iTunes: too clever for it's own good

Right, I thought I'd start organising my MP3 directory into iTunes, organising playlists for different genres etc.

So I decide to - stupidly - import my Albums folder as a test (instead of dragging it over into a new playlist). What happens? I go back into the drive to discover iTunes has "reorganised" everything into separate folders for EACH artist, irrespective of the album. Thus, I now have about 300 folders instead of the (comparatively) mediocre 20 or so I had before.

Is there a way to revert it back to the way it was? I guess I could hook up my old PC drive and recopy them all over again, but it might be quicker than spending the next day or so re-reorganising the folders as to how they were before (if I can figure it out!).

yeah .. my beutifully organised collection got pwned by Itunes a we while a go .. not happy .. as its fux0red now ...

iTunes got the big boot ...

try this program for sorting out your mp3s:

http://www.mp3weasel.com/

written by a nzer too

I had this too.. it just gutted me

heh luckily i was warned - my collection wouldnt handle being organised in any logical way...

Yes its a bitch, Yes there is an option to turn if off. Ive let itunes organise mine now and id3 tagged everything before with a program that lets you tag by directory name.

yeah, like Daflash said, there is an option there to turn it off (on mac there is anyway!)

I think I found it the next day. Typical.

Gotta go get me a firewire card and transfer the shit back over from my old PC drive, as last time it took 5 hours...

iTunes still has the annoying gap between tracks though

does any music player play tracks without a gap? My work-around in itunes is to switch the crossfader on and set it to 0 seconds. There is that join command but it doesn't appear to work with music on the HD...?

Yeah, I use the 0 second crossfader trick too. It's about the best we can do.

Just seen that the 4.5 update has been released. Worth the 8mb download?

Yes you can convert all of wmv that you have borrowed from your pc mates to aac plus its got loseless compression about 50% size.

You know, you can switch off the automatic organiser if you don't like it.

I sadly found that out after it reorganised everything. I was just wondered initially if it was possible to reverse it...

But it doesn't look like it.

Windows media player plays without a gap, ipods have a second gap between track

Good thread, must avoid this happening when I get my iTunes to sort out my music