ITunes :: Rebuild Library From Scratch On New NAS?
Apr 2, 2012
Just bought a new NAS with an iTunes Server function. But it requires all my music be in the iTunes Media/Music folder, all movies be in iTunes Media/Movies, etc. Unfortunately, after 6 years of upgrading iTunes, and letting it auto-consolidate/organize my library, my iTunes folder hierarchy is a mess. I have an iTunes Media folder within an iTunes Music folder, with another Music sub-folder below that, and a gaggle of "Previous iTunes Library" files floating around in there, too.
There's also some media folders outside of the iTunes Media folder, like old audio books and TV shows. Despite Apple's best efforts, there are still remnants of the old iTunes folder hierarchy in there. So I'm contemplating just starting a brand new iTunes Library and manually importing my songs, apps, audio books, movies, and MANY podcasts and ringtones in to it. I just want to clean up the iTunes folder hierarchy so I can properly use this iTunes Server app (and maybe improve my iTunes app performance).
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iMac 27" Quad Core (2010) / MacBook Air 13.3" w/256gb (2010), Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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Feb 26, 2012
Just got an email from Apple saying they cannot help me with this, even if i pay their service charge! Great customer service apple. My library crashed during the fix so i am attempting to rebuild my library from my hard drive and transfer it to itunes all on the one same computer, but its not working.I followed the instructions on Apples website:[URL]But when i got to:
7. Choose *File > Library > Import Playlist.*
8. Navigate to the "iTunes Library.xml" file on the Desktop.
- *Mac users:* Click Choose.
I open the file and it says "some of the songs in the file "itunes Music library.xml were not imported because they could not be found".So, THEN I tried copying all my music files into a folder on the desktop,and then going:
File>Library>Import Playlist>itunes folder (desktop) > Artists
folder>Artist album> individual song>Open
THEN it WILL transfer to itunes library but only ONE SONG AT A TIME and is not letting me "select all" and am having to import my songs one at a time! Seeing as though I have 4,000 songs, this will take me forever!
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Foolishly, i excluded my ~/music folder from my Time Machine backup, and when i restored following a recent system drive meltdown, i lost all of my iTunes library files - the .itl, the Previous iTunes Libraries, the .xml, everything. However, my media was on a different drive, which is still spinning. Additionally, i had my library synched to my iPhone, and i had Matched what iTunes could Match to the cloud. So i have all of my media locally, i have most of my media in the cloud and or on my phone, and i have most of my playlists in the cloud or on the phone. What is the best way for me to put my data back into iTunes and return to normalcy? In that i have an empty library right now, i have turned synching off on my phone. What i most want to get back is playlists. What i secondly want to get back are playcounts and ratings.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Early 2008
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Basically somehow my iTunes got jacked up.. just the music part of it.. Anyway, they are all songs from my CDs or mp3's, but just as a failsafe, I would like to backup my entire iTunes library to my external hdd.
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After which, I would like to rebuild my iTunes library using my mp3's and CD's and basically start from scratch.. so that this time around I can properly name songs/albums/artwork/etc
Then I want to take this new iTunes library, and fill my iPhone back up with my new Library in Itunes..
so basically I just want to backup my itunes just incase for some reason I cannot find a particular CD or mp3 in my collection.
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May 24, 2012
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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