[Ti] iTunes won't see my music

[John McGibney]

On May 28, 2005, at 1:23 PM, ~flipper wrote:

> ML B wrote:
>
>
>> My hard drive containing all my music died and I'm trying to use  
>> another (backup) HD with the same music on it.  I told iTunes that  
>> the backup is now the location of my music but I can't get my old  
>> playlists to recognize the new location of the songs without  
>> showing it for each song.   HELP this will take a month to do one  
>> at a time
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
>
> If the 'backup' drive was backed up after you did any altering of  
> the meta data of the songs, (such as changing titles, case, id3  
> tags, comments, whatever), then you're in real good shape. The meta  
> data is in the individual files, not in your library, not specific  
> to locations. So, simply select your entire itunes main library,  
> and delete, then go to "Add to library', up in the itunes file  
> menu, and add the whole works in one fell swoop.
>
> i.e., if your various artists, albums, etc are in one main folder  
> (containg folders, containing more folders, etc), then selecting  
> the root folder/directory will add everything to a new library,  
> maintaining all of your tags, alterations, etc.
>
> Going one-by-one is for the birds (uh, birds, bot Byrds).
>
> brian s
> ~flipper
> _______________________________________________

DON'T DO IT!!!
Doing it that way will delete your playlists.
To keep your playlists just drop the folder with all the songs in it  
onto your itunes app or open library window. Links to the new songs  
will replace the missing songs.

John

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