What did iTunes do??? (Wouldn't import folder 'til I tried something funny)......

[redgtxdi]

D/l'd Sharepod. ----> Ripped music from shuffle. --------> Put into "My Music" folder in XP.

Used the "Import my music to iTunes" tick-box in Sharepod, but it didn't appear to work.

Tried to import manually since the music definitely showed up in my "My Music" folder.

Tried several more times individually, w/in albums, etc. but nothing appeared to work.

Took one of the album folders, dragged it to desktop & tried to import just *that* folder thinking maybe Jobs had put up a sharepod block & all of a sudden BLAM!!!!! All the music, including albums, titles, etc. etc. all showed up in the music library.

Anybody know why it did that?? (I'm assuming iTunes had a VERY......as in 15 minutes.....delayed response to one of the earlier attempts?)

TIA

 

[TheStu]

Something else going on with your computer? Some sort of hard drive hang up? I haven't used iTunes for Windows for about 4 years, at least not as my syncing/importing system, so... can't tell you much.

 

[redgtxdi]

No, everything appears to be working quite well actually.

I just made it do it again. Pulled a bunch of songs off of another iPod in the family using sharepod again & iTunes wouldn't "add new folder" of ANY of the stuff (subfolders or otherwise) to the music library.........UNTIL.....I copied one of the folders to the desktop, tried to add *that* folder and then just like the first time-----SHAZAAAAAAM!!!! All the albums popped up in the itunes music library. (with the one I copied to desktop being doubled-up in iTunes again)

WEIRD!!!

Plenty of others have the same prob, but no solutions...(for YEARS).....

http://forums.ilounge.com/itunes-mac-pc/173935-add-file-folder-library-does-not-work-itunes-7-a.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...rK6_1uxz7hR.;_ylv=3?qid=20091204150554AAUPz0g <----AND ACTUALLY, THERE ARE TONS OF THIS SIMILAR QUESTION IN YAHOO'S DATABASE WITH NOBODY HAVING AN ANSWER.

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-293802.html <-----OH YA, THERE'S THE "JUST BURN EVERTHING BACK TO CD's, THEN RE-IMPORT" SOLUTION......LOL!!!!!!!!

And googling just nets more & more results, but again.....nobody's got an answer for what's going on.

????????????

 

[Ka0t1x]

I've never once had a problem adding music to the library in iTunes. Windows or Mac. But I've never used the default music folder, I've always disabled copying files to the directory and using separate music folders.... I really just drag/drop stuff onto the Library side panel.

If you're adding to the My Music directory it could take a while for iTunes to recognize changes to the folder, it won't be instant, because the program would have to keep scanning the directory causing a system slowdown.

Also keep in mind when you add stuff to your library iTunes tries to find album art and track info from the web, and process the track.

 

[redgtxdi]

I've never once had a problem adding music to the library in iTunes. Windows or Mac. But I've never used the default music folder, I've always disabled copying files to the directory and using separate music folders.... I really just drag/drop stuff onto the Library side panel.

If you're adding to the My Music directory it could take a while for iTunes to recognize changes to the folder, it won't be instant, because the program would have to keep scanning the directory causing a system slowdown.

Also keep in mind when you add stuff to your library iTunes tries to find album art and track info from the web, and process the track.

FIRST (before I babble below) can you explain what you mean in the bolded section above so I can play with that too? (TIA)

And this makes a lot of sense (though it still seems weird as I don't know that it would ever happen if I didn't do the "copy to desktop, then retry" thing) because iTunes seems to get the message in hindsight when everything suddenly *appears*.

However, I still think that it's taking too long to do it so I'm still thinkin' there's something weird going on. Perhaps Sharepod's command line for "import into iTunes" is causing a conflict?? Maybe I'll try one without that and THEN try either "adding" or even dragging/dropping.

 

[TheStu]

FIRST (before I babble below) can you explain what you mean in the bolded section above so I can play with that too? (TIA)

And this makes a lot of sense (though it still seems weird as I don't know that it would ever happen if I didn't do the "copy to desktop, then retry" thing) because iTunes seems to get the message in hindsight when everything suddenly *appears*.

However, I still think that it's taking too long to do it so I'm still thinkin' there's something weird going on. Perhaps Sharepod's command line for "import into iTunes" is causing a conflict?? Maybe I'll try one without that and THEN try either "adding" or even dragging/dropping.

If you hit CTRL+, you can bring up the preferences for iTunes and under Advanced change the location that iTunes saves music to, or whether it does at all.

So, you were copying the files to where iTunes stores things instead of copying them into iTunes? iTunes doesn't watch folders (which is dumb), so that would explain the delay. If you copy the files into iTunes, the program, then you might get faster results.

 

[redgtxdi]

Actually I left everything untouched.

Sharepod actually gives you that tick box for "Import music to iTunes library" which is ticked by default and I left it that way.

Sharepod also has the Windows "My Music" folder destination selected by default, so I left that alone too (figuring they know best).

As for iTunes, I didn't touch anything there either. Whatever iTune's default destination is is where it's all at cuz I have no clue.

If it's best to change 1 or more of the above, I'd gladly do it.

(P.S. Am I assuming correctly that if left default and music is being added from anywhere on the local system, that iTunes won't duplicate the file & put it somewhere within itself------like it would if you d/l'd music-------, but actually just leave the files where they are & only references them within iTunes??.....((i.e. to save hard-drive space))

 

[Ka0t1x]

I think you did everything correctly, you probably needed to restart iTunes for it to see the files (because it doesn't watch the directory). iTunes probably didn't copy the files because they were in the correct location.. I've never used SharePod but as a developer if the option is there it should be smart enough to break it down into how iTunes would arrange the data. The delay could have been from the processing iTunes does on files added to your library.. on OS X it will display a dialog box with a progress bar.. I don't know how many files you added but it could have happened without you knowing it.

You can right click a file in iTunes and 'Get Info'.. it will show you where the source file is located.

You could probably go about setting up a folder action so that it will add each file to the iTunes library when new files are added. (Not quite sure how to do this on Windows though... and its more of a hack anyways)

As for the iTunes folder. I use an SSD as my boot drive.. so having GB's of data on the boot drive wouldn't be a good idea.. I have a secondary drive that I use for my media drive. I just drag my whole Albums folder onto iTunes and it does its thing using the actual file location on the secondary drive.

 

[F3rny]

Something else going on with your computer? Some sort of hard drive hang up? I haven't used iTunes for Windows for about 4 years, at least not as my syncing/importing system, so... can't tell you much.

I actually had the same problem. To be honest, I actually had to look at this thread and do your whole take one file to desktop, and then move that single file to the iTunes. I would like to figure this one out, though this thread is fairly old. My system is running windows 7, with the latest version of itunes, as well as SharePod 3.9.7.0