WT* is the matter with iTunes?

[delanvital]

This is trouble with iTunes if anyone can help....

I use it to manually upload music etc to my Video Ipod and my Ipod Nano which is fine. However if I delete a song from my music folder it doesn't get updated in iTunes.

Anyone know of a way to get it to refresh itself and re-scan the music folder?

Thanks
PEN

Without being sure, it seems like the same problem mentioned to begin with. Maybe try the alternative to iTunes?

[suicidal_monkey]

moan moan moan I rather like iTunes myself I find it's layout and browsability (is that a word? superior to winamp, and I've never considered WMP much good for anything really apart from very-standard video files. All the main downsides to iTunes/Apple that I know of have been touched on in this thread, namely:

1) it seems a little heavy on resources (but then you can stop its services and I'm not so sure it's that much more heavy going than some of the other programs mentioned for the level of functionality/graphics)

2) DRM - this I dislike, but as mentioned you can strip it from purchased music with one or two little programs if you are so inclined. Personally most of my music is still bought on CD, then ripped and the CD archived in a large box (the CD-case ends up in the bin though which is a bit of a waste). This is not an issue solely due to iTunes but of the music industry as a whole and is caused by the retailers of music, not the players. France almost took Apple to court, I hope it's not long before someone does!

3) The library seems unable to cope with you moving/renaming/deleting files externally to iTunes and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to manage this unless perhaps if you let iTunes become the way you organise your music. This is my biggest gripe with iTunes really once you work out a way past the restrictive drm rubbish.

[suicidal_monkey]

oh, and IMO iTunes has one of the best ID3 tag editors I have yet come across. Perhaps I need to try some of the other ones out there, but the iTunes version works very well for me I've had no problems with it mis-reading tags, the only issue perhaps being my disagreement with how "compilations" and composer/artist/orchestra situations are handled. I have to admit that I'm not sure I'd be able to think up another method that worked much better

[Bob]

oh, and IMO iTunes has one of the best ID3 tag editors I have yet come across. Perhaps I need to try some of the other ones out there

Yep, I definitely thing you need to try something else!  My favourite is ID3-TagIT (as mentioned in an earlier post), a really good (and free!) program!

The two main problems I had with iTunes, was that (as you also said), there is no way that it can figure out that you have moved files around/tagged/deleted/etc. out of iTunes, and that is just plain stupid that such an easy feature is not implemented :ranting2:

The other problem was that quite some of my music wasn't tagged (which never had been a problem with Winamp, since Winamp is smart and in those cases uses file/folder names so you still can search, find and play your files using the media library), but when I got this fixed, it was ok to use.
For this kind of tag editing, when there is no tags, ID3-TagIT is genius, since you can make various patterns composed from file and folder names and automatically tag whole albums at once! So this is a program I can really reccomend :thumbup: