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

[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.