You could put it all under a particular playlist, but you'd still have to exclude it from the rest of your music. Honestly, I'd just not put that practice music in iTunes at all.
Although, now that I think of it, you can set the genre to something like Speech or some other rarely used genre, and have a smart playlist exclude that genre. Also, you don't have to select the option to import it into the iTunes library folder. I prefer it because you always know where to find it. Regards, Brandon Olivares Azavia Technologies New: ZCaptcha — The Captcha Reader On Oct 4, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
