iTunes improvement
I recently watched the videos about Aperture 1.5 on Apple's website and I noticed a feature, which would improve iTunes a lot. I would really like to have the same library management options in iTunes, that are available in Aperture 1.5.
In Aperture's first release the library management was really bad, but Apple learned from the users' feedback and improved Aperture. The point is, that I don't want iTunes to manage my music library, because my music is splitted over several volumes. That's possible, but moving files around on my volumes is a real pain in the ass, because there are only two solutions to inform iTunes of the changes:
- Relink every moved file by hand in the library.
- Remove the moved files from the library and re-add them from their new location.
The second aproach is much easier, if your are dealing with a high number of files, but there is one pitfall: you loose the metadata attached to your files (your rating, play counter, etc).
In Aperture 1.5 there is an option to relink a tree of files with only a single mouse-click (watch the video) - and that's exactly what I want for my iTunes library.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you can do this already. Just uncheck the "Copy files to iTunes music folder" option in the importing tab.
IMHO, a much more useful option would be for iTunes to *monitor* the location for changes and update the library appropriately.
Geschrieben von adin 4 Stunden, 16 Minuten nach Veröffentlichung des Blog-Eintrags am 28. Okt. 2006, 23:20. Antworten
Thanks for your reply adin, I already have unchecked this option and use iTunes this way since the first day.
My point is that it should be easy (like in Aperture) to re-link files in the library, if they change their location on disk - this it currently not possible, only on a file by file basis.
Geschrieben von Arne 8 Stunden, 5 Minuten nach Veröffentlichung des Blog-Eintrags am 29. Okt. 2006, 03:09. Antworten