Mike - You could do one of 2 tings. Either look on the file menu in Itunes, and click the 'add folder to library' option, and then use the tab key to get to where you can point to the location of your music folder. Alternatively, select all your music from it's folder, and copy and paste it in to the iTunes music folder. Also, in the iTunes music folder, is another folder called something like 'automatically add to iTunes library,' so if you paste your music in there, it will automatically get imported. ITunes gets a lot of bad press from blind people, but I find it ok these days, having listened to podcasts, and spent quite a lot of time figuring things out -
Andy----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael A Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 5:13 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: iTunes...I want it gone
Kevin,I have a back up of everything so I can probably just drop the back up directory into where iTunes is looking at the moment.iTunes is currently only showing stuff I have purchased online and not stuff I have ripped.My main gripe is the interface. But if dropping the backup into place means I can access my ripped stuff I might keep iTunes so I can burn CDs with playlists.I can probably switch off all the other stuff running in the background which checks for upgrades and the like. Stop Apple from resetting me to square one every time I look the other way.Mike On 22/06/2013 16:49, Kevin Lloyd wrote:Did you check where iTunes was set to access your music folder by going to preferences and then the advanced tab?Sounds like you have a very simple problem where iTunes is looking in the wrong place for your music library on your PC and just needs to be set correctly for all to be well.This of course is based on the assumption that the 20GB on your Ipod originally came from a library on your PC and not from another source.If this isn't the case, you can always load your library again by using the Add Folder option from the File Menu. Should take less than 5 minutes for 6,000 tracks to be loaded into the library...iTunes has done this to me twice where I've started it and found my library apparently empty but all I did was close iTunes down and restart. I assume you've done this as a minimum and restarted your computer.Regards. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Michael A Ray Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 11:09 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: iTunes...I want it gone Kevin, I spent a couple of hours this afternoon with Mo trying to get my iPod touch to synch to the PC. There is about 20GB on the iPod and just the purchases were appearing on the PC. In view of how Apple keep changing things and don't really want me to transfer my own stuff from my iPod back to my PC I'm going to take my backup of M4A files and make MP3s from them and trash iTunes. Anyone want to buy a 60GB iPod Touch? Mike On 21/06/2013 20:59, Kevin Cussick wrote:But if you do this you won't be able to have voice over speak your tracks. I don't know if this may have changed but this used to be the case. you need the dreaded I tunes to let voice over be ableto talk.On 21/06/2013 17:29, Michael A Ray wrote:Hello list, I'm sick of trying to use iTunes. Every time I launch it it seems different to the last time. And each new version seems less accessible or intuitive than the last. Today is the last straw, I have switched to the mini player and now can't get the full screen player back. And it seems not to see four fifths of the stuff I know is on my iPod.So my question is...is anyone else in the same bad place I am with it? Ihave 6000 tracks in iTunes format which I would like to convert to MP3 and don't know where to start. Help me kick Apple off my PC forever. Mike** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq-- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Ham Radio Call-sign: G4XBF, licensed since 1982 Don't just sit there, learn something Raspberry VI: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ NVDA, the best free screen-reader in the world: http://www.nvda-project.org/ ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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