iTunes shoots you in the foot
It is oft said that the C programming language, and C++, allows you to shoot youself in the foot, in comparison to Java that is tighly type cast. I found this - notice the Java entry versus the C entry.
Anyway my reason for this meander down programming 101 lane is thus: this evening I was attempting to consolidate my iTunes library. I have some 7000 tracks on my mini, several hundred of them must be duplicates, such that I've given up on it.
Horrific isn't it ? No I don't mean my musical taste !
Well anyhow, I thought I'd have a quick look at my MBPs Library, it was starting to get untidy.
First of all I ran iTunes ever so helpful, "Show Duplicate Songs"
Excellent, there was about 144, nothing to major. Some were meant to be present, such as REM E-Bow the letter, featured on two albums.
Fine, still some room for improvement. I got bored trying to manually delete tracks, since I knew a major contingent of them were indeed my fault - I used to create a folder for tracks I wanted to burn to CD or put on my Phone, I'd fill these folders with copies of the tracks, incase I lost the folder during a burn or a copy.
I decided I could get round this problem of my creating extra folders by simply deleteing the iTunes library and reimporting the organised iTunes music folder from the disk.
iTunes very helpfully allows you to delete the library but not remove the files from the disk if you don't want.
Great.
So I then copy all my tracks back in to the library, all 2251 of them. All good so far. That is until I find that actually when iTunes has emptied my Library (alright, when I emptied my Library) it also takes out the playlists. Not just my own created lists, but the "Purchased", "Most played" smart list everything. The lists are still there - just nothing in them.
This is extreemly annoying since the only way I knew how to find Dave Brubeck Take Five, was in the that Top 25 Played list, he was at the the top with something silly like 425 plays. I am not here ot absovle my dreadful taste, and anyway the maltese one likes that on a Friday, it is our end of the week song with a coffee.
What is more annoying is I have been extreemly fond of this Apple Script...
From Doug Adams, it allows me to import my CDs directly into a playlist. Something I find strangely lacking in iTunes' Library viewer. No Browse function doesn't do it, for one it includes podcasts etc.
So I am a bit miffed, it is all my own fault obviously. I am just a bit annoyed that iTunes removes the links in the playlists without telling you that is what you're doing. On the plus side, the display of duplicate songs.... yeah well that is down... to 44, it is all my own fault obviously. I am left with must be 50 playlists with naff all in them... it is all my own fault obviously
UPDATE: I mentioned the other day about my smart playlist that helps me keep track of which podcasts I've listened too... well my little tidying up exercise has screwed the pooch on that too. Marvelous.
Anyway my reason for this meander down programming 101 lane is thus: this evening I was attempting to consolidate my iTunes library. I have some 7000 tracks on my mini, several hundred of them must be duplicates, such that I've given up on it.
Horrific isn't it ? No I don't mean my musical taste !
Well anyhow, I thought I'd have a quick look at my MBPs Library, it was starting to get untidy.
First of all I ran iTunes ever so helpful, "Show Duplicate Songs"
Excellent, there was about 144, nothing to major. Some were meant to be present, such as REM E-Bow the letter, featured on two albums.
Fine, still some room for improvement. I got bored trying to manually delete tracks, since I knew a major contingent of them were indeed my fault - I used to create a folder for tracks I wanted to burn to CD or put on my Phone, I'd fill these folders with copies of the tracks, incase I lost the folder during a burn or a copy.
I decided I could get round this problem of my creating extra folders by simply deleteing the iTunes library and reimporting the organised iTunes music folder from the disk.
iTunes very helpfully allows you to delete the library but not remove the files from the disk if you don't want.
Great.
So I then copy all my tracks back in to the library, all 2251 of them. All good so far. That is until I find that actually when iTunes has emptied my Library (alright, when I emptied my Library) it also takes out the playlists. Not just my own created lists, but the "Purchased", "Most played" smart list everything. The lists are still there - just nothing in them.
This is extreemly annoying since the only way I knew how to find Dave Brubeck Take Five, was in the that Top 25 Played list, he was at the the top with something silly like 425 plays. I am not here ot absovle my dreadful taste, and anyway the maltese one likes that on a Friday, it is our end of the week song with a coffee.
What is more annoying is I have been extreemly fond of this Apple Script...
From Doug Adams, it allows me to import my CDs directly into a playlist. Something I find strangely lacking in iTunes' Library viewer. No Browse function doesn't do it, for one it includes podcasts etc.So I am a bit miffed, it is all my own fault obviously. I am just a bit annoyed that iTunes removes the links in the playlists without telling you that is what you're doing. On the plus side, the display of duplicate songs.... yeah well that is down... to 44, it is all my own fault obviously. I am left with must be 50 playlists with naff all in them... it is all my own fault obviously
UPDATE: I mentioned the other day about my smart playlist that helps me keep track of which podcasts I've listened too... well my little tidying up exercise has screwed the pooch on that too. Marvelous.
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