In the main Library just hitting delete should work. In a playlist use opt-delete. I believe these only work, though, if you have set iTunes set to keep the iTunes Music Folder organized itself. Otherwise iTunes does not touch the original files.
You can right or control click an item in iTunes and select show in Finder and then delete the file there. You’ll have to go back and remove the reference from the iTunes Library as well.
I don’t do anything with audio outside of iTunes so I’ve always let it handle the organization at the file level. It’s does what I would do anyways: library/artist/album. But I have over 12,000 tracks and file structure is a completely inadequate way to manage them. In iTunes I use ratings, genres and smart playlists to make the whole thing manageable.
What I really want in iTunes is some ability for tagging/keywords and some way to move iTunes specific metadata (like ratings) between libraries.
(Completely off topic but still about music: did you ever see Grimskunk in your Montréal days? We and saw them at a club last Friday reliving our youth.)
Now that I know how to write scripts to control iTunes using global hotkeys, I’m thinking I should bite the bullet and let it control the organization of my music library.
Tagging and metadata export would be very nice and are some of the other things that are stopping me from trusting iTunes whole hog.
On the GrimSkunk side I’ve decided I’m very disappointed in myself for having lived in Montréal for four years and never having seen them. Molly, my lovely wife, managed to see them in them in Edmonton while I, in Montréal completely missed out.
At this point I now have their entire discography (available on iTunes, eMusic, and Bittorrent) and have decided it’s excellent coding music.
On topic, the only metadata thing I care about that I struggle with with iTunes are ratings. iTunes handles all ID3 tags just fine as far as I know. I have an AppleScript that dumps the rating to the Grouping tag and another that puts it back again. So when I sync my libraries at the file level I can transfer the ratings.
She’s doing really well. Married. Galavanting across Europe. Sounds perky :-)
There are times I’m disappointed with all the bands I missed in Montreal… oh well… I’ll send Alex to McGill, and we’ll go listen to bands together, and I’ll complain about how loud it is and the music kids listen to these days.
I have to write/google a ratings script to sync the ratings between home and work. I’ve added too much crap to our library of late and need to get rid of the lower rated stuff.
In the main Library just hitting delete should work. In a playlist use opt-delete. I believe these only work, though, if you have set iTunes set to keep the iTunes Music Folder organized itself. Otherwise iTunes does not touch the original files.
Drat. I’m not sure I want to let iTunes mess with with my music organization.
You can right or control click an item in iTunes and select show in Finder and then delete the file there. You’ll have to go back and remove the reference from the iTunes Library as well.
I don’t do anything with audio outside of iTunes so I’ve always let it handle the organization at the file level. It’s does what I would do anyways: library/artist/album. But I have over 12,000 tracks and file structure is a completely inadequate way to manage them. In iTunes I use ratings, genres and smart playlists to make the whole thing manageable.
What I really want in iTunes is some ability for tagging/keywords and some way to move iTunes specific metadata (like ratings) between libraries.
(Completely off topic but still about music: did you ever see Grimskunk in your Montréal days? We and saw them at a club last Friday reliving our youth.)
Never saw Grimskunk. :-(
Now that I know how to write scripts to control iTunes using global hotkeys, I’m thinking I should bite the bullet and let it control the organization of my music library.
Tagging and metadata export would be very nice and are some of the other things that are stopping me from trusting iTunes whole hog.
Oh… BTW Paul, Miss Ska just emailed me out of the blue.
Way cool! How’s she doing!
On the GrimSkunk side I’ve decided I’m very disappointed in myself for having lived in Montréal for four years and never having seen them. Molly, my lovely wife, managed to see them in them in Edmonton while I, in Montréal completely missed out.
At this point I now have their entire discography (available on iTunes, eMusic, and Bittorrent) and have decided it’s excellent coding music.
On topic, the only metadata thing I care about that I struggle with with iTunes are ratings. iTunes handles all ID3 tags just fine as far as I know. I have an AppleScript that dumps the rating to the Grouping tag and another that puts it back again. So when I sync my libraries at the file level I can transfer the ratings.
She’s doing really well. Married. Galavanting across Europe. Sounds perky :-)
There are times I’m disappointed with all the bands I missed in Montreal… oh well… I’ll send Alex to McGill, and we’ll go listen to bands together, and I’ll complain about how loud it is and the music kids listen to these days.
I have to write/google a ratings script to sync the ratings between home and work. I’ve added too much crap to our library of late and need to get rid of the lower rated stuff.