There is a feature of Itunes where you can view your library by songs and then sort by date added. You get to the viewing options by pressing command-j. Once you are viewing by date added you can import a folder into your library and see how the tagging worked. In other words, view the columns of the songs table such as artist, album, album artist, etc. and see what the meta data is. Then you can do batch editing to clean it up.
This is a way of controlling what goes into your Itunes library before you have duplicates and other funkiness. If not all of this makes sense let me know and I can elaborate. Marc On Dec 30, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Marcia Yale <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend of mine gave me a music collection which is currently organized > into folders by song name, although the majority of the files are tagged > with album/artist information as well. I would like to import this mess into > iTunes, but only if it will reorganize the songs into their artist/album > groups. This collection is currently on a separate USB drive, and it's > bigger than my Mac's own hard drive where my library currently resides, so I > don't want to start the whole process if there's no chance the grand > majority of the files will be properly organized. Has anyone tried what I've > set out here and, if so, how successful was it? > > Marcia Yale > "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can > hear her breathing."--Arundhati Roy > > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
