OK, here's what I want to accomplish. I have a friend that wants his entire CD collection to be put onto an external HD. He then wants all the music files brought into iTunes on his iMac, but wants to keep all the actual files on the same external HD.
I have a lot of time on my hands right now, so I offered to get all his music from his CD's onto his external HD. I don't have access to his computer.
I can't drag and drop the CD disc image from my desktop to the HD, as only a shortcut symbol shows up inside the HD. I can click open the CD, then drag all the song files onto the HD. Then, as a test, I dragged one of the newly copied song files from his external HD into iTunes on my computer. It transferred the song into my Library, but only the the song title, no other metadata (Artist, Album, etc.)
So how do I get his CD's onto his external hard drive (including metadata,) then take the drive over to his house and add all those files into HIS iTunes Library, which we would specify be located on his external drive (I know how to do that part.)
I have a lot of time on my hands right now, so I offered to get all his music from his CD's onto his external HD. I don't have access to his computer.
I can't drag and drop the CD disc image from my desktop to the HD, as only a shortcut symbol shows up inside the HD. I can click open the CD, then drag all the song files onto the HD. Then, as a test, I dragged one of the newly copied song files from his external HD into iTunes on my computer. It transferred the song into my Library, but only the the song title, no other metadata (Artist, Album, etc.)
So how do I get his CD's onto his external hard drive (including metadata,) then take the drive over to his house and add all those files into HIS iTunes Library, which we would specify be located on his external drive (I know how to do that part.)