Digitising your music collection

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by kagenaki koe

there is a field for ARTIST and a field for ALBUM ARTIST (under get info). itunes organizes it on the hard drive by ALBUM ARTIST (if that field is filled) otherwise it uses ARTIST (except when songs have PART OF A COMPILATION clicked...more on that later). You can leave the ARTIST field by itself (ex. Black Sun Empire and Evol Intent) and type in Black Sun Empire in ALBUM ARTIST (this way the primary album artist will have that album under it's folder...it won't show up under Evol Intent however). If it's an actual compilation, if PART OF A COMPILATION is clicked (or YES), the album will show up in a folder called COMPILATIONS (or Various Artists depending on what is listed in ALBUM ARTIST). I personally prefer to have compilation songs organized with the actual artist(s), so i have PART OF A COMPILATION clicked off (or NO) and i make sure to leave ALBUM ARTIST blank (this ensures that the album gets filed under the artist). For guest vocalists etc, i remove their name from the artist field and add their name to the song title instead (or anywhere as long as it isnt the artist or album artist field). ex. you don't want multiple folders for Tricky feat. Martina Topley-Bird, Tricky feat. Alison Moyet, Tricky feat. Terry Hall,..you can just have it under Tricky since he's the main artist.




yes. there's also a "automatically find artwork feature", but sometimes it doesnt grab the right artwork. i think there are artwork grabber apps you can use outside of itunes (but i've never used them).



if you want files to reside on the external, then the external needs to be plugged in to use those files. if you wanted them to reside on your main drive, in preferences under ADVANCED, click on COPY FILES to itunes media folder. you can also specify where the itunes media folder resides (default is in your user/main drive...but you can have it link to an external...the etxernal ALWAYS has to be plugged in for you to use files on it)

just change the album name on all of them

Or you could just use windows media player and drag and drop