I have about 30 odd gigs of music. It was wonderfull. All great quality, and organized extremely well. Most songs had id3 tags. I had it organized as such
Music > Artist > Album Name > Artist-Album-track#-song title.
I downloaded iTunes to play with it and see how I liked it before my iPod arrives. I used iTunes import a couple CD's as mp3's. It did ok. Didn't like the way it makes you name them(actual file name does not contain artist or album title).
Here is where the problem started. It was listing all my music that I imported into 'my Library' in the source box. I thought.. eh cool. I can now browse my entire collection - or atleast the cd's I imported thus far. I imported my entire music collection to my library. Little dialog box pops up showing progress and what not, takes a couple minutes. Everything looks good in iTunes.
Now the problem -It killed the organization in my music folder. Not sure how to explain it but... Whenever a song would have another artist on it, or was a compilation album, or a live set. It would creat a new artist and album folder for that song. iTunes also renamed all the files names to the iTunes naming sequence(without artist/album/track names). I used to have one Rollign Stones artist folder. I now have 16, and most of the cd's and bootlegs are completely out of order to the point I cannot figure out how to put them back together.
All my music is on a seperate drive(lost it all once in a OS crash) I can't think of anyway of reversing this.
Any programs out there that can sort mass music and don't suck? Any help or ideas would be great, this has ruined my day and closing in on the week so far.
Music > Artist > Album Name > Artist-Album-track#-song title.
I downloaded iTunes to play with it and see how I liked it before my iPod arrives. I used iTunes import a couple CD's as mp3's. It did ok. Didn't like the way it makes you name them(actual file name does not contain artist or album title).
Here is where the problem started. It was listing all my music that I imported into 'my Library' in the source box. I thought.. eh cool. I can now browse my entire collection - or atleast the cd's I imported thus far. I imported my entire music collection to my library. Little dialog box pops up showing progress and what not, takes a couple minutes. Everything looks good in iTunes.
Now the problem -It killed the organization in my music folder. Not sure how to explain it but... Whenever a song would have another artist on it, or was a compilation album, or a live set. It would creat a new artist and album folder for that song. iTunes also renamed all the files names to the iTunes naming sequence(without artist/album/track names). I used to have one Rollign Stones artist folder. I now have 16, and most of the cd's and bootlegs are completely out of order to the point I cannot figure out how to put them back together.
All my music is on a seperate drive(lost it all once in a OS crash) I can't think of anyway of reversing this.
Any programs out there that can sort mass music and don't suck? Any help or ideas would be great, this has ruined my day and closing in on the week so far.
As long as all your artist and album names are consistent, it should group the files very nicely. I personally am a fan of the auto organizing feature. If you right-click on a song in iTunes and click "get info", then click the tab up top that says "info", there is a box at the bottom you can check that says "part of a compilation". This changes the organization by putting all compilation albums into a folder titled "compilations" instead of sorting in folders by artist.
Despite what this smilie implies: 
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