Also, for any large tagging project on Windows, I would recommend the program Mp3 Tag.
Thanks, Ari > On Sep 28, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > You don’t have to copy music to your internal hard drive in order to add it > to iTunes. Think of what is in your iTunes music library as links or > shortcuts to the actual songs just like the shortcut of a program on your > desktop is just a small file which points to the actual executable file of > the application. > Once you are ready to add the music to your iTunes music library, just open > iTunes, make sure your external drive is connected and then go to “File > Add > Folder to Library. This will open a standard windows dialogue where you can > browse to the folder where you have all your music on the external drive, > make sure it is highlighted and then tab to the select button and activate it. > Depending on the size of your library it may take a few seconds, you should > hear the typical tri-tone iTunes makes when it’s done doing something. At > that point you can go to your music library and see all your music. > A few tips: I really like the column browser in iTunes where you have 3 > columns/treeviews for Genre, Artist and Album and a fourth for the song > titles. This allows you to nicely find any music in iTunes if you want to > play it from iTunes. You could, for example, select “Rock” from the genre > treeview and all tracks which have their genre ID3 tag set to rock will be in > the listview of songs. > Let’s say you have 3 albums from the Eagles and you feel like just hearing > Eagles music, just select the Eagles in the artist treeview and all Eagles > tracks from all albums will be displayed. If you want to just see the tracks > from one album, for example, When Hell Freezes Over, an awesome live album > from the Eagles, just tab into the album treeview and if you already selected > the Eagles as the artist, then only your 3 albums will show up there, select > any one of them and only the songs from that album are in your song listview. > > In order to get to the column browser, you have to make sure you set how your > music is displayed to “Songs”, other options are “Artist”, “Album” etc. This > is a button, just tab until you find it, activate it and make your selection. > Once set to Songs, go to the View menu, find the column browser option and > enable it. > > Now, one word of caution: iTunes does not care where your music is stored on > the computer or external drive. It does not care about folders or file names > and what you see in iTunes is strictly based on the ID3 tag information of > your files. If you rip music from CD’s they will mostly get tagged correctly > unless they are very obscure albums which are not in the databases available. > If you buy music from iTunes it will of course also be correctly tagged. If, > however, you ripped CD’s without an internet connection or using an > application which doesn’t look up this information, your music may not be > tagged or tagged correctly and you would have to do so manually. The same > applies to any recordings you made yourself. > You can do this in iTunes, but I won’t go into it now since it’s another > entire large area and topic. Hopefully the above will at least get your music > into iTunes. > > If you do have Apple Music and you enable iTunes Music Library your music > will be uploaded to your iCloud, but it will only be available to you and to > devices where you use your Apple Id. If the music is music available in the > iTunes store and it is “matched” then it won’t actually get uploaded, but it > will be available nonetheless. Any music which can’t be matched will actually > be uploaded. This does not count against your 5Gb iCloud storage. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Matthew Bullis > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 11:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: ITunes adding content question. > > Hello, I'm going to get the 128 gig 6SPlus, and I have a question about > ITunes, since I've not used it before to deal with music on the hard drive. I > intend to plug in an external hard drive to get the music. Will ITunes > require that the content be copied onto the hard drive of the computer itself > before uploading the music to the new phone? Also, a good deal of the > material is concert recordings, which of course aren't officially available > on ITunes. I've tagged the material properly, so will the music app show this > content just as if it were actual albums? Will it upload those titles into > the cloud for public viewing, or am I the only one to see the content? I > wouldn't want someone finding the titles and wondering why the material isn't > available. > Thanks, > Matthew > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. 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