Gday I bet this is the single biggest pitfall to new iTunes users, it caught me out.
Over months I had painstakingly edited the ID tags of my MP3s including truncating filenames to stay below 32 characters(OS9 days). All of this work was rent assunder by iTunes as it happilly imported my music from backup CDs using any existing ID tags to catalog them, its biggest crime was making a huge folder called unknown which contained all the unnamed "albums". I deliberately left out albums from the id tags as Im not interested in them, just the artist. Start again with the tunes in place before switching itunes music folder to the existing mp3 directory.... Still Im unhappy with the resulting lists displayed in iTunes as it does not use the filenames in the absence of ID tags to identify a playlist item and sort the columns. Maybe Im just trying to do it the winamp way still... As an aside, I installed iTunes for windows (contains the same pitfall) and it is the first that time I have been able to share ANYTHING other than the Home directory from OSX. I have a seperate HDD for our files including mp3s, so to share anything with the peecee we have had to copy it to the desktop first! Sounds like a groovy setup you have there! Keep up the good work and long live the personal Radio Station!! Paul ---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected], Subject: Re: Me vs iTunes Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:05:39 +0800 >Hi Again, > >I just found the option to turn this off... ;) > >/me gets off his high horse... > >Adam. > > > >On 28/10/03 11:00, "Adam Hewitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I finally got all my computing equipment setup last night after >having it >> sit in storage for 3 months. My setup is composed of a linux >server attached >> to the ADSL phone line, this server has a wireless connection to >another >> linux server attached directly to the wired lan in my study (this >setup is >> purely to eliminate the need for phone lines running through the >house). I >> was mostly excited about the idea of being able to connect my >ibook's >> wireless connection to the LAN server and connect my ibook to the >stereo in >> the living area so that I have wireless access to the ~15Gb of >MP3's that I >> have stored on the LAN server (file server, squid cache and >gateway). >> >> I was rather annoyed when I played my first mp3 in the setup above >and >> discovered that iTunes actually copied the mp3 to the ibooks hard >drive!!! >> Why is it not able to add it to the iTunes library, but play it >from a >> remote share??? Aaarrrgggg...I have been dreaming of this moment >for months >> and it is crumbilng before my eyes...please tell me that there is >some way >> to prevent this from happening. >> >> Adam. >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >> > > >-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >
