Thanks for the Apple primer. I guess I wanted to make it harder than I
thought it had to be (hey, I come from a Windows background :-( ). It
looks like dragging a folder copies all the songs into iTunes while
dragging a song actually deletes it from the folder. Good distinction to
know. Despite my attempts to develop carpel tunnel syndrome last night
trying to sort this out, I have now gotten them all playing.
Thanks again,
Richard P.
What is the proper/best sequence to get the music into iTunes so that
it will stay there?
WinXP, iTunes 7.5.0.20
Well, to start with, an exclamation point means that iTunes couldn't
find the tune in the location that it's looking. So if you copied your
file to "My music" told iTunes where it was, then moved it, then it
can't find it any more. Unless you have iTunes organizing your iTunes
folder, it just copies the location, and leaves the file in place.
What you probably want to do is have iTunes keep your iTunes folder
organized. In Windoze, it's: Edit>Preferences>Advanced tab>General.
Make sure that "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" is checked. That
will move any file(s) that you want to add to your iTunes library to
your iTunes folder (which you can specify if you want to keep it on an
external drive), and put it into the proper sub-folders.
You don't need to import each song one at a time. You can grab whole
folders to import. (It's an Apple product. Of course it's smart enough
to do that.)
Katan
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