MrR moved my music drive (to a larger hard drive yay!) and iTunes is not handling this gracefully at all. (He hates iTunes, will not use it, and therefore did not follow any of the procedures detailed in the answers to this question.) The directory trees are all the same, the only change is the drive letter. How do I get iTunes to look in the right place without losing all the metadata (ratings, play dates/frequency)? (PC; iTunes does not organise my library; the old drive is already removed from my computer and wiped. Changing each file path individually is functionally not acceptable (30K files!), nor is changing the drive letter.)
posted by jlkr on Oct 30, 2009 - 23 answers

Annoying iTunes library question [more inside]
posted by Hartster on Jul 28, 2009 - 5 answers

how (on a mac) to share and browse an external hard drive full of music , all of which is stored as numbered files with the music details only in the mp3 meta data. [more inside]
posted by compound eye on May 23, 2009 - 10 answers

Newish iPod freezing during transfer from computer. Also HDScan not appearing in the diagnostics. Anything (additional) I should try before taking advantage of the service plan? [more inside]
posted by tremspeed on May 5, 2009 - 2 answers

I'm having a party at the weekend and planned on playing some music in the garden using iTunes - I need some help setting this up! [more inside]
posted by anonaccount on May 1, 2009 - 5 answers

How can I de-dupe my entire music library while preserving iTunes data? [more inside]
posted by DrDreidel on Feb 13, 2009 - 12 answers

Help me figure out how to share my music on one computer with two other computers in a way that makes iTunes happy. [more inside]
posted by Argyle on Feb 6, 2009 - 3 answers

Is it possible to edit the iTunes "Date Added" field? I am trying to relocate all of the music in my iTunes library from one computer to another and have had no luck keeping the "date added" field in tact. I am willing to manually edit the date added field for every album to match my old database. Is there an easier way to do this other than to constantly reset my system clock? I have over 1100 albums!
posted by anthropomorphic on Feb 2, 2009 - 15 answers

How can I group all of my individual (not on an album that I own) tracks together in itunes so that Cover Flow really is just whole albums that I own? [more inside]
posted by Lotto on Jan 8, 2009 - 3 answers

Can't seem to get this to work. iTunes sharing + iPhone remote - Mac Book Pro works, Xp doesn't; same network. Ideas? [more inside]
posted by filmgeek on Dec 30, 2008 - 2 answers

How to move my iTunes library from one computer to another while keeping in tact the original "date added" field for all 100gbs? [more inside]
posted by anthropomorphic on Nov 25, 2008 - 9 answers

Is there a way, (3rd party program, plug in, etc...) that will let me compare my iPod's music library against my iTunes library, (maybe on dual panes?) and visually mark which songs on my iTunes library are not in my iPod and viceversa? [more inside]
posted by Yorke and Vedder on Aug 5, 2008 - 3 answers

What is the easiest and best way for me to share my large iTunes multimedia library amongst 4 Macs? [more inside]
posted by arniec on Jul 22, 2008 - 12 answers

What's the best way to organize and re-tag my enormous MP3 library? (iTunes, Mac 10.5, 20k+ songs) [more inside]
posted by cosmic osmo on Jun 15, 2008 - 21 answers

My Macbook Pro was stolen. Just about the only non-shitty thing about it is that I keep my huge iTunes library on an external drive. All the music files are on the drive, but the data files (library.xml) were on the stolen Mac. I have another Macbook. What's the simplest way I can rebuild my library on it? [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on May 8, 2008 - 13 answers

How do I move my iTunes library from my old PC to my new PC? I listen on my iPhone, not an iPod, which I understand does not function in disk mode. I've searched other answers and can't find one that addresses these particular issues, plus the Apple website claims iTunes version 7.0 "fixes" this problem which really makes me nervous. Thanks!
posted by carriest on Apr 15, 2008 - 7 answers

How do I nicely organize my library of 80 gigs of MP3s? [more inside]
posted by Nelson on Feb 18, 2008 - 27 answers

I added some new music tracks to iTunes, and for some reason it thought they were podcast episodes. So it doesn't show them under 'Music'. But it's not showing them in the 'Podcasts' library either. I've deleted the music files from the Finder, but how can I clear out the tracks from my iTunes library? [more inside]
posted by chrismear on Jul 31, 2007 - 5 answers

Please help with a strange iTunes 7.3 problem - Library and synced iPod aren't "matching up"! [more inside]
posted by Ekim Neems on Jul 9, 2007 - 9 answers

A month or so ago, I became unable to add new tracks to Itunes. Whether I try to add via clicking on the track, dragging into iTunes, or adding the track from the file menu, the result is the same. I have also tried changing my preferences so that the track does not copy to the iTunes library when it is added; still the same. When I try to add a track, my hard drive just spins and makes a little clicking noise and iTunes goes into "not responding" mode, with the spinning pinwheel. [more inside]
posted by fastbacker on Jun 6, 2007 - 7 answers

I've moved my iTunes folder from a network drive to a local drive. I need to reformat the remote drive... but Apple says I need to leave certain files from the old directory in place. Also, there's a big size difference between the old and new folders. Help! [more inside]
posted by onshi on Mar 24, 2007 - 4 answers

I imported some mp3s into iTunes, searched for them in my music library and couldn't find them. I tried re-importing them: same thing. Finally, I found them in the podcast library. I don't want them there. How does iTunes decide to put a particular mp3 in the podcast library? I can't see any obvious tag that tells it to do this. What can I do to these mp3s to get to to show up in my main library?
posted by grumblebee on Dec 2, 2006 - 9 answers

ITunes is slowly eating my music library. This is happening gradually, a few dozen songs at a time, but as surely as the humble Colorado River carved the mighty Grand Canyon, so too will the topsoil of my music collection disappear. [more inside]
posted by sourwookie on Nov 27, 2006 - 17 answers

All the audible.com audiobooks vanished from my iTunes library, and iTunes won't let me re-import them. [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Sep 17, 2006 - 17 answers

Had PC, got Mac, want to get ALL my songs + metadata off my iPod and into my Mac library. Have tried a few programs and they didn't work out exactly right. Your recommendations please! [more inside]
posted by Brainy on Sep 11, 2006 - 8 answers

Itunes Library help: I couldn't find this using Itunes or the ask mefi search. [more inside]
posted by kuujjuarapik on Feb 16, 2006 - 8 answers

I have a powerbook, an external hard drive, and more music than will fit on my powerbook. I would like to keep a single organized library on my external hard drive and have a subset on my powerbook. I can do that easily enough -- but when I add iTunes to the mix . . . [more inside]
posted by kingfisher, his musclebound cat on Feb 3, 2006 - 11 answers

Help me with iTunes: Why won't my compilations display the tracks in order? Similarly: Why won't my multiple-disc albums display the tracks in order? [more inside]
posted by defenestration on Feb 2, 2006 - 8 answers

Help me solve the case of the missing iTunes library. [more inside]
posted by helvetica on Nov 30, 2005 - 9 answers

Sharing music between computers via iTunes (using shared library). Anyone know how to do it? [more inside]
posted by crapples on Nov 15, 2005 - 10 answers

In iTunes, why do songs I uncheck not play during shuffled playback? I just want to uncheck songs I don't want on the iPod and let 'em play normally in the library. It's easier than making a playlist for the iPod each time I add new albums. Alternatively, how do you manage your library when it exceeds the size of your iPod?
posted by riffola on Sep 12, 2004 - 12 answers

iTunes trashed my library! Can XML save my sanity? [more inside]
posted by kjh on Jun 25, 2004 - 8 answers