Okay, that's good and bad in a way. I have so much media that duplicating it all will take up a lot of room, but I suppose it beats having to worry about messing up my original copies.
You said it will not touch any directories I have. So, then, how could I tell all my practice music to be classified as some special music? I suppose I could use an id3 editor to force all songs to be part of a certain album or something, but is there a better way? On Oct 4, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Brandon Olivares <programmer2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > iTunes will not do anything to your music. It is all configurable with the > options in preferences. > > 1. No, it will not be converted. > 2. It is an option to copy it to the iTunes library and organize it under > there, but even if it does so, it does not touch your original copy. > 3. It doesn't care about folders nor will it touch any file or directory you > create. If it copies it to its own library, then it is in charge of > organizing that folder obviously. > 4. You can delete songs from iTunes without deleting the file itself. > 5. The grid view will allow you to browse by album, artist, genre, etc. > > Regards, > Brandon Olivares > Azavia Technologies > New: ZCaptcha — The Captcha Reader > On Oct 4, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I'd like to be able to add all my music to iTunes (and there's a whole lot >> of it), but I have some concerns. >> 1. Will it all be converted to m4a or aac? What about unsupported formats, >> like wma or ogg? >> 2. Will it be copied to the iTunes library, or will iTunes just look in the >> folders to which I point it? >> 3. Will it honor folders I make? Some music is ripped from CDs I use for >> practicing songs on bass or guitar, so it has no artist or album meta data. >> However, I keep it separate from my other music as most of it is shifted to >> new keys and so sounds rather odd. In other words, I need to keep it >> separate, or at least flagged somehow, so it does not play with my normal >> music. I categorize a lot of music like this, such as putting it in a comedy >> or country folder in my music folder. What will iTunes do about that? >> 4. If I decide I want to get rid of music from iTunes, can I do so with no >> erasing of anything? >> 5. In iTunes, can I view by song, artist, album, and so on like I can on my >> iPod? I tried this with the few songs already in the library, but could not >> see a way to do it. >> Thanks for any help. I'm normally no fan of iTunes, but I must say I like >> the remote control on the Apple earbuds and being able to sync certain songs >> with my iPod to have them with me, particularly with the wifi sync option. >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
