iTunes song summary information.

Posted by: kevin-h on 09 June 2005

Hoping someone may be able to offer some assistance.
I originally had my itunes on my C drive but have quickly filled it up so bought an external hard drive and copied all the songs across and redirected itunes where to copy songs to.
The problem is that now all the songs that were originally copied when itunes was directed at the C drive now have an apostrophe next to them and when I click on it to play I get an error message saying the original file could not be found and asks me to try and find it, which involves remapping to the new directory. This appears to only be possible on a song by song basis and I cannot for the life of me find a way of mapping all the songs to the new directory.
Does anybody know of a sneaky way around me having to do this for 18Gb worth of songs!

Thanks in advance,

Kevin.

Posted on: 09 June 2005 by garyi

Keith.

I can only offer up advice regarding macs but I'll assume it works for PC.

Navigate to your itunes library

drag this folder to your new drive, wait for it to copy over.

Goto itunes and advanced and in there is an option to specify where you music folder is. Pick your new location.

restart itunes. If there is no music showing, simply drag the music folder from within the newly copied itunes folder onto the itunes window, this will very quickly update the list.

As I say this is for mac and could just as easily completely confuse windows.

Posted on: 09 June 2005 by kevin-h

Thanks garyi,

Your suggestion worked a treat!
You have saved me from a bunch of mundane work!

Kevin.

Posted on: 10 June 2005 by garyi

Glad it worked.

Be aware however that regardless of where the music is stored, itunes will always look to its original location for the XML file listing your music. So from the original location you can safely delete the music folder contained in the itunes folder, but leave the itunes folder and the XML file there, it won't use a lot of space.

If you have deleted it already next time you launch itunes you may find no music. Again navigate to your new location and drag the music folder from within the itunes folder back onto the itunes window, and leave the new itunes folder that will have appeared in your orginal location

I hope that makes sense.