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iTunes help needed

Apr 9, 2007 4:57AM PDT

Hi folks.

I found out a way to make iTunes my PDF files database and I think it can work darn well.

I am right now in a confusing situation. I want to separate books using coverflow so that I can go to a set of books quickly by using coverflow. I have figured out that I need to change the album name to whatever I want and that separates the books.

So lets say before using iTunes I used to separate books by putting them in different folders. I want to use the name of my folder as the name of one coverflow heading and I want to be able to easily change the album names of all the books in the folder so they all come under one coverflow heading when added to iTunes.

Is there any way to easily change the album name outside iTunes?

Also can you tell me a way for doing this on a PC as well.

Thank You

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Hasnt anyone figured it out?
Apr 11, 2007 11:16AM PDT

PLZ help!

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Clarification
Apr 11, 2007 10:12PM PDT

Shahrokan, Found your post interesting but I am a bit confused as to why you would want to use an application that is designed to manage audio files and introduce text type of doc's to that area? The "normal convention" is to have text type doc's in your library folder with mac and/or my doc's in windoz?...With respect to file management or classification: This would depend on how many pdf files you have and how you want to catagorize them. Simply creating sub folders and sub directories within the catagories would take care of that. For renaming a file that would be done each time you introduce a new document you would name it and drop it into whatever folder that you wanted it to go too?....Am I missing something on why you feel that Itunes would be a good way to display these doc's?..Also should not matter if it's pdf,txt,.doc or whatever?

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Unclear to me as well.
Apr 11, 2007 10:17PM PDT

iTunes = what it is.

PDF = some document format.

Then you mention database. Sorry, PDF is a document not a database.

Tell more.

Bob

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More Info
Apr 12, 2007 1:59AM PDT

A few years ago Apple updated iTunes so that it could handle PDF files. iTunes can act as a database of all my PDF files. This does not include .txts, .docs etc. Only PDFs. I saw a video on youtube where they do this.

The reason why I want to do this is so as to display my PDFs in a more 'attractive' way and the idea of being able to choose my category using coverflow is interesting.

I do not want to rename my files. What I want to do is select some files, rename their album name in batch. Its easy to do in iTunes using 'Get Info'.

I have over the last few days tinkered around with iTunes. Is it possible to change the album name and then remove the PDFs from my library, then add another folder full of PDFs, change their album names to another one and continue doing this with all the folders and then finally add all the PDFs again to the library with their album names intact even though I removed them from my library?

Thank You for your replis. Maybe you should also try this out.

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No.
Apr 12, 2007 2:18AM PDT

Not without scripts. Why? iTunes on the PC does not pick up on the metadata in the PDF so you have to add it as you go. Since scripts are beyond what I'll write about here I have to decline at that point but you can research about itunes and scripting from various people on google.com

Bob