iTunes for Windows 7.3

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  Version: iTunes for Windows 7.3

  "Horrible Issues"

  by Clintmax on July 17, 2007

  Cons: iTunes 7.3 completely re-arranged my music folder. Instead of opening my mp3 folder and seeing all of the songs alphabetically listed, iTunes created hundreds of little folders labelled with the artist names. Inside THOSE folders were MORE folders labelled with the album name, and then inside the album folders were the actual song files! If I had wanted my music listed that way, I would have set it up in that manner! I don't like software deciding FOR me!

  Also, the actual song file names were all changed as well! I used to have them named like this:

  "Van Halen - Jump"

  Now, that same file is simply named:

  "Jump"

  So far, I can find no way to re-insert the artist names in the file name, except to go in and manually re-type them all over again by hi-lighting the file, right clicking, selecting "Rename" and then typing in the artist name. This will take me a while since I have several thousand music files that need to be re-named.

  iTunes is GONE from my computer now, and it will NEVER return.

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• reply by: Stefan. on July 17, 2007

  When you install iTunes (any version), you are surrendering your My Music folder (Music in Vista) to iTunes. I had an experience similar to yours when I used an earlier version of iTunes. iTunes is meant for novices who have iPods. If you like the way your audio files are listed and named, if you don't want those files to be changed to the AAC format, and especially if you don't have an iPod, don't install iTunes. There are plenty of audio players for a computer that don't commandeer your music.

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