Lucky for me I have the old iTunes on my old iMac where I keep my music.The two of them this Mac mini SHIT
won't talk to one another any more.I'm on 100/100 broad band with fiber,homesharing is a JOKE !
I have wireless and wire and airport  none is good.

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
Have you tried a test user to see whether the problem is in or out of your user folder?

 musik_knut wrote: 
I'm easily confused, but I thought you were on a PC and he was on a Mac. If so his 9.1.1 and yours might have different virtues, or bugs.

 swell_sailor wrote: 
 Yep,hoped that would fix things but oh nooo !

 swell_sailor wrote: 

I have 9.1.1...more iTunes garbage...

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
iTunes 9 messed a lot of people up. I was lucky, but I have a routine for updates that (I think) helps minimize the potential for crazy crap. Or I was just lucky. One or the other.

Anyway, 9.1.1 was supposed to address some of what 9 broke. Have you gone to 9.1.1 yet?

 

 HazzeSwede wrote: 

I hear ya....and give the jeans asswipe a shot for others. I never learn: don't upgrade iTunes...that makes it go from bad to worse everytime. My problem right now: I purchased 3 tunes and next thing I know, every damn tune I ever purchased is downloading...a slow process even with dsl...and I have no clue as to how to stop it...forget contacting Apple, they suddenly speak a tongue unknown to man when you ask about a problem...and then there's the world's worse quality control...but that's for another iTunes bitch session. I have a super geek coming out, the dude works miracles, to look at my whole system and strip out the uneeded and the garbage that micrsosoft likes to stuff into its systems, etc..

 musik_knut wrote: 
It got really fucked up the last upgrades,makes my mac mini freeze.
I got me tech tool today gonna work on this shit tomorrow,if it won't work
the mini will be trashed and I will buy me a ticket to LA and shoot that jeans GEEK !

 lunar1963 wrote: 
It could be a corrupt library. If you fire up iTunes while holding the shift key (I think that's how it works on a pc. I'm a Mac user) you can then select the option to create a new library. From this new blank library,  find  "add to library" (its under the file menu on a Mac) Navigate to your media/music folder, and select it. This will build a new library indexing to your current music location. Before doing this you'll want to uncheck the preference for copying files to the media folder just for this process. (although I think it won't matter since the music won't be moving either way....but just in case) 

upgraded to Windows 7 about two months ago...since that time, iTunes has been a piece of junk...anyone else notice a problem like this?

Two years ago I loved iTunes and Mac,today I would gladly shoot the whole thing down.
Internal GEEKCOMPANY that is what Apple is today
iTunes is just not working anymore.

 dmax wrote: 

It's a PC, so that might be slightly different. The iTunes help pages are not that bad, maybe I'm just too impatient because I get frustrated. Or maybe I just need a new computer, it gets too much for the old gal.

 lunar1963 wrote: 
no real idea. Google, of course.

If you're on a Mac, I use the File menu command, scroll to "add to library", and then navigate to the folder that has the data files in it. That creates the name of the files in the iTunes library. That should remain permanent - although the files still live in the same folder that you just found them in.

Have you tried that part too?

I'm stumped. 

Hey Dmax, I think I did everything you told me, changed settings, made sure the library was on my external, told iTunes where it was, changed the settings, etc.

And yet, every time I switch it off the contents are gone.
As I now have a folder which is pretty clean (no doubles, no wma) as a library it goes quicker then before, but willstill take a big part of the night (and the iPod needs to be reloaded every single time - also takes hours. Where can I find a step by step guide for dummies?

Edit: maybe it's this:

"Then from your menu, choose "library" and the sub-command "consolidate" the library."

So, I do that in iTunes? Have to find out what consolidate is in Dutch!

 BillnDollarBaby wrote: 
Then you want Super Remove Dead Tracks.

Doug's Applescripts are invaluable for getting things organized. Really great. 
I regularly use "use track prefix for track number" and then "remove n characters from front or back" to eliminate unnecessary tagging from things.

And there are plenty more there, obviously. "Proper English title capitalization" is another of my faves. 

 jadewahoo wrote: 
I live to serve.
 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Mine isn't empty, but since the great computer swap awhile back, I have a lot of "empty" listings... the name is there, but when you click, the system can't locate it and you have to manually, one by one, locate them.

 dmax wrote:  Better. Thanks dmax.

 jadewahoo wrote: 
It does, but the original language had people going "Milk crate? WTF?"

1) decide/prefer where you want your media files to live
2) make sure that the actual files - not simply a reference to them - exist in the chosen folder, and not scattered around your hard drive
3) ask the program to gather up the files, consolidate those copies into the chosen folder
 

 dmax wrote:That is really confusing. Can't iTunes just have a button that says 'Put all my music in one milk-crate and get rid of all duplicates. And don't effen forget where you put that milk-crate.'?