Suh-weet. I just noticed I have *2* Firewire ports. The one on the back of the PC is six pin, so my iPod will connect to that from now on, when it's not otherwise occupied.

Okay, now that the thrill has somewhat subsided:

1. I hate how ITunes has 'organised' my ripped files (on the hard drive). Compilations are broken up as every track is stored under the artist (or some concatenation thereof) that performed it. Is there any middle ground? MMJB let you pick the storage hierarchy in more detail than I can find here.

2. Auto-tagging. Does iTunes do that? MMJB would look up against the filename of an already ripped file in the CDDB and see if it could find more tag information.

edit: damn, I phrased these poorly

ita, I am not sure I understand the first question, since my migraine meds have made my brain foggy. If I want to organize my library/playlists by album, all I have to do is click on Album, and it sorts it that way. What am I missing?

Sorry -- I meant how they're organised on the hard drive. If I want to play the MP3s with another application, it's incredibly annoying. Makes playing it through the TiVo a bitch.

Ah. That I don't know.

1. I hate how ITunes has 'organised' my ripped files. Compilations are broken up as every track is stored under the artist (or some concatenation thereof) that performed it. Is there any middle ground? MMJB let you pick the storage hierarchy in more detail than I can find here.

That's not supposed to happen. (eta: if you actually ripped the songs in iTunes. But sometimes even then it happens.) But if if does, filter so you've selected every song in the compilation. Then select all the songs and go to Info. Check "Part of a compilation."

eta: Not sure if I understand your tag question. Yes, iTunes uses CDDB to get tag info. What do you mean when you say your other application uses CDDB to get "more info"?

tommy, I asked the questions poorly. The first one was about the MP3s on the hard drive, and the second was about MP3s that have already been created -- MMJB has a super-tagging feature that tries to look them up again in the CDDB and fill in missing values.

Oh. Did I help with your first question? I don't think iTunes has any "super-tagging" feature.

Can iTunes for Windows handle scripting?

Bless you, tommy! 8 Mile is all together.

Most of my collection was ripped in MMJB. Now I have a reorg plan.

iTunes does not have super-tagging. It's very annoying, actually. There aren't even any really good external super-tagging programs for Macs that I've found.

Had I thought of it, I would have warned you not to let it reorganize your files for you. The file structure iTunes uses is very nice if you use iTunes itself to rip most of your files, but it often causes problems for people with large collections made by other jukeboxes. It's a very "iTunes is the end all be all of music programs and why would you ever use anything else?" type thing much of the time. I run into some similar problems when I try to play music through my Xbox that you had with the Tivo, though I'm getting the hang of bending iTunes to my wishes.