I’m a desperate and disappointed user of iTunes, struggling since years with doublettes, missing cover art, not working family release and iTunes match features a.s.o… A couple of days ago I happened to find out about Plex, installed it … and am delighted! I made some test with a couple of MP3 CDs, managed to link Plex to my messed up iTunes library - everything looks great and promising - way to go!
My next step would be to leave iTunes completely and trust Plex as the one and only audio and video management software and server. But here are my questions: how could I transfer (physical copy) my entire iTunes content to Plex, make it clean of double entries, manage the structure regarding artists, albums etc., automatically add cover and artist’s art a.s.o. I’m on OSX El Capitan, is there existing software that can help gathering all audio and video files from iTunes and transfer and organize it for use with Plex?
Looking forward to your help and tipps to a Plex newbie!
When you create a library in Plex you just tell it which main folder all your X are in. you don’t move anything anywhere.
If you create a music library and want to point at your music in iTunes in the add folder portion of creation you navigate to the folder iTunes put the music. If you actually have double files you physically deleted them from the folder like you would any file not within Plex.
Thanks BigWheel for your reply! I found out about that already, but I’m wondering if there is - outside of Plex - an OSX app that lets me collect MP3 files, put them in album folders a.s.o. 'cause the iTunes folder structure is messy and full of duplicates and missing art work… Any suggestion on how to do that?
Have a great day! Thomas
You can rip your CDs on your computer and add them to your Plex library or use iTunes to rip them; then download the files to your server/computer; then point Plex to your music folder that way your’e out of the Apple Eco System. If needed you can use MP3 Tag to get everything nice and clean: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
I made some test with a couple of MP3 CDs, managed to link Plex to my messed up iTunes library - everything looks great and promising - way to go!
