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I'll get straight to the point - why is iTunes so absurdly retarded when it comes to adding new music/videos to your existing library? I have it set to automatically keep my library organised, and to copy tracks to the iTunes folder when added to the library. Sounds fine, no?
Yeah right. iTunes doesn't monitor your music folders* (take a bow, Windows Media Player), so you have to add any new tracks yourself. That'll be "Add Folder to Library..." then. Er, no. iTunes is so dimwitted it jumps straight into the folder adding, and doesn't bother to check whether the track it's currently adding is already in the library. This means that each time I (re)add my WMP music folder - which where I chuck all my music to start with - every file that was already present in my iTunes library ends up getting duplicated.
Thankfully it's *marginally* smarter when syncing with the iPod - although I do still get a duplicate or two; most of Hot Mess duplicated itself, plus a bit of Skynyrd and Metallica - but come on... why is iTunes so stupid in the first place?
Is iTunes meant to be this anal, and if so, is there anything better than iTunes for managing my iPod? I tried iPodFolderWatch, but that said half my library wasn't already in the iTunes library, even though it was.
*as it turns out, iTunes 9 has a special folder that anything dropped in it gets automatically added to the library. But you can't move it or point it somewhere else, which means you still have to add new files to the iTunes folder yourself... which isn't much better than it originally was :/
Also, apologies if that seemed like a hybrid question-rant and gave you a headache... it's nearly midnight, iTunes is driving me insane and I'm tired. lol
Yeah right. iTunes doesn't monitor your music folders* (take a bow, Windows Media Player), so you have to add any new tracks yourself. That'll be "Add Folder to Library..." then. Er, no. iTunes is so dimwitted it jumps straight into the folder adding, and doesn't bother to check whether the track it's currently adding is already in the library. This means that each time I (re)add my WMP music folder - which where I chuck all my music to start with - every file that was already present in my iTunes library ends up getting duplicated.
Thankfully it's *marginally* smarter when syncing with the iPod - although I do still get a duplicate or two; most of Hot Mess duplicated itself, plus a bit of Skynyrd and Metallica - but come on... why is iTunes so stupid in the first place?
Is iTunes meant to be this anal, and if so, is there anything better than iTunes for managing my iPod? I tried iPodFolderWatch, but that said half my library wasn't already in the iTunes library, even though it was.
*as it turns out, iTunes 9 has a special folder that anything dropped in it gets automatically added to the library. But you can't move it or point it somewhere else, which means you still have to add new files to the iTunes folder yourself... which isn't much better than it originally was :/
Also, apologies if that seemed like a hybrid question-rant and gave you a headache... it's nearly midnight, iTunes is driving me insane and I'm tired. lol
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