iTunes advice

[Albert Bouchard]

Forgive me if this answer has already been given but iTunes lets you specify where you want your files to be stored. In the preferences menu under advanced you can specify where you want your files to be kept. It can be anywhere you want. 
Hope this helps,
Al

On Jul 8, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> On 07 Jul 2013, at 13:35 , Keith Henderson <khenders64 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> So my question...what the hell *really* controls the subdirectory structure and filename editing?  And why can't I keep my sh*t where I want/put it?
> 
> I think the short answer is that iTunes controls this, and your desire to control the location and form its directories is fundamentally at odds with (what was) Steve Jobs's desire to make everything increasingly seamless and invisible. (Witness, for example, iOS ....)
> 
> The Apple philosophy is (or at least seems to have been up to now) that you don't need to know where things "really" are (not that they are "really" there in the "file system" as such, but it's a familiar abstraction to long-time computer users). So while I can appreciate the desire of the individual to exercise detailed control over the traditional UNIX-style directories etc. that iTunes uses to place its UNIX-style data files, etc., iTunes was not designed with the interests of such a user in mind, and you might as well give up on it.  
> 
> For practical purposes, I think you have 2 choices regarding iTunes: either use it as-is, or not ;) and find some other media-organizer/player that annoys you less (though to get one that does _exactly_ what you want, you would probably have to write it yourself!).
> 
> Cheers,
> Carl
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