Okay, I think I'm still a bit confused as far as importing into the library. So, I can either copy it all, or just point iTunes to my music folders? If I do the latter, are there any risks or concerns I should know about, such as album art popping up all over the place or files getting moved around t be auto-sorted into artist/album folders? I don't sort by album, I just put all music in a genre into a single folder and leave it at that. As I said, I think iTunes will give me the best of both worlds, being able to just sort by genre, album, or whatever, but I don't want my actual directory structure changed around if iTunes thinks it knows best. I realize I can just tell it to copy into the library folder, but, as I said, that would take up a lot of hard drive space and would mean any new songs I download from sources other than iTunes would have to be manually added. Thanks for your help so far; this is the first time I've ever used a media player's library feature and I am, as you can tell, unsure of how it all works. On Oct 4, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Brandon Olivares <programmer2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. 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