Move Itunes To New Drive
[This is an iTunes question, not specifically an iPod question.]
I've been listening to MP3 blogs as podcasts, which is great until I decide I like a song and want to keep it. I can't for the life of me figure out how to tell iTunes to stop treating a particular file as a podcast and start treating it as it would a normal MP3.
No matter what I do, the song fails to show up in LIBRARY > Music and, if I save the file and reimport it, returns to LIBRARY > Podcasts. Not only is that not how I want to manage my music, but I'm worried that the file will get deleted in the normal course of clearing out old podcasts.
Things I've tried:
- changing the genre from 'Pocast' to something else in the Get Info dialogue
- cleaning up the ID3 metadata in ID3X
- deleting the podcast from iTunes and reimporting the file
- physically moving the file into the appropriate folder under iTunes Music
- duplicating and renaming the file in Finder and reimporting it
- consolidating my library
I've even inspected the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file for a field I could edit but don't see one that marks podcasts.
Is there no way to move a podcast into my permanent music library?
Thanks.
I've been listening to MP3 blogs as podcasts, which is great until I decide I like a song and want to keep it. I can't for the life of me figure out how to tell iTunes to stop treating a particular file as a podcast and start treating it as it would a normal MP3.
No matter what I do, the song fails to show up in LIBRARY > Music and, if I save the file and reimport it, returns to LIBRARY > Podcasts. Not only is that not how I want to manage my music, but I'm worried that the file will get deleted in the normal course of clearing out old podcasts.
Things I've tried:
- changing the genre from 'Pocast' to something else in the Get Info dialogue
- cleaning up the ID3 metadata in ID3X
- deleting the podcast from iTunes and reimporting the file
- physically moving the file into the appropriate folder under iTunes Music
- duplicating and renaming the file in Finder and reimporting it
- consolidating my library
I've even inspected the 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file for a field I could edit but don't see one that marks podcasts.
Is there no way to move a podcast into my permanent music library?
Thanks.
Move Itunes Library To Shared Folder Mac Os
Location of the Snow Daze app before (left) and after I consolidated my library and copied the iTunes folder to external storage (right). Now click the File tab and make sure the file path in the Location section points to the iTunes folder on the external drive, not to the old iTunes folder on your Mac. Jan 12, 2020 You can access the hidden Library folder without using Terminal, which has the side effect of revealing every hidden file on your Mac. This method will only make the Library folder visible, and only for as long as you keep the Finder window for the Library folder open.