Unfortunately it doesn’t quite apply when moving happens through forces beyond our control. Not that it claims to I lost part of my music collection.. and I had it on my ipod, but couldn’t get it back with the same directory structure… I managed to use a Music Rescue to copy over all the songs from the ipod, but it’s all Artist\Album\TrckNr – Title.mp3, and that’s not how it was originally. I was trying to use the same program to sync my files with my itunes library (it was having errors) when Itunes synced my iPod despite being told not to putting me up the creek.

I’m just wondering now about the advanced level of this tutorial now, where you run a find and replace on the xml, but replacing the file location with artist and title metadata? The way the itunes library.xml is structured ( being profoundly less useful than say, ) definitely doesn’t make this easy.. I wonder do you have any idea of how it could be done? (not sure if you have advanced scripting know-how or not.. but I’m really looking for a solution!