iTunes 9 Focus: iTunes Media organization

Before I do this, can some answer if it nest the media folders properly? Music should be Artist > Album > Track. Tv Shows should be TV Shows > Title > Season > Episode.

Sorry about that last totally off-topic comment. 1password had actually remembered previous post andre-ntered it in its entirety.

[Note to TUAW: is there a way I can delete an erroneous post? Or can you do it for me?]

Anyway, on to the subject at hand: I believe I found a serious bug: it appears all my album artwork got left behind in the old folders! Did anyone else experience this?

I live northwest of Boston MA, and I cannot drive the 14 miles between my home in Concord and my office in Burlington while on the phone without the call dropping.

Since I had the same experience on a business trip to Silicon Valley during the time of all the controversy about the reliability of some of the 3G chipsets, I walked into the Apple Store in Burlington and got them to replace my iPhone. No joy; it's definitely the network. I have no choice but to turn off 3G if I don't want a call to drop while I'm commuting.

I've also had the experience where, when using the GPS, the map stopped updating while on 3G. Turning off 3G allowed the map to start updating again.

For now, I've got 3G turned off. I turn it on only if I need internet access when there's no WiFi available. I figure soon enough that either AT&T will get their 3G network up to snuff, or WiFi will be so ubiquitous it won't matter.

Thanks, TUAW

I did the Organize Library update, and hey! presto - iTunes took about half of my music files, which are on a NAS drive attached to my Airport Extreme, and moved them into a new Music folder. And left the rest behind. There's no way to uncheck 'Upgrade to iTunes Media Organization'. So I now have to consolidate thousands of files manually.

Oh, joy.

I've had the same issues as several other commenters. It did successfully reorganise my content into the new folder system, but it left behind hundreds of folders. These folders contained nothing but album art and desktop.ini files. The desktop.ini files were created by Windows (when I first got my Mac, I copied my iTunes library across from my Windows PC, which brought along these files). I deleted the folders and iTunes continued working normally.

I also manually renamed the "iTunes Music" folder to "iTunes Media", because this wasn't automatically done. Renaming it didn't cause any problems.

The feature worked well for me, on a library of ~50GB. The only stragglers were files that weren't actually in iTunes. Presumably I'd deleted them from iTunes, but hit the "keep files" rather than "delete files" button when asked. So, nice little bonus clean-up feature there for me.

And, unlike some of you guys, all my PDFs stayed with their respective albums just as they should've. Some were iTunes purchases, some weren't.

The one pain in the backside is that I have a few releases from the iTunes store with PDF booklets, which the organisation decided to leave behind in the root directory under the Artist/Album folders. Top.

Wish I had never read this article, now spending a long time manually going through all the remaining folders containing odds files such as pdf, mp3 & some previous stuff copied from windows as itunes rejected this stuff during the process. It would be nice to assume I could delete these folders but do not want to lose anything! Would advise a wait for the next update to make this option fool proof...

Why do people even let itunes organize? I have full control over names, etc, I just ask it to check my music folder on my shared external every once in a while and it will add whatever files were missing.

OMG what a mess! I regret pressing this button :(

It appears that any track that had a track number at the beginning of it's file name had the number stripped and was subsequently COPIED. Bleah.

I could just delete the old files, but there are hundreds. I'm going to have to be careful. :(