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Jaikoz making iTunes files

#1

I’m still getting used to Jaikoz so I don’t know if I missed the section on this but does Jaikoz have to make a list in iTunes every time I autocorrect files? I’ve got all my music on an external drive and don’t really use iTunes. I noticed my hard drive space was filling up and it wasn’t until I went into iTunes I realized jaikoz had created playlists with all the tracks I have analyzed. I think it has also imported them into iTunes thus creating a copy, taking up hard drive space. Could someone clarify if this is what is happening, if there is a way to stop this, and how I can delete the files from iTunes on my computer.

Thanks!

#2

Hi, yes that is the default on OSX installations because so many Mac use iTunes and find this a useful feature.

But you can disable this easily using Preferences:Save:iTunes

(BTW the reason its filling up your disk space is that by default iTunes makes a copy of every file added to it, if you ever want to use iTunes without filling up disk space you can by disabling Preferences:Advanced:Copy Files to iTunes Media library see http://jaikoz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/what-is-point-of-itunes-copy-files-to.html )

#3

Hi Paul,

I appreciate you getting back to me. I turned off Automatically update iTunes library. Should I turn off save genre’s in iTunes friendly format as well?

#4

Not necessarily, that option ensure all id3 genres are stored as text rather as numbers if the genres are from the extended list, and there are a number of other applications other than iTunes that don’t understand extended genres.