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Main Forums => Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap => Topic started by: 12AX7 on October 13, 2008, 08:42:47 PM
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As you may know, iTunes takes it upon itself to re-organize any media files on your comp to its liking, ie., it puts the song file in an album folder which is in an artist folder.
Which brings me to my question: does anyone know if iTunes makes a copy of each media file for it's "library"?? For example; MY library is on it's own physical drive in one big folder called MUSIC, and the files are named in the format: Artist - Song.mp3 . I don't really care what the album was; I can find that if I really, really NEED to for some strange reason.
Anyway, so if I were to install iTunes; and I go looking in Program Files > Apple > iTunes > and so on; am I going to find that I convieniently have another copy of my tens of gigs of music files in separate folders?
Surely it doesn't actually copy the whole thing, right?
...anyone?
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I THINK that they're just pointers to where the file actually is. I moved a whole bunch of my mp3s around a month ago and even though iTunes showed them in my playlist, it bitched about no longer being able to find the file after I did the move. I had to have it search the whole damn drive again. So, no, I don't think it'll copy everything and soak up another 10gb of data. I could be wrong, of course...
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Yeah what he said ^
It won't take up anymore space in the iTunes directory, just your music folder.
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Unless of course you decide to convert all your music to AAC. Which would not make any sense.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
Note: By default the Windows version of iTunes does not copy all of the music you add to your library to your iTunes Music folder. You can get iTunes to copy all of the Music in your library to your iTunes Music Folder (if you have enough hard drive space) by choosing Consolidate Library from the Advanced menu.
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Thanks, Mac! You sure know your Apples; being a pine one and all. :-P :lol: