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Easily clean up an iTunes library
Authored by: charles2003 on Jul 22, '03 07:29:11AM

I personally often do this to get a clean Library. It's fast.

1. Go to the Library of iTunes.
2. Do a COMMAND-A (Select All)
3. Delete everything - When you get the message saying do you want to delete the files -- ANSWER NO.
4. Then drag the folder with all your MP3 files unto a newly created playlist (or just into the library.)


WARNING: This will make all your previously created playlists empty. This dosn't bother me, since I'm constantly creating new playlists. I don't feel I need to retain old ones, so I just delete all the old ones and make news ones as needed. However, if you have a few "favorite" playlists, you'll not want to do clean you library this way.

NOTE: I also prefer not to keep my MP3 files in the iTunes folder. I'm not sure if that makes any difference.



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