Greg, have you tried the consolidate library optioN? You might be
able to rename your ITunes music folder which is currently your
library to something else, and then consolidate your library, which
would ask ITunes to move all of the material into it's usual library
folder, thereby creating a new one from scratch?...
Not sure if this will work, but it might...
Best of luck to you and have a great day!...
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Dec 2, 2007, at 3:29 AM, Greg Williams wrote:
Hi,
I had my itunes music folder all nice and organized into
artist:album:song hierarchy, and itunes put newly imported CDs in
that structure. Well, somehow the "organize library" preference
became unchecked, and I imported a couple of CDs whose files just
got thrown into my "itunes music" folder.
I went investigating why this happened and found the unchecked
organize preference. I checked, and then began my problems. When I
quit out of preferences, itunes kindly asked me if I would like my
library organized, and I blithely responded yes. When I looked at
my itunes music folder in the finder, I found that my music was now
organized in song_folder:album_folder:track_number+artist_file.
This is not at all what I wanted, but I could not find any obvious
way to undo it in itunes. The puzzling thing is that when it
imports CDs, it does it in the hierarchy I had expected. This might
be mildly annoying but amusing except that I often use VLC to play
albums because I can just navigate to the album folder in the open
dialog and play which is easier than itunes. I have tried to find
scripts online to undo this mess, but I have not had any success
thus far. Does anyone have any suggestions short of deleting all of
the music and re-importing the CDs from scratch? Thanks.
Greg
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