Really? It does with my music files

Why do you need iTunes anyway? Surely you can just open the film you want to play direct from your external drive and away you go? Unless you're organising films by genre or whatever within iTunes in which case just rename the title in iTunes and forget about the actual file name on your external

Posted By: BerlinCanary on May 1st 2013 at 19:35:35

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Itunes is the strangest thing - it appears to have a mind of its own (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 19:17:03
- itunes is a classic example of shitware designed around their (General Chat) - Pixelman, May 1, 19:39:27
  - Don't get the hate towards iTunes. A bloated monster in some respects (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 19:43:44
- Because you didn't delete the library file as well I expect (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 19:20:24
  - All my films are on my external hard drive which I regularly update (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 19:25:30
    - Hold on, I've just read your post properly (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 19:26:25
      - Really? It does with my music files (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 19:35:35
        
        Windows or Mac by the way? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 19:39:52
        
        Windows (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 19:49:23
        
        Does this help? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 19:51:36
        
        To put onto my ipad (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 19:39:22
        
        Oh, I hear you! I'm ripping some CDs at the moment and all the names have to be perfect! (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 19:41:41
        
        Ah wait! (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 19:48:46
        
        ooooooo, I've not got it checked (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 19:50:23
        
        You may have to check the other "Copy..." one as well (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 19:54:03
        
        tried the first one without success (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 19:55:03
        
        Thought that would work... :( See if that link I posted above helps (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 19:57:10
        
        The post from bwh79 appears to be the answer (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 20:00:21
        
        yeah, me too (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 20:00:16
        
        As bwh79 says, you will get duplicated but you can then delete the original (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 20:01:40
        
        It didn't work (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 20:18:40
        
        Bummer :( (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, May 1, 20:47:40
        
        I've just wasted about an hour renaming all my films (General Chat) - Charles21, May 1, 19:48:13

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