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krause734

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iTunes automatically names song files in an odd way. I found an App called Renamer that will bulk rename the files to Artist - Album - Song. This is mostly for my car stereo. I put the music in Genre Folders and then it sorts alphabetically by artist. However, when I used this app I can no longer drag music from iTunes into the USB drive for some reason. I am guessing I screwed up the iTunes Library directory somehow. I can click Show in Finder for all the artists/albums but this is much more tedious.

EDIT: Found another program called Dougscripts that allows you to export the renamed files to a folder. Works great to rename files and organize them from iTunes by many different categories. Genre (folders) > Artist > Album (optional) > Track instead of how iTunes names files with the track number first which just plays the songs randomly on a USB in my car.
 
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