Windows system control center 2.2.1.6: Converts any text into spoken words or even MP3/WAV audio files. Free download provided for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. Itunes and Traktor are both databases that run off those tags. Ive seen Itunes collections going from moving at a crawl, to running like butter once the metadata was sorted out. Id also guess that most of those 500,000 songs are very low quality bitrate. Do a search through your library, delete anything under 320. If documentation is provided with the Software, you may copy and use the documentation for personal reference purposes. H.264/AVC and MPEG-4 Visual Standards and VC-1 Video Standards. The Software may include H.264/AVC, MPEG-4 Visual, and/or VC-1 codec technology. Requires this notice.
If you follow my blog, and my articles in Macworld, where I’m The iTunes Guy, you know I have a very large iTunes library. Currently, I have over 71,000 tracks in my main music library, for just under 700 GB, and about 30,000 tracks in a second library of music that takes up 320 GB. I’ve got about 240 GB of movies and 260 GB of TV shows. Altogether, that’s about 1.5 TB.
Yet if you look at my iTunes Media folder, you won’t see all of those files.
Over the years, I’ve had to struggle with organizing all my files, juggling increasingly large hard drives to store them. Until I discovered the $15 TuneSpan, a bit more than a year ago. TuneSpan was the iTunes utility that I had long been looking for. While you can store your iTunes media on different drives using iTunes, it’s a bit complicated to do so. If iTunes organizes your files, then it copies them all to your iTunes Media folder. In my case, putting all my files in that folder would take up too much space.
What TuneSpan does is let you “span,” or move, any or all of the files in your iTunes library to other drives or volumes. My Music volume is already an external drive connected to my Mac mini, but I have a second drive also connected to that Mac where I shunt off the files I don’t want on the Music drive.
TuneSpan lets you select which files you want to move, moves them, but keeps pointers to them in the iTunes library file. This is no mean feat, and it’s something you can’t do easily on your own. Just launch TuneSpan, choose the files you want to move, choose a location for them, and the app will copy everything, then tidy up your iTunes library.
For example, I have about 100 GB of high-resolution music files in my iTunes library. Since these are big files, I felt it would be easier to shunt them off to a second drive.
You select the items you want to span, drag them to the bottom section of TuneSpan’s interface, then click the Span button and wait. The copy process can take a while, depending on how many files you’re moving and how fast the data can be moved (USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt).
When TuneSpan has finished copying the files and verifying them, it quits and relaunches iTunes. Your music or videos are still in your iTunes library, but on a different drive. You can play or tag them as if they were local, and iTunes is none the wiser.
If you have a large iTunes library, TuneSpan is a life-saver. No more will you need to upgrade to larger and larger hard drives; just use multiple drives and let TuneSpan organize your files where you want them. Groupspro 2 2 – contact groups and mailing list management. TuneSpan is a must-have utility for anyone with a lot of media files in their iTunes library.
Buy TuneSpan from the Mac App Store.
Thanks for getting in touch. I'm sorry you ran into an issue. But, I'm glad to hear it worked itself out.
Chances are, this is because the XML iTunes Library file that TuneSpan reads wasn't updated by iTunes yet when you first launched TuneSpan.
iTunes updates the XML file regularly, but if you make changes in iTunes the files will not necessarily be updated immediately. It would generally be updated at some point if iTunes is still running, but you can force iTunes to save the updated XML file by quitting and relaunching iTunes.
Tunespan 1 2 1 – Effortless Itunes Media Library Management Program
Tunespan 1 2 1 – Effortless Itunes Media Library Management System
This is most likely why TuneSpan caught the deleted tracks after the span, because TuneSpan quits and relaunches iTunes to make sure the XML file has been updated before verifying the span.
Tunespan 1 2 1 – Effortless Itunes Media Library Management Software
Tunespan 1 2 1 – Effortless Itunes Media Library Management App
If my thinking it correct, then I would say this isn't anything to worry about. Just the nature of how TuneSpan is forced to get data from and interact with iTunes. It's not perfect and instantaneous in some possible cases like this. But when TuneSpan finally did get the most up-to-date info from the XML file, it did it's job as expected.