More iPod/iTunes questions.... With help from this forum I'm getting close to a very workable setup. Robin's script works like a charm and Nick's advice re iTunes "File => Add Folder to library" and unchecking the "Copy files to iTunes Music Folder" has got all the MP3s into iTunes without duplicating all the files, however I have one last problem and I wonder if anyone has been here before.
Is there any way to elegantly update the iTunes library from the MP3s? I found one CD that was badly mis-tagged so I fixed the FLAC tagging, ran Robin's script that correctly identified it as the only changed set of files and re-generated the necessary MP3s, but now how do I get iTunes to refresh it's library? I tried just adding the same folder to the iTunes library again and it looked to be re-reading the folder (it had progress info on screen) but when I looked at iTunes library afterwards it hadn't changed anything (and it also, thankfully, hadn't created 2 copies of everything). Right now it's looking to me as if the only way to get the updates into iTunes might be to delete the entire iTunes library and reload it from the external folder. Has anyone done this before? If I delete the entire library from within iTunes will it go out and delete all my MP3s or does it only delete files that are in the core iTunes music folder and not files that have been included via "Add folder to library"? I hope people don't consider all this to be way off topic but there do seem to be a fair few people wanting to shadow their Slim Devices music onto their iPod so it seems like the answers to these questions would be useful to others. - Julian -- JulianL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JulianL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16240 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
