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Oliver

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  1. Sorry if this has been covered (I'm a new member). I just wanted to share a solution I've dreamed up for preventing the accumulation of duplicate files. In this case I mean duplicate versions of the same recording by the same artist: the sort of duplication that occurs when a song exists on the original cd/album and any of the following: 1) greatest hits CD 2) movie soundtrack 3) multi-artist compilation disk Here's what I did ... 1) created three Playlist folders Playlist Folder 1 = *greatest hits Playlist Folder 2 = **soundtracks Playlist Folder 3 = ***other compilations 2) add the appropriate one, two, or three asterisks to the end of an album title. For example: "ZZ Top's Greatest Hits*". The presence of asterisks tells me to go to the album title in the corresponding playlist folder instead. 3) since I also have ZZ Top's "Eliminator" album, I deleted the "Eliminator" songs in the "ZZ Top's Greatest Hits*" album folder. 4) create a playlist in Folder 1 called "ZZ Top's Greatest Hits". Recreate the complete contents of ZZ Top's Greatest Hits by pulling in the songs from both CDs. The final playlist contains the complete contents of ZZ Top's Greatest Hits, in the order that the songs occur on that CD, but all the "Eliminator" tracks come from the "Eliminator" album folder, while the rest come from the "ZZ Top's Greatest Hits*" album folder. In the end, the songs "Legs" and "Sharp-dressed Man" only exist once in my library, rather than twice.
  2. I was gonna post this trick too, having stumbled upon it by accident. A tiny MP3 of silence acts as a container for the artwork. I call my file "zzz_ALBUM_ART.mp3", though I may change that to "999_ALBUM_ART" to keep them at the end when sorting my song title. As a PC user who is adamant about using iTunes with WAV files, this is a great solution to the album art issue. I double up on the artwork by also pasting the JPG file into each album folder and renaming it to "Folder.jpg". Windows Explorer then shows the graphic when I use thumbnail view. Finally, I maintain an archive folder where all the artwork files are stored in "artist-album.jpg" format.
  3. The methodology described here is certainly doable with respect to keeping all your actual music files, but what about the database? Since I've opted to retain the original WAV format (which doesn't allow tag embedding), I also back up the following files ....<br /> 1) the five files in the itunes root folder:<br /> i) iTunes Library.itl (critical!)<br /> ii) iTunes Music Library.xml (critical!)<br /> iii) iTunes Library Extras.itdb (optional)<br /> iv) iTunes Library Genius.itdb (optional)<br /> v) sentinel (optional?)<br /> 2) the entire "Album Artwork" subfolder (critical!)
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