re: #394 wlewisiii

1) Which version of iTunes are you using? There is a verison 10 just released on Mac, probably on Windows as well. Also ensure your iPod touch is up to date as well.
2) Open Preferences and go to the advanced tab. Make sure “Keep iTunes Folder Organized” is checked. This, I know, is for music albums and tracks, but may also work for your case. If you wish, the folders can be arranged under your iTunes media folder - check the next box down if you wish.
3) Use File, Add to Library … to add your files to iTunes. Apple may allow you to drag & drop but it’s rather brain damaged about it.

Hope this helps. The iPod Touch can be a useful gaget if you can get it to work the way you work.

No… that doesn’t work…

Yes I have Itunes 10 and a new Ipod Touch 8gig 2nd Generation (since the 4th generation is coming out real soon, the 2nd generation was on sale at Staples for 168, good deal).

I can drop and drag, but Itunes still looks at these tracks as just separate tracks, not all my audio is associated with an album or and artist etc.

Most of my stuff was ripped with simple tools, and all that fancy information that can be attached to audio tracks is not there, and Itunes really wants that info to arrange something.

That’s why on my hard drive, I have folders, with tracks from a certain album in that folder, but plopping them into Itunes doesn’t mean that Itunes suddenly knows that all those tracks should be part of the same “set.”

See my comment above, it seems that “playlists” are a sort of folder idea that I can group my own stuff under… I just tried that, it works fine, works for me.

I understand that Itunes is intent on you buying content from Apple and they make it hard to manage data yourself.

Thanks for the help.