iTunes advice

[Jonathan Smith]

It does, but I agree that it is better to get rid of it and find something
more  flexible. I  might  be a cynic but it seems that iTunes main purpose
is to direct your money in Apple's direction.


On 8 July 2013 21:25, Albert Bouchard <altbouch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forgive me if this answer has already been given but iTunes lets you
> specify where you want your files to be stored. In the preferences menu
> under advanced you can specify where you want your files to be kept. It can
> be anywhere you want.
> Hope this helps,
> Al
>
> On Jul 8, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>
> > On 07 Jul 2013, at 13:35 , Keith Henderson <khenders64 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> >>
> >> So my question...what the hell *really* controls the subdirectory
> structure and filename editing?  And why can't I keep my sh*t where I
> want/put it?
> >
> > I think the short answer is that iTunes controls this, and your desire
> to control the location and form its directories is fundamentally at odds
> with (what was) Steve Jobs's desire to make everything increasingly
> seamless and invisible. (Witness, for example, iOS ....)
> >
> > The Apple philosophy is (or at least seems to have been up to now) that
> you don't need to know where things "really" are (not that they are
> "really" there in the "file system" as such, but it's a familiar
> abstraction to long-time computer users). So while I can appreciate the
> desire of the individual to exercise detailed control over the traditional
> UNIX-style directories etc. that iTunes uses to place its UNIX-style data
> files, etc., iTunes was not designed with the interests of such a user in
> mind, and you might as well give up on it.
> >
> > For practical purposes, I think you have 2 choices regarding iTunes:
> either use it as-is, or not ;) and find some other media-organizer/player
> that annoys you less (though to get one that does _exactly_ what you want,
> you would probably have to write it yourself!).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Carl
> >
> > --
> > Carl Edlund Anderson
> > http://www.carlaz.com/
>