iTunes oddity

[drcpunk]

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.

Comments

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing because the CD is currently not allowed to be sold, though soon they will be able to reprint and sell it again. (This happened because of things related to the Tolkein estate as I understand it.)

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

If that's the case, then iTunes has decided it can muck with my file structure even though I bought the CD legitimately.

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?

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Oh... wait.. it was in your files already. Huh. Okay, in that case, I have no idea. I don't really use iTunes much and tend to rip my songs via Windows Media Player (which is not really any better, and arguably worse, than iTunes. I just got used to doing it that way.)

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Yep. I used to use the Rio's software for much the same reason.

[jl8e]

No, this doesn't make any sense. iTunes neither knows nor cares about that.

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.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

That could be.

We checked and confirmed that I've long since selected the Show Hidden Files and Folders option for Windows Explorer.