Comments on: Moving and Organizing iTunes Music Files

By: andy

andy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:05:18 +0000

WTF is wrong with Apple that they would just abort the whole program ??? They should at least let you skip that file or better yet, rename it and then continue. Jeez!

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:55:11 +0000

Hi. thanks for your clarification on this issue.
I need a little help however.
I don’t understand the most crucial part.

With wich program do I open the xml file and how do I find the first instance.

quote:”open up the file My Documents/My Music/iTunes/Itunes Music Library.xml and search for the location of the directory you’re moving things from. The first instance of this directory will be that associated with the file iTunes had trouble with”

I would be glad if someone could point that out to me.
Thanks a lot.
Marc

By: Seddy

Seddy — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:38:30 +0000

Thank you very much. I was afraid that there was no solution, but yours worked perfectly. And for the record out of 3000 songs I only had to change 2. It was quite simple to find the filenames in the XML file; I used text editor to do a search for ‘Locationfile://localhost/X’ where X was the remote disk.

By: Br.Bill

Br.Bill — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:37:40 +0000

Excellent tip. This and a little perl coding made my life much simpler.

By: Anand

Anand — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:41:33 +0000

Awesome. This worked! I tried another script thats been floating around out there with no luck. This took a while, but it got the job done!

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:50:13 +0000

Thanks for this tip. Since my music files were being consolidated from multiple different locations, I browsed through My Documents/My Music/iTunes/Itunes Music Library.xml until I saw a location that wasn’t the new location of my iTunes folder. The first file had a long title. As you suggested, I renamed the file on the old location. Then tried to play it in iTunes. It then asked if wanted to locate the file. I chose the shortened name and then went on to consolidate the library. This time it completed successfully.

By: bboy

bboy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:48:37 +0000

hi, i don’t completely understand what to do here. Can someone please kindly explain it to me or give me a simpler solution please? I’m begging. Thank you

By: RUss

RUss — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:09:59 +0000

This worked! Awesome stuff. DAMN YOU PANIC AT THE DISCO WITH YOUR RIDICULOUSLY LONG TRACK TITLES!

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:05:05 +0000

Thank GOD someone out there had an answer for me. I’ve been trying to figure out the consolidation problem for hours, and this has finally fixed it. Thanks!