13 February 2011

Clearing up iTunes

I've recently got an iMac, which has a much bigger hard disk that my old MacBook, so I decided it was time to fully sort out my iTunes account and folder. iTunes is fairly easy to sort out itself, you just let iTunes sort out the music folders, find duplicates etc. However, I did get into a bit of trouble when deleting some music from my library, I was sure that iTunes usually asked you if you wanted to move the files to the trash, as well as removing them from iTunes, but this time it didn't, I'm not sure if it was how I was deleting, or a change to iTunes I didn't notice until it was too late. This left me with the annoying (to me anyway) situation of files in my iTunes folder that I didn't want and that weren't in iTunes, after some searching on apple.stackexchange.com I came across the Music Files Not Added v2.0 script at dougscripts.com where there are loads of other helpful scripts for tweaking iTunes, so if you're having trouble with your iTunes library, or just want to tidy it up a bit, check it out.

Also I can't say enough good things about the Home Sharing feature added in version 9 of iTunes, it makes managing libraries on multiple computers almost seamless.