iTunes advice

[Keith Henderson]

Paul sedd...


On Jul 8, 2013, at 9:25 AM, 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.

Except it doesn't.  :)

> I believe that setting only allows you to change where the root directory of your files live.  Keith's complaint is (as I understand it) that the arrangement of the lower-level subdirectories isn't to his liking, and so changing the "iTunes Media folder location" wouldn't help with that.

Righty.  Oh well.  It's still doing it (although two days ago, it wasn't).  I've just given up and will rearrange them to the way I want manually as I'm copying them over to backup storage, and then when I go to load them onto the playing device later in the new house, I'll start from the backup and then just not use iTunes there and they'll stay put.

I assume that will be XBMC, which I've never used.  I would start using it now, except that I don't have the time to learn - I gotta get all these discs loaded in before we move.

I think Carl is right...what's clunky now should eventually be made much more convenient.  (Though with some of these "open-source-databases" (Gracenote, the Spotify/Grooveshark catalogues, etc.) I always find that expecting average Joes to get things straight is just not feasible...I have to check *everything* to make sure it isn't totally wrong.  It's like getting a Cleopatra CD in the mail!) :)  Tracks are mislabelled, out of order, wrong/poor graphics, wrong spellings, music full of data errors, track cuts off before end of song/long bit of silence after track ends, all kinds of crap is just wrong.  Hopefully in the future, stuff will be much more organized and QC'd, but who knows?

Plus, my archive is pretty messy and large, and so while I'm here waiting for the day (soon?) when TB will become "small" and I can have my entire archive anywhere I want, I am trying to tidy it up as best as I can and otherwise just wait a little longer.  Storage with moving parts is now the case for me, but soon I hope (imagine) that 500GB memory sticks will be the norm (and cheap).  Then I can carry it all on a keychain.

Anyway, this discussion has been interesting and helpful...thanks.

Keith