[Ti] iTunes won't see my music

[~flipper]

John McGibney wrote:

>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

Wrong wrong wrong

i retained all my playlists, linked to different drives, etc, with 
zero reconfiguration...

experience   before  advice, eh?

~flipper