Advanced iTunes Issues
Feb. 25th, 2007 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkSomebody gave me a CD with a novel on it in MP3 format (many, many files, with folders inside of folders). I'm trying to get it into iTunes so I can download it onto an iPod. That's not too hard. But I'm being picky. I DO NOT want it in my iTunes music library, I want it to show up in my Podcasts listings. I can't find a way to make that happen.
There are a lot of tricky little settings buried inside the iPod preferences list that sound like they're supposed to allow this, but I just can't get it to work.
Following the instructions in the really voluminous iTunes Help, I went into Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General and changed the default import directory to ...\iTunes Music \ Podcasts instead of ...\iTunes Music. Then, I choose "Add a Folder" to import the first 16 files. iTunes obligingly copies the folder of MP3s into \iTunes Music\Podcasts. But in the iTunes pane, my novel still shows up in the Music Library and does not appear in the Podcast listing.
Grrrrr. What's the point of importing to a specific folder if the software doesn't DISPLAY it in the folder you imported it to????
There are a lot of tricky little settings buried inside the iPod preferences list that sound like they're supposed to allow this, but I just can't get it to work.
Following the instructions in the really voluminous iTunes Help, I went into Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General and changed the default import directory to ...\iTunes Music \ Podcasts instead of ...\iTunes Music. Then, I choose "Add a Folder" to import the first 16 files. iTunes obligingly copies the folder of MP3s into \iTunes Music\Podcasts. But in the iTunes pane, my novel still shows up in the Music Library and does not appear in the Podcast listing.
Grrrrr. What's the point of importing to a specific folder if the software doesn't DISPLAY it in the folder you imported it to????
