So, I've got my music collection on my computer via iTunes. And, I was trying to find a song from The Starlit Jewel, by the group Broceliande.
iTunes has 2 listings for this group, one with a diacritical mark and one without. One has three of the group's CDs. The other shows two. 3 + 2 = 5.
I poked around in Windows Explorer, which has the same two listing in the iTunes music folder. That is, two subfolders for the group, one with the diacritical, one without. Both list the same 4 out of 5 albums. Neither lists The Starlit Jewel.
I highlighted a song on the CD in iTunes and asked iTunes to kindly show me where it lives. iTunes thinks it lives in the group folder with the diacritical, in the iTunes music folder, and it showed me this in Windows Explorer. But, when I open up Windows Explorer on my own, it does not show the album. I have no idea why.
iTunes has 2 listings for this group, one with a diacritical mark and one without. One has three of the group's CDs. The other shows two. 3 + 2 = 5.
I poked around in Windows Explorer, which has the same two listing in the iTunes music folder. That is, two subfolders for the group, one with the diacritical, one without. Both list the same 4 out of 5 albums. Neither lists The Starlit Jewel.
I highlighted a song on the CD in iTunes and asked iTunes to kindly show me where it lives. iTunes thinks it lives in the group folder with the diacritical, in the iTunes music folder, and it showed me this in Windows Explorer. But, when I open up Windows Explorer on my own, it does not show the album. I have no idea why.
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I was resistant to using iTunes to begin with, and I don't like the way it stores songs. Is there any alternative for the same price (free) that's at least as good?
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It sounds like the directory's been marked as invisible in Windows, and I don't know whether iTunes or Windows might have done that, nor why, though I'd guess an iTunes bug.
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We checked and confirmed that I've long since selected the Show Hidden Files and Folders option for Windows Explorer.
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I did a search on "elvish" as part of a file name, this being part of the title of one of the songs, "Elvish Lullaby". I searched the C: drive, and I found only the WMA file from 2006, back when I used the Rio as my listening device.
mnemex had me open iTunes and click on the song in question. It insisted that it was in a folder named The Starlit Jewel, in the subfolder for the group Broceliande that had the diacritical mark over the i. In fact, because of the confusion about where and whether I had the CD ripped by iTunes, I had 2 copies, one from December 2008, and one from April 2009.
But, when I opened Windows Explorer on its own, it insisted that I did not have the Starlit Jewel folder. And then, when I clicked on the song in iTunes, it now insisted that no such folder existed. I am baffled.
I understand about the different artists methhod of categorizing, having come across it on various convention CDs, but evidence suggests that this isn't what's going on here.