[X4U] Re: iTunes consolidation

[Stroller]

On Mar 3, 2005, at 6:03 pm, Kevin Lee Allen wrote:
>
> I believe that is how it is supposed to work and I believe that is how 
> it has worked for me in the past, but that is not working, this time.
> ...
> Clicking on Consolidate Library add the exclamation point icon, double 
> clicking on one of those songs allows me to find the song, but iTunes 
> then does not see the rest of the songs in the folder.

I'm sure the song must've been moved, or renamed or that its path 
must've changed.

> So, where I believe I had this problem before, iTunes was able to then 
> find the other parts of the library stored on that drive, every song 
> must be located.

I don't recall it ever behaving this way, but I wouldn't expect to be 
reliable on this point.

Is there really a problem with trashing your current library & starting 
again? Just move all your music files from all your machines to one 
place, trash iTunes library & preferences, find .mp3 in the big folder 
of files & drag them into iTunes. Repeat for all your .m4p & .aiff 
songs. Rinse. Drip dry only.

Stroller.