How can I get Itunes to move everything to my library retroactively. When I add new songs, it copies them to my library but I have a lot of music that I added before I discovered I could enable the auto import to library function. How can I get itunes to go back and copy all of those to the Itunes auto-organized library?
My files are spread out all over the place, it would be nice to have them in one place.
How to retroactively import files into the Itunes library
importitunesmp3
Related Solutions
In iTunes > Preferences > Advanced
Uncheck Keep iTunes Media folder organised and Copy Files to iTunes Media folder when adding to Library
Screen shot provided by @Wheat Williams:
I dissected the XML file a bit and it turned out to be a XML property list (sort of a XML-based JSON equlivant), so it becomes easier to handle. If the files affected have the same name not counting its extension, some Objective-C can be laid down to change it. Do you have Xcode installed or should I prepackage it for you?
Best Answer
If you go to File -> Library -> Organise Library you'll get a pop up asking if you'd like to Consolidate Library, that'll move all the files into the iTunes music folder.
Apple Support Document on how to do it.