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Overwrite files in place via perl script
Authored by: unforeseen:X11 on Dec 15, '04 05:56:23PM
If the Original File cannot be found (via Inode), iTunes will look for Files at the last known location with the same filename. So, you could delete the Original File (Empty the Trash!) and put another File with the Same Filename into that directory and iTunes will get the new one (but will immediadetly rename a mp3 if the Song-Name specified in the ID3-tag is different to the filename).

I'm glad iTunes does that since I had to recover my whole Music-Library back from the iPod. Recreating the Filesystem iTunes had before saved me re-assigning some 2000 Songs. It didn't work with every song, but with the most. ;)

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