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Looks like I can finally ditch iTunes.
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<blockquote data-quote="Doug b" data-source="post: 964985" data-attributes="member: 59143"><p>That's odd. If there's anything I can say about iTunes is that it was rock solid for me. Never one hesitation, freeze or crash. Just hated every aspect of how it managed my music. </p><p></p><p>As far as iTunes flipping out and trying to re arrange things, that's also odd. The two methods should have nothing to do with one another. Please tell me how you have things arranged. To the letter, please. SB never tries to do ANYTHING with my library. I don't use the "Managed mode". Do you ? And if so, is there a particular reason why ? </p><p></p><p>The way I have always kept my music is as such: (look at screen caps)</p><p></p><p>The first is obviously the root music folder which is on my External HD (I don't keep any music, movies or photos on my main external HD)</p><p></p><p>The second shot shows bands in alphabetized order in 5 letter sub sections and the third shot shows what's in the A-F folder (well, a portion of it) </p><p></p><p>So all SB does is look this folder over and add each artist, album and song EXACTLY as I have it within those folders. No more, no less. And of course everything has id3 tags, so metadata is attached. </p><p></p><p>Songbird nor iTunes should be doing anything like what you're saying. Doesn't happen when I open iTunes. I bet if you turn off two options in iTunes this will stop. Go to preferences>advanced and un-check "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized" as well as "Copy files to iTunes media folder". (see last screen shot)</p><p></p><p>I can have both running at the same time with no interference at all. </p><p></p><p>Doug</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]11856[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]11857[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]11858[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]11859[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug b, post: 964985, member: 59143"] That's odd. If there's anything I can say about iTunes is that it was rock solid for me. Never one hesitation, freeze or crash. Just hated every aspect of how it managed my music. As far as iTunes flipping out and trying to re arrange things, that's also odd. The two methods should have nothing to do with one another. Please tell me how you have things arranged. To the letter, please. SB never tries to do ANYTHING with my library. I don't use the "Managed mode". Do you ? And if so, is there a particular reason why ? The way I have always kept my music is as such: (look at screen caps) The first is obviously the root music folder which is on my External HD (I don't keep any music, movies or photos on my main external HD) The second shot shows bands in alphabetized order in 5 letter sub sections and the third shot shows what's in the A-F folder (well, a portion of it) So all SB does is look this folder over and add each artist, album and song EXACTLY as I have it within those folders. No more, no less. And of course everything has id3 tags, so metadata is attached. Songbird nor iTunes should be doing anything like what you're saying. Doesn't happen when I open iTunes. I bet if you turn off two options in iTunes this will stop. Go to preferences>advanced and un-check "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized" as well as "Copy files to iTunes media folder". (see last screen shot) I can have both running at the same time with no interference at all. Doug [ATTACH=full]11856[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]11857[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]11858[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]11859[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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