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  • March 19, 2012 at 6:43 am #16979
    Pär Hessler
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    Drag and drop would be fine…..

    March 19, 2012 at 6:53 am #16982
    Troy Michael
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    With Media Monkey I could sort out music based on any field in the tag and than move it. In I tunes I can do the same but as far as I know only make a copy and I cannot move the files.

    March 19, 2012 at 9:53 pm #17011
    Itchy Gash
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    Same here, I find putting everything in to iTunes and click and dragging them about is pretty straight forward but then I want to move all the downloads into a specific folder and when I go to open up tractor and cue whatever song it comes up that annoying red bar saying it can’t find the track….(as I’ve moved it to a different location) then having to go and import the track again, I guess I should get everything into there folders before importing not after ; )…..but yea click and dragging onto the desktop then into whatever folder……on the same note how do you put all music files already in mac/itunes on to an external Hd and getting iTunes/dj software to get them from that location?????

    March 20, 2012 at 5:49 am #1003313
    Troy Michael
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    I know with iTunes many users really do not care where the music files end up as long as they are located within a disignated music folder. I really want to have more control and organized of folders and music. Using iTunes alone makes this almost impossible. Finder does not work well either because you can’t query many fields that would help in music organization.

    March 20, 2012 at 8:45 am #17031
    Troy Michael
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    I have found a lot of info on using iTunes and getting organized in terms of playlist… but i think my main delima is where to place files and how to sort out the placement of the actual files and not the playlist part.

    So i guess my question here: Do you place your music files in organized file folders or just dump them all into one big folder?

    March 20, 2012 at 9:16 am #1003315
    Pär Hessler
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    Well in Mac you are free to put your files anywhere you want and move them around.
    You can even move a file that is currently playing (within the same HDD)
    or move it to the paiperbin!
    I think you come from the more locked PC where you are not as free as on Mac?

    I have my music organised in folders but you really do not need to if it is tagged.

    Like this:
    50/60
    70
    80
    90
    00
    10 New

    And in that folders:
    pop
    rock
    hardrock
    house
    house 70 80 rem¨
    house 90 rem
    house world
    R&B
    Hip-hop
    And so on…..

    When I get new music i put them in the right folders while i listen to them
    If it is much music I export an excell file from my taging program and sort them to folders using that info.

    It is timeconsuming and if you do not need it you could just put all files in a hdd or in a folder.

    March 20, 2012 at 1:30 pm #17036
    Reason808
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    With Media Monkey I could sort out music based on any field in the tag

    I’m not familiar with Media Monkey, but it sounds like you’re trying to sort your library with metadata instead of HFS.
    Any modern versions of the Mac OS allows you to put comments in a “spotlight comments” text field for any file. You can then use smart folders to dynamically sort the files based on these comments.

    The technique is elaborated on here:
    http://www.macworld.com/article/1058012/spotcomments.html

    You can also utilize the same basic metadata technique within iTunes: each track has a comment text field and then you make smart playlists.

    March 27, 2012 at 2:58 pm #17421
    DJ Doc
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    Troy Michael, post: 17115, member: 863 wrote: I have found a lot of info on using iTunes and getting organized in terms of playlist… but i think my main delima is where to place files and how to sort out the placement of the actual files and not the playlist part.

    So i guess my question here: Do you place your music files in organized file folders or just dump them all into one big folder?

    My best advice is to make iTunes your default player. That way, iTunes will automatically store every music or mp4 file you play or have in your laptop. It will also automatically sort out the tracks in your designated folder based on Artist Name.

    Basically, arrange iTunes to your personal liking, but bare in mind that if you move the track manually to another folder or make changes to it in your root folder, iTunes will not be able to locate it. The default settings for iTunes Media is user/music/iTunes/iTunesMedia..

    Good Luck 🙂

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