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iTunes 4.7 is Pissing Me OffI cannot be the only person with a music library on an external drive. I simply cannot be. However, almost every time I start iTunes 4.7 it decides I really didn’t want my library on the external drive and wanted it in my home folder instead (On my 4GB-free drive. Right.). So every time I add music it gets added locally. Every time. Then I have to change the library path over and wait for the update and copy process. Then make sure they were copied. Then delete the local copies. And I still lose music, somehow. So I looked into it and it seems that if you start iTunes without your source drive connected it friggin resets to the default path, without warning and adds any new music there. No warning. None. No errors, no notice, no warning. Stupid. So, the solution: remove the iTunes 4.6 didn’t do this. No other version did. I can only presume they thought they fixed a bug but all they did was break it for me. Core feature: adding music. Broken. hissss Of course, this breaks something else. I used to be able to add music when away from my larger external drive and then consolidate when I got near it again. No longer. If I have the symlink in place then iTunes shows nothing as the chosen library folder if the drive is disconnected. And it won’t add music. Not entirely unexpected, but enough to piss me off when it worked before the update. “Complaint always comes back in an echo from the ends of the world; but silence strengthens us.” – The Father Brown Omnibus — G. K. Chesterton  |
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Re: MESE: I went back and updated the links in the last entry to reflect the server changes since I last worked on that (over a year ago).
Re: iTunes: It never did it in 4.6, but when it does it in 4.7 it automatically runs consolidate. It’s just that doing so for 55GB of music takes more than a few minutes on an iBook.
Wouldn’t it be nice to let an external harddrive behave like an iPod? When connected an additional entry shows up in itunes displayed the mp3s on that volume, you can create playlists and so on. Oh how I would love that… I tried to copy the special files from an iPod to a firewire drive but that didn’t work – I guess iTunes recognizes the iPod as a special device via its Firewire signature
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Did you report the bug? If not, don’t expect it to ever be fixed.
I just want to chip in and say that it DID do this in 4.6 I actually have a worse problem: I store my music on a network drive, and the sym link trick doesnt work since if the network drive isnt there before your home folder when you log in (which it isnt) the symlink gets corrupted and you have to manually repoint it toward the target. V.annoying.
iTunes 4.6 did this for me sporadically. I don’t remember quite what triggered it… it may have only been triggered when I was adding music without the library drive connected.
One trick I learned, though, after you get into this situation where you have two music directories, reconnect the source drive and change the music directory back to the external drive, use the “Consolidate Library” function in the Advanced menu. This puts everything into the library.
This has worked for me for 4.6. I haven’t tried it yet with 4.7, so I’ll update you if that changes.
I’ve been using the symbolic link trick for iTunes since the beginning. I keep my music on a separate partition of my hard disk. I guess I never thought to do it any other way. Notably, though, when I select the symlink of the folder at Home, iTunes ends up displaying the real folder location anyway.
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I also have my iTunes music on another drive but never had any problems with it — yet, but the drive is often plugged in. Then I usually have the organize/copy- options off, I activate it only for specific purposes, it may help, I don’t know.
I like the new Mini Player window but since I tried to enable its possibility to float (and now disabled it) I now have iTunes (full window or mini player) moving on all my Desktop Manager screens. Nothing is perfect, ever. Bugger.
And I also would like to check MESE, even if it has nothing to do in this thread…
I’m using iTunes 4.7 for 2 days intensivly (with iTMS music added) and luckily (would be very annoying) I haven’t experienced this yet. But, my external drive is always connected and on.
Merg
So, if I’m reading this correctly, your problem is that you have your default library set to an external drive that is not always connected and when the drive’s not connected, iTunes sets the default library back to your system music folder. I don’t think iTunes has ever been really smart about managing music on unmounted drives.
If you want to keep your music on an external drive, why don’t you just try off “copy music to iTunes folder when adding to library” radio button in the preferences? Yeah, you don’t get the nice artist/album folder hierarchy, but do you ever really go looking for a song in Finder after you’ve added it to iTunes?