Happy Newt Ear!

[teenybuffalo]

So far, so good

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[ladymondegreen]

Let me know if you want a basic "dealing with iTunes" brain dump.

[teenybuffalo]

Yes yes a thousand times yes! That's exactly what I want.

[ladymondegreen]

First off, here is a keyboard commands cheat sheet. Ignore the fact that it says "For Dummies" this is not dumb information. This is helpful

[ladymondegreen]

e) In recent years, iTunes has made sharing easier. The simplest way that isn't straight-up burning a playlist to CD is to (if you're on a PC) make a new folder with File Manager, or if you're using a sharing program like DropBox use their native folder structure, grab and drag the songs you want to the folder. Don't worry, this is a copy function. The original songs will stay in iTunes. However, they will not stay in the order you want, you will have to do something arcane like including a track list or numbering the songs with 001, 002 at the start of the track name, but that's file sharing magic, not iTunes lore

[ladymondegreen]

This brings us to

[ladymondegreen]

Oh and I forgot the most important thing! GraceNote and CDDB are your friend. They will identify the album when you insert it in all but a few cases, and sometime they will give you people's variations on liner notes for the album when different sets of liner notes have been added. This will supply all the track and artist information with a 95% accuracy rate