Hi all - Please excuse what may appear to be a rather stupid question to some. I have an i-Pod on which I have about 2000 tracks stored, collected over the last year or so. For whatever reason, I originally elected NOT to have i-Tunes organise my music, and have most of the tracks stored alphabetically directly in the 'i-Tunes Music' folder by artist name, album name and track title e.g. Barry White - The Collection [UK] - Walking In The Rain (With The One I Love.m4a). In other words, I dragged the tracks from their parent folders (In this case it would have been from a folder titled 'The Collection [UK]' which in turn would have been in a folder called 'Barry White') into the main i-Tunes folder).
I believed that it would be easier to back up all my tracks onto an external HDD doing it this way, but now think this was not such a good idea, after all, and would like to let i-Tunes sort it out in future.
My question is, if I now elect to let i-Tunes take control, what is the likely outcome for my existing library? Is it too much to hope for that everything will be sorted out as if I hadn't interferred in the first place, or do I run the risk of my library turning into an unholy mess that will takes hours of sorting out before I can use it again?
If anyone has done this themselves I would be most gratefull if you could share your experience - good or bad! - with me!
Many thanks.
Malc
I believed that it would be easier to back up all my tracks onto an external HDD doing it this way, but now think this was not such a good idea, after all, and would like to let i-Tunes sort it out in future.
My question is, if I now elect to let i-Tunes take control, what is the likely outcome for my existing library? Is it too much to hope for that everything will be sorted out as if I hadn't interferred in the first place, or do I run the risk of my library turning into an unholy mess that will takes hours of sorting out before I can use it again?
If anyone has done this themselves I would be most gratefull if you could share your experience - good or bad! - with me!
Many thanks.
Malc