Ask iLounge 2-27-09

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Okay, I screwed up and desperately need some advise. I use an external hard drive for my iTunes library. For some reason last July my downloads switched back to being saved on my C: drive instead of my external drive. Realizing that I needed to move all my iTunes files from my C: drive to my E: drive, I did this by simply copying the files through Windows Explorer. After I had done this, I found your site, and followed your advice about resetting the default location to my E: drive and then using the ‘Consolidate Library’ function. This worked fine, but also duplicated all of my recently transferred files, in individual artist folders on my E: drive. I would like to delete all the duplicated files, but can’t figure out how to do so. I am not sure if it is possible to see a list of all recently addes files, or if I will have to go through each artist folder individually and delete the song files one-by-one (literally thousands). I thought about just deleting all the transferred files, and using ‘Consolidate Library’ all over again, but I don’t think that will work, as I’ve already relocated all files to my E: drive. I am looking for an easy fix, and you guys seem like a good resource. Please help if you can!

- Erik

For clarity, what actually appears to have happened here is that you ended up with two copies of the tracks from your internal hard drive: The copy you made manually with Windows Explorer, and a second copy made by iTunes’ “Consolidate Library” function. How to recover from this situation is going to depend largely upon whether you had manually re-imported the manually copied files into your iTunes library.

If you simply copied the files over and then discovered that iTunes couldn’t find them and therefore decided to do a “Consolidate Library” operation before actually importing them into iTunes, then you will have duplicate files, but these will not be listed in iTunes itself—they will simply be in your iTunes folders. In this case, provided you have sufficient disk space, the easiest solution is to set a new path for your iTunes Music folder, even on the same E: drive, and then use the “Consolidate Library” function to copy your tracks to this new location.

The key here is that “Consolidate Library” only copies tracks that are actually listed in the iTunes database, rather than just copying everything in your iTunes Music folder. Therefore, the new iTunes Music folder will contain only actual valid tracks. Once you’ve confirmed that everything is working, you can simply delete the old iTunes Music folder, since all of your “good” tracks have been copied to the new location.

If you had manually re-added the files to your iTunes library after copying them to your E: drive, then you’re in a situation where you actually have duplicates listed in your iTunes library. In this case, you will need to clean these up from within iTunes. The easiest method might be simply to bring up the “Date Added” column in your track listing and then sort by this column in order to sort out the most recently added tracks. You can change your column view by choosing View, View Options from the iTunes menu, or by right-clicking on your column headings.

You could also use a Smart Playlist to ferret out these recently-added tracks. Simply use the “Date Added” as a criteria within your Smart Playlist. You can either use a specific date if you know when you re-added the tracks, or you can simply include all tracks added within a recent time frame.

To delete tracks from within a playlist, select the track(s) and hold down the SHIFT key (Windows) or OPT key (Mac) on your keyboard while pressing the DELETE key. This removes the track entirely from your iTunes library, rather than just removing it from the current playlist.

Since I was running out of space on my C drive, I moved my songs and videos to an external hard drive. I then changed the location where my songs are kept in the Advanced preferences window of iTunes to the folder on the external drive. However, now when I try to play a song in iTunes I get an error message that iTunes can’t find the songs.

- Nancy

This problem is quite common, and occurs because iTunes stores a complete path to where you files are located. iTunes expects to manage these file locations for you, and gets confused when you start moving things around yourself. Essentially, iTunes is still trying to find your music tracks in their original locations.

Provided you have the disk space still available on your C drive, the best option here is to move all of your music files back to their original locations, and then use the “Consolidate Library” feature in iTunes to tell iTunes itself to relocate your media files to the new drive. Our article o. Transferring your iTunes Library provides more detailed information on how to do this.

Hi, I am totally new to iPods and MP3 players in general. I am buying a new 120 GB iPod Classic. I do not currently have iTunes installed on my system. I have an older laptop running Windows XP, but with little hard drive space left. I have a 160GB External Drive coming, and I wanted to install iTunes completely on the external drive. I was hoping that I would be able to use the hard drive on my computer at home and at work to boot up iTunes on either, plus I will be getting a new home computer in 6 months or so. Is it possible to install iTunes on the external drive only and still have it work? Thanks for any help!

- Paul

Just to be clear, there are actually a few different pieces that we are talking about in this case: The iTunes application program, the iTunes library database, and your actual media content.

For all intents and purposes, the iTunes application program must be installed on each individual computer, effectively on the system (C:) drive. You can choose to install iTunes in a different physical location, but there are still going to be preference files, registry settings, and other internal files that need to be installed as part of your Windows operating system. Your best bet is to just allow the iTunes installer to use its default locations during the iTunes install, and to reinstall iTunes on any other computers you plan to use it on.

The good news, however, is that this limitation only applies to the iTunes application program. You can tell iTunes to store its data - your library database and media content - just about anywhere you like. If you plan to use a single external hard drive with that data between more than one computer, you simply need to point each copy of the iTunes application to that external hard drive location.

Note that iTunes has separate and distinct settings for where to keep the library database and the media content, however this is usually very easy to set up with an initial iTunes library, rather than trying to move things around later. Read our article on Transferring your iTunes Library for much more specific instructions on how to set this up.

I have a Palm address book that I have used for years on my iMac. I want to transfer this address book and calendar to my iPod touch. Where do I start and what is the best and cheapest way?

- Tania

On a Mac, the iPod touch synchronizes primarily with Apple’s own Address Book and iCal applications either via iTunes or wirelessly through MobileMe. Therefore, the key to getting your address book and calendar data onto your iPod touch is to migrate it into these applications.

The simplest way to do this is by manually exporting your address book data and calendar data from your Palm Desktop application itself, using the vCard format for your address book information, and the vCal format for your calendar entries. The vCard files with your address book data can be imported directly into your Mac OS X Address Book using the File, Import, vCards option, and the vCal files with your calendar data can be imported directly into the iCal application using the File, Import option in iCal and choosing vCal as the import format.

Once you have the information in the Mac OS X Address Book and iCal, synchronizing it to your iPod touch is simply a matter of configuring the appropriate options under the “Info” tab for your iPod touch within iTunes. Alternatively, if you have a MobileMe subscription, you can configure your iPod touch to synchronize over Wi-Fi with the MobileMe servers simply by configuring your MobileMe account directly on your device.

I do not understand the organization of my iPod. I purchased the iPod classic 160 GB model because I have a lot of Music, Music videos and Movies. I loaded everything into iTunes 8 and all of my music went into the main Music category, and the Movies and Music Videos went into the Movie category. Then I plugged in my iPod in manual mode and created some play lists under the main categories on the iPod to separate out my movies, music videos and music. Using drag-and-drop from iTunes, I then loaded the movies into the movies section, the music videos into the “Music Videos” playlist, and the music into the various playlists that I had setup for different categories.

The problem I am having is that when I look at my iPod screen, things are NOT where I put them. For example, all the movies and music videos are still listed together under the main “Movies” heading. The thing is, that everything is in the iPod, just not in the right place, what am I missing or doing wrong?

- Alan

The thing to keep in mind is that iTunes and the iPod have three different categories for video content: Movies, TV Shows, and Music Videos. How a video track is categorized depends on a “Media Kind” tag within the file itself, and doesn’t really have any connection to where you try to put the specific item, either in iTunes or on your iPod.

While you would expect that things you add to a specific playlist should show up in that specific playlist, this is not always the case for video content, as the iPod tries to filter out content that is not relevant to the current category. Therefore, if you have a “Movie” in a playlist, this will not show up when browsing your “Music” section on your iPod, as iTunes and the iPod don’t expect that you would want to listen to a movie as part of your music selection.

Every video file you import into iTunes begins as a “Movie” by default, and will therefore be listed under the “Movies” section and treated as a movie track. To change this, you need to edit the information within these tracks and change their “Media Kind” to something else, such as “Music Video.” This is accomplished by selecting the track(s) in question, choosing File, Get Info from the iTunes menu to bring up the track information dialog box and then choosing the “Options” tab.

From here, you can click on the drop-down menu beside “Media Kind” to change the selected video track(s) from their default setting of Movie to either Music Video or TV Show.

Once a track has been set as a Music Video, it will basically be catalogued in the same manner as any other music track; it should appear alongside your normal audio tracks when browsing your music library in iTunes or on your iPod, and will appear both in your playlists under the iPod’s “Music” section, as well as being listed under “Music Videos” in the iPod’s “Videos” section.

Note that if you select a Music Video from a playlist in the iPod’s “Music” section, the iPod will only play the audio portion of that track. To play the actual music video, you must access it through the Videos, Music Videos menu.

For more information on how video content is organized in iTunes and on your iPod, check out our Complete Guide to Managing iTunes Videos.

When I plug my iPod touch in to sync with my Mac, it opens iPhoto and tries to sync photos even though I have ‘sync photos’ turned off and then will not sync music until I do a manual sync. Any thoughts? I’m using the latest iTunes version.

- Tim

Actually, what appears to be happening here has nothing to do with syncing photos to your device, but rather with the fact that your Mac is seeing your iPod touch as a “camera” and therefore opening iPhoto in much the same way as it would if you connected any other digital camera to your computer. Even though the iPod touch does not have a camera in it, you can save photos from other applications such as Mail or Safari, and these go into a “Saved Photos” section on your iPod touch and can be transferred back to your computer in much the same way as they would be from a digital camera.

The simplest way to fix this issue is to tell iPhoto to not open when you connect a camera. You can do this by going into your iPhoto preferences and changing the option beside “Connecting camera opens” to “No Application.”

Unfortunately, this will turn off automatic starting of iPhoto for any camera that you connect, and not just your iPod touch. This should be a minor issue, however, as it’s not difficult to open iPhoto manually when you connect your camera and actually want to transfer photos into your iPhoto library.

Assuming that you don’t actually have your iPod touch set to manage its content manually, the problem with it not syncing when connected is likely a separate issue with your iTunes preferences. Go into your iTunes Preferences and check the “Devices” tab and you’ll notice a setting to “Disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods.”

Ensure this is not selected, otherwise iTunes will not automatically sync any iPod or iPhone that is connected to your computer.

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12-14-07: New iPods - Buy now or wait? Transfer music from an old iPod, Convert MP3 to Lossless, Listening to videos and battery life, Bluetooth headphones for iPod nano, Universal Dock and line-out volume

12-7-07: Using Compilations settings, Re-syncing iPod after hard drive replacement, Locating iTunes Plus tracks, New iPod firmware - video output and iPod Hi-Fi support, Mac-formatted iPods, Cover Flow on iPod, iPhone screen goes blank when on a call

11-29-07: Photo resolution on the iPhone, Obtaining video content for the iPod touch, Restoring older iPod models, Sharing iTunes library on a single computer, Transferring iTunes via external hard drive, Auto-deleting played podcasts

11-22-07: Syncing games to iPod, Removing album artwork, Replacing files in iTunes library, Limiting volume on iPod, Preventing iPod sync when connecting with iTunes, Skipping audiobooks when shuffling songs

11-16-07: iTunes and Vista, iPod classic video output (revisited), Transferring iTunes from PC to Mac, Organizing Music Videos in iTunes, Using newer iPods with older OS X versions, Sorting photos on iPod

11-9-07: Editing calendar on iPod touch, Multiple iTunes libraries on one computer, Creating an iTunes Store account without a credit card, Burning CDs with track names, iPod/iPhone remote control, iPhone TV output from Safari

11-2-07: TV Docks for new iPod models, Calculate song file sizes, iPhone backup and restore, Sync selected content with iPhone, Universal Dock compatibility, Managing podcast synchronization

10-26-07: iTunes Plus, Play Slideshow on iPod nano, Activate TV out on new iPods, Recover Mac iPod in Windows, Add descriptions to TV shows, iTunes not opening when iPhone is connected

10-18-07: iPod and Windows Autoplay, Reinstalling iTunes, Manually Managing Videos, iPod charging accessories, iPod touch power and sleep modes, Resyncing recovered iPod content

10-11-07: Managing a class set of iPods, New firmware and older iPods, Windows ME support, Sorting artists by last name, 3G iPod car audio compatibility, Resetting iPod language

10-5-07: iTunes WiFi Store, Videos with no sound, Managing video content manually, Tagging TV Shows, Renaming iPod, Flash support on iPhone, Removing multiple artwork images, iPhone and multi-recipient SMS, US/UK iPod compatibility, Photo storage on iPod touch

9-27-07: iPod classic audio quality, New iPod models: features and accessory compatibility, Transferring music from iPod 5G to classic, iPod nano voice recording, Storing multiple bitrates in iTunes

9-7-07: Special Edition on the new iPod lineup - users most common questions answered about the new iPod lineup and new iTunes release, including accessory compatibility and new software features.

8-30-07: Playing single tracks, iPhone sleep timer, Deleting iPod content, TV shows do not appear on iPod, Manually sorting playlists, Fitting content onto audio CDs, Car line-out solutions

8-23-07: Set Video Kind within files, Authorization and iPod transfer, Chat Clients for iPhone, Importing CDs for gapless playback, Tethering iPhone, Burning Purchased Tracks

8-16-07: Managing podcasts, Bookmarking audiobooks, No artwork in Cover Flow, Storing iTunes content on two hard drives, Sleeping with an iPod, ROKR sunglasses and iPhone, Selling an iPod

8-9-07: Playing Podcast episodes in sequence, Recording radio in iTunes, New iPod with songs already on it, Authorized Computers, Sync iPod with a new computer, Transferring a Windows iPod to a MacBook

8-2-07: Syncing the iPhone to more than one computer, Transferring iTunes music to the Blackberry, Continuous video playback on the iPod, Problems editing track info in iTunes, Transferring content from iPhone to computer, Video playback from the iPhone, Sending MMS messages from the iPhone

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I had to get a new computer in a rush. I copied my itunes to an external hard drive hoping to just copy them over to the new computer. I have authorized the new commputer but i cant copy files?? it states access is denied? Please Help!

Posted by john biolchini on June 2, 2009 at 8:07 PM (PDT)

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