{"id":1743,"date":"2018-12-01T17:46:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/01\/why-the-hell-cant-apple-fix-itunes\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:46:13","slug":"why-the-hell-cant-apple-fix-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/blog\/why-the-hell-cant-apple-fix-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the HELL can\u2019t Apple Fix iTunes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of times that the iTunes library file has corrupted on my iMac is insane!  I have a very large iTunes library.  It consists of all the CDs, LPs, Cassette Tapes, and even some Reel-to-reels that I own, and have converted to digital. The library is about 23,000 songs and well over a thousand albums.   With a library of this size, I have to have it stored on an external NAS, because I also have over a 1,000 TVs episodes and movies too.  My NAS is a Drobo5N with 18TB of storage on it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the issues that come up periodically in iTunes, and everyone of them drives me totally nuts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, iTunes has never really done a good job of supporting NAS drives (or really any external drive, as I had these same issues when I had an Drobo directly attached to the iMac).<\/li>\n<li>Second, every so often, iTunes loses track of where a song is.  This is shown by a small (i) symbol next to the item.  If I try to play an album with songs with this symbol it will skip those songs.  If I go in and double click on the song title, iTunes magically remembers the location and the song will play.<\/li>\n<li>Third, duplicate songs. If you ever go in and tell iTunes to consolidate your library, it will kindly duplicate the songs into it&#8217;s own file hierarchy, leaving the original there to.  This makes sense from a safety perspective (not deleting the originals, BUT it will then (at times) add the duplicates back in. I think this is a legacy issue when you tell iTunes to monitor a directory.<\/li>\n<li>Forth, album art.  I have spent a TON of time making sure that all of my album art actually matches the Albums I have.  So if I converted an LP to iTunes, I take pictures of the LP so that I can match it up.  The number of times that I&#8217;ve loaded my library only to see the Gray background with the Musical notes in the picture instead of my nice Album art is beyond count.  I have used Doug&#8217;s wonderful scripts to actually put the album art into the songs, but since iTunes loses track of some of the songs, it doesn&#8217;t always work.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Meta Data.  I like to sort my albums in a very specific way. To that end, I have changes sort artist, sort album, etc.  but it doesn&#8217;t seem to stick there either.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been using the iTunes Match service (which I love!) so that I can have my music library on all my devices when I travel, so I would really appreciate it if Apple would spend SOME time and actually fix bugs in iTunes, instead of tweaking the UI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of times that the iTunes library file has corrupted on my iMac is insane! I have a very large iTunes library. It consists of all the CDs, LPs, Cassette Tapes, and even some Reel-to-reels that I own, and have converted to digital. The library is about 23,000 songs and well over a thousand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,475,257],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apple","tag-itunes","tag-macos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aMa8-s7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}