Ok this is a two part inquiry to all out there as I need some clarification and assistance.
Background:
I am running Windows 7 64 Bit operating system.
I have just reinstalled iTunes 11.1.5.5 64 Bit version to my computer.
I have all my music and videos on a separate 4TB drive, none is stored on my computer, I keep it all on my media drive.
The iTunes library files are currently located on my C: drive, Libraries/Music/My Music/iTunes.... You know the typical default location for this data.
o Album Artwork
o iTunes Media
o Previous iTunes Libraries
o iTunes Library Extras.itdb
o iTunes Library Genius.itdb
o iTunes Library.itl
o iTunes Music Libary.xml
Part 1; Already posted:
A few days ago, not sure how it happened, "Genius" just up and disappeared from my iTunes interface, it no longer appeared on the left side panel, this included all my Genius Play Lists and the typical ones generated by Genius. It also removed the when my iPad, and my iPhone was sync'd, I did not notice at first, but all was gone. I tried to use the update Genius, but it will not load, it will not complete, I keep getting the time out error, The server is busy error, or it does complete, and when I go to select it, hell it just vanishes. I have been working on several ways from several threads to resolve this to no avail. I have even gone as far as to:
Completely remove all traces of iTunes and reinstall.
I have gone through my entire media drive and corrected all the album folders there, to remove any stray spaces, incomplete titles, odd symbols such as "~" and more, this was 8,958 album folders and was no easy task.
All my music files are MP3, all the tags are clean.
After removing iTunes and cleaning the registry, I relocated the music files to even shorten the path to them, in case the file path was too long and could be an issue.
Once iTunes was reinstalled, I directed it to the music folder containing all my music, and let it scan and load the library, once the library was loaded I once again turned on Genius and let it scan my music, it got as far as sending the info to apple and even was receiving the Genius download of data, but once it was complete, there was the Genius tab, but no playlists, and when I selected any songs, it said cannot generate from this song, it did with 20 different songs, it just would not work. I have repeated the process 5 times, and I have yet to get it working again.
I had read where one solution was to let iTunes manage my media files, and this leads to my additional question. I want to try this option, but I do not want it to duplicate my music files. What I wanted to do was from "C: take and move the iTunes music file to my media drive, or should I just move the iTunes media folder and leave the rest of the files on "C", the take my music and move it to iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes and select for iTunes to manage my music and let it scan and organize the music files (big risk, as I do not want all my files jumbled). This way as I understand it, iTunes will not create duplicate files, since the files are now in the Media folder.
So can anyone tell me if this is correct, before I move the files?
My plan is then to try to run Genius once the library has been organized; again my library is 377GB in size, 8,598 Folders, 160,945 Files.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
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