. Thanks, Matthew -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. 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