iTunes for Windows

[Mr-K]

Huh. Wish I would have seen that before everything got screwed.

Oh well, time to re-organize. Everything will be prety great once I re-organize.

[stormy]

AH Goddamnit! I was really enjoying Itunes until it made like 80 folders in my music folder by artist and renamed the files. Damnit, I have to re-organize back to genre like I had before. Shit, this is gonna take hours.

The only time it does this is if you go to advanced>consolidate library, correct? I don't want to be doing this by accident and it seems to happen a lot.

[mollipen]

I dunno, everything just looked so much neater that way. And now it's renamed them all crazy like as well. I like to keep my folders tidy, but now there are 1500 folders in my music folder with one or two files in each folder.

See, I consider that neat and tidy. *shrugs*

And as Schlep said, if you end up using iTunes full time, why reorganize? One of the main points of iTunes is not having to go dredging into your music folders anymore. The only time I EVER touch my music folders is if I'm adding an MP3 that isn't coming from a CD, and at that point, the Artist -> Album folder sorting scheme makes it a lot easier to know exactly where it should go.

[Regus]

More iTunes rants and caterwauling.

[Josh]

Yeah... like I'm gonna buy the albums anyway.

However, that raises an interesting point.

Why not just download the songs you want from an album, then mail the musicians a five spot?

[Rumpy]

Does iTunes automatically save the main playlist/library? I fixed up the "main library" so to speak and I don't see how to save it. I'd be pissed if it reverted to how it was before. I think it missed a few folders of songs too, I don't think it has all of my songs. And what's the best way to make individual playlists? Like I have whole albums (like Nirvana) that I keep on one folder and a playlist (for winamp) that calls up just those tracks (so I'm listening to just that album).

Edit: I got it. I understand what Shidoshi was talking about, I though he just had his files really un-organized, but having your playlists right there is nice (your really lazy if you can't be bothered to open a window and select a playlist though). I have things set up pretty well now, so I'll give it a few days to see how it works out for me. Oh and those songs it didn't add...I'm not sure why they won't play in iTunes. They might be .ogg files.

Another Edit: I just rebooted and itunes just freaked out on me. the library list is all screwed up, for some reason it doubled the tracks i have. Example, the first track is "woo hoo" by the 5,6,7, 8's. So it has that track listed (which it says it can't find when it tries to play it) and then the one underneith that is "woo hoo" and that plays fine. So it's like it duplicated the track, renamed it but one of them doesn't work. It didn't do it for all the tracks but for a lot of them. ANd all of the winamp playlists I imported don't work now. WTF.

One more edit: Lol, I have no fucking clue what this thing is doing. I got the playlists to again but the main library is still fucked. I'm going to reboot and see if it fucks things up again now, so i don't waste any more time.

[Ryan]

See, I consider that neat and tidy. *shrugs*

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See, it's not "Neat and tidy" when it decides that one song should go in a file named "inflames" while another goes in "In Flames". Same thing!

I still have no fucken clue what the hell it was trying to do with all my Cowboy Bebop tracks, but it obviously just gave up after making 1000 different folders for each one.

Winamp 2 for me.

[Rumpy]

Last update from me! Fuck this thing! It keeps losing the tracks, I can right click on it and do "show info" or whatever and it gives me all this info and even where the file is located. So why the fuck is it asking me where it is when it ALREADY KNOWS? It seems to change which tracks it can't find everytime I start it, and it duplicates tracks that don't work (as I mentioned earlier). I'm going to keep it on the HD, but someone give me a yell when they put out a patch for this mess.

P.S- Winamp 2 works well for me and j00!

[Grave]

See, it's not "Neat and tidy" when it decides that one song should go in a file named "inflames" while another goes in "In Flames". Same thing!

Your id3 tags probably don't agree. If you fixed them in iTunes (which is pretty damn quick and easy), they'd move to the same folder.

[stormy]

but the way it handles ID3 tags is retarded

"u2" is different than
"U2" is different than
"U2 " etc, etc...

On many of my albums where the info came straight from CDDB, the album and artist names were not purely identical.

and it couldn't synch my iPod without running into unknown HD errors that i never got with MusicMatch. I had to connect and disconnect the iPod 4 times before all the songs made it over.

The software was obviously not ready for release on PC yet. I assume they just did it to get iTunes music store up for the shopping season. They have already announced getting over 1 million downloads of Windows iTunes, and thier iTunes traffic has almost doubled in that time.