How to set-up iTunes for a non-tech savy?


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Hello everyone,

 

I'm not familiar with Apple products but I recently recommended an iPod to my father since I figured it probably was the best in the market. My question to you Apple enthousiasts is: what is the best iTunes set-up for someone who is used to copy/pasting his music?

 

iTunes has a lot of options regarding syncing and interaction with source files. I'm wondering how best to set it up in such a way that changes made to the source map (new songs, change artist name) will also show be applied in iTunes and thus the collection on my father's iPod. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible for him and not get too caught up in Apple's ecosystem (the PC in question doesnt even have an internet connection).

 

Any tips for me?

 

P.S. Is there any benefit to having iTunes make a copty of every file within the iTunes map? It seems iTunes is converting every file (turning a 19GB collection in a 27GB collection and counting). Is this necessary?

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The key to having a good relationship with iTunes is correctly tagged audio files. If everything has correct artist, track name and album name iTunes should automatically create albums based on that and then basically that is it.. you can choose to sync your entire library or just specific playlists and albums.

 

If you don't have correctly tagged audio files you will end up with a mess and will require a lot of manual correction (or maybe there is an app for that?)

 

iTunes by default will copy the library rather than transfer it and organise it accordingly. I believe you can change a setting that stops iTunes from organising your music for you, but since you've already started i would just continue with what you are doing.

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^ that's good advice, especially about the correct tagging.  Once all  the files are imported it will probably be worth your time to go through the iTunes listings and tidy up the tagging (especially check that collections are tagged as such).

 

Once iTunes has made its well-organised copy you can delete the original files to reclaim the space.

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^ that's good advice, especially about the correct tagging.  Once all  the files are imported it will probably be worth your time to go through the iTunes listings and tidy up the tagging (especially check that collections are tagged as such).

 

Once iTunes has made its well-organised copy you can delete the original files to reclaim the space.

 

Thanks for the responses. I have some follow up questions.

 

iTunes didnt correctly import all my tags. So I have a lot of manual correcting to do. If I change it. Will iTunes also change the map/file structure it auto generated?

 

The thing is my father had a neatly organized (and tagged) collection (artist -> album -> song (incl. album & artist tags). Now the music collection in iTunes is a bit messy due to the wrong import. If iTunes doesnt manually fix this. Can I reorganize it myself? Will iTunes accept that?

 

P.S. The iTunes collection is over 35GB large. Is it normal for iTunes files to be much larger than their Original files?

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