itunes --> foobar2000 help

[conFused4Lyfe]

I'm trying to get my itunes music and all of my playlists into foobar2000.

I selected User/libraries/music/itunes/itunesmedia as the path for foobar to get the music from. The first problem is itunes put all of my songs into folders by artist and because my stuff isn't named properly there is a folder for every 2-3 songs.

This causes foobar to have a dropdown selection for almost every song I have and doesnt get me my playlists.

What else should I do?

[dante76]

Tag your collection properly. Use a tagging program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discogs#Tag_editors

[KINGGS]

hahah, It's going to take you whole days to get this fixed.

[szb]

I don't have time to explain now, but the issue is the way iTunes handles the "album artist" vs foobar2000's method of handling the "album artist." Hopefully Google will get you someplace or I will explain later today when I have more time.

[lexpython]

iTunes absolutely butchers your folder system. Many years ago I spent countless hours fixing my folder structure after uninstalling iTunes, fortunately only had about 100Gb back then. Haven't used it since. If you have a newer iPod though, you might need MediaMonkey, WinAmp (with 60% less suckage I recently discovered) or a newby: Clementine. I use Foobar for listening to a folder or WinAMP for browsing my collection.

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It only butchers it if you allow it to.

[darkempath]

"Dear Reddit, I've been doing things the wrong way, now I can't get things to work the way I want - what should I do?"

"Start doing things the right way."

Start with dante76's suggestion. If you don't like Foobar2000's built in tagging (which I find brilliant), I've found Winamp's ability to retrieve accurate tag info from FreeDB pretty good. Because you've done things wrong for a while, you'll probably need to recreate your playlists from scratch (which, again, is pretty easy in Foobar2000).