[gofauvism]

I just got one of the white MacBooks a few weeks ago, never owning my own computer before and being used to PC stuff, so I'm learning a little slow...

My first problem has to do with transferring mp3's over a wireless network to my MacBook.

I have a wireless network connection to a PC with many GB's of mp3's, taking about 4 or 5 hours to transfer, and the list of Artists gets to somewhere around the letter T when I get a message saying something about incompatible filetypes and the transfer automatically stops. So I have all the mp3's until A Tribe Called Quest (hur hur). How do I find the problem files and make it "go around" them? I want all the mp3's I can get. When I do successfully re-start this transfer, is it going to re-transfer everything, or understand to pick up where it left off?

My other problem has been a pain for a while-- dealing with organization in iTunes.

I get a lot of duplicates in iTunes, I don't want to go through them manually to get rid of them. If there's an easy way to delete them in iTunes, what is it? And if I do it in iTunes, does that action carry over to the place on my HD where I keep my mp3's? It's just the iTunes folder. Is that set up to communicate with iTunes as one and the same? I notice when I download a torrent and put it in the iTunes folder, I still have to "add folder..." in iTunes to get it to come up on my Library.

I think that's everything, sorry if I didn't state it quite right.

Please help me out! I'd like my compy to have all my music, neatly and well-understood.

[Cold Warrior]

It could be that one file is corrupt or, like it says, is an incompatible filetype. You can view files by filetype, which would let you see if any aren't MP3.

Another option is to import them in smaller groups, maybe 50 at a time, then if it craps out, take that 50 block and import by groups of 10. Find the right group then take it one by one until you find the culprit.

Also, it's going to be slow over wifi. If you can hook up both to your router over ethernet, it'll import much faster. Or hook both machines together using ethernet.

[gofauvism]

anyone got an easy iTunes mess-fix? or is that just the product of my careless file-swashbuckling?

[Atheist]

Originally Posted by gofauvism 

anyone got an easy iTunes mess-fix? or is that just the product of my careless file-swashbuckling?

Check out Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes

[analogika]

As for the file transfer crapping out, it'd be kind of relevant to know exactly what that "something about an incompatible filetype" is.

Did it say exactly that, or is that half-remembered embellishment?