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Moving from iTunes to JRiver: Need Advice Please
JimH:
Monroe. My dad was in the Army Air Corps.
The Kitten Abides:
Cool! We had a very good friend and music festival "family" member who lived in Monroe and who sadly passed a few years ago.
Okay, back to my iTunes import challenge . . . any insight (as I didn't see any via internet search) as to how to import other, older iTunes libraries which might help make up the difference? I think many of the songs are "ghost" tracks which are actually residing in those other, older iTunes libraries. ::)
JimH:
Make sure you selected them when you exported from iTunes. That creates the XML file that JRiver imports.
timwtheov:
One thing to consider in moving from iTunes to JRiver is that the libraries work differently regarding files. If I recall, iTunes forces you to have one folder somewhere that iTunes scans for audio files. JRiver allows you to have files in any folder on any drive. For example, I have many thousands of folders on many, many external hard drives that are all imported into MC.
What I'd do, then, is configure Import (Tools-->Import-->Configure Auto-Import), pick your 100 gb folder + choose any of the options there that you want, and click "Run Auto-Import Now" right underneath "Configure Auto-Import." That should find all the rest of your audio files. Then I'd re-import the playlists and see if they match up to what you had in iTunes (not sure if this will work or not, as all my playlists were created in MC, and I've never tried to import them from another application).
Hope that helps. I remember when I got out of the iTunes world that I had to think differently about how libraries and their files work in different applications. JRiver's A LOT more flexible.
Mr Swordfish:
Can you give a brief explanation of the difference between simply clicking "Import from iTunes" and "Import from iTunes database"?
I understand that you need to export an XML file to use the second option, but does it do anything different than the plain version.
I just used the plain version and while it worked, some things are a little wanky, e.g. missing artwork, compilation albums are imported as a bunch of single-track albums, the "sort by" field for artists didn't come over (I sort artists lastname, firstname but probably won't bother to fix them all up if it doesn't import - no big deal)
It's early enough to just start over and use the XML import method if that does something for me. Thanks.
Thanks.
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