Comments on: using iTunes without losing control of your music/files http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/10/01/using-itunes-without-losing-control-of-your-musicfiles/ Musing on the present. Reminiscing about the past. Posturing for the future. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:57:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/10/01/using-itunes-without-losing-control-of-your-musicfiles/comment-page-1/#comment-149490 Steven Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:56:26 +0000 http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/?p=2357#comment-149490 Great article, but I want to take this a step further... I think you may be the one to help: I want to maintain a master folder with all of my high-bit-rate audio files, some of which are WMA and other incompatible with iTunes formats. I want to let iTunes convert these files, but I don't want duplicate [low- and high-bit-rate files] in the same master folder. This means maintaining an iTunes music folder with copies of everything, including the original and the converted files. Then I need to go into the iTunes music folder and delete the high-bit-rate versions. Whew!!! To make this more tedious... when I download music from Amazon.com or elsewhere, i have to copy it to the iTunes and to the Master folders. Additionally, I want to maintain the folder organization structure, so it is simpler to compare the two. Sounds like this should be simple, but I have been doing all this for several years, and cannot seem to maintain synchronicity [thanks, Gordon Sumner] between the folders. What do you think? Asking the impossible? Thanks. Great article, but I want to take this a step further… I think you may be the one to help:

I want to maintain a master folder with all of my high-bit-rate audio files, some of which are WMA and other incompatible with iTunes formats. I want to let iTunes convert these files, but I don’t want duplicate [low- and high-bit-rate files] in the same master folder. This means maintaining an iTunes music folder with copies of everything, including the original and the converted files. Then I need to go into the iTunes music folder and delete the high-bit-rate versions. Whew!!!

To make this more tedious… when I download music from Amazon.com or elsewhere, i have to copy it to the iTunes and to the Master folders. Additionally, I want to maintain the folder organization structure, so it is simpler to compare the two. Sounds like this should be simple, but I have been doing all this for several years, and cannot seem to maintain synchronicity [thanks, Gordon Sumner] between the folders.

What do you think? Asking the impossible?

Thanks.

]]> By: Bill H. http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/10/01/using-itunes-without-losing-control-of-your-musicfiles/comment-page-1/#comment-145394 Bill H. Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:01:37 +0000 http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/?p=2357#comment-145394 You are one smart dude. Thanks for taking the time to write all of this. I understand perfectly. And I guess I am really anal too! You are one smart dude. Thanks for taking the time to write all of this. I understand perfectly. And I guess I am really anal too!

]]> By: Melissa http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/10/01/using-itunes-without-losing-control-of-your-musicfiles/comment-page-1/#comment-144157 Melissa Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:37:21 +0000 http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/?p=2357#comment-144157 Wow who would let there baby play in an old dirty tire? And did you see that backyard? Dang-- Wow who would let there baby play in an old dirty tire? And did you see that backyard? Dang–

]]> By: mercedez benz http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/10/01/using-itunes-without-losing-control-of-your-musicfiles/comment-page-1/#comment-144153 mercedez benz Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:59:05 +0000 http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/?p=2357#comment-144153 I second that... This is great for my iphone 3g synching issues due to the fact that I use a NAS to serve up all my music files. Now it can update accurately from that system. Woot! I second that… This is great for my iphone 3g synching issues due to the fact that I use a NAS to serve up all my music files. Now it can update accurately from that system. Woot!

]]> By: Mary http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/2008/10/01/using-itunes-without-losing-control-of-your-musicfiles/comment-page-1/#comment-144129 Mary Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:30:41 +0000 http://www.pharaohweb.com/blog/?p=2357#comment-144129 Thank you for the <a href="http://www.copytrans.net" rel="nofollow">CopyTrans</a> tip! I just try it and it really works. It's amazing! Thanks Thank you for the CopyTrans tip! I just try it and it really works. It’s amazing! Thanks

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