importing from itunes

[David Herman]

Did like you good gents said, set up my import values in itunes, imported and when I went to import into my browser, found the pieces of music greyed out in the itunes music folder. Yikes. Tried dragging and dropping them from the memory stick into itunes then converted them to aiff and voila it worked and could import them into fcp and I’m a happy lad, but why the grey out?

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[davidtoo] “but why the grey out?”

Because when you “imported” the first time, iTunes was actually playing FROM the Memory Stick (it did not make a copy to your HD.)
When you pulled the m-stick out, iTunes no longer had access to the file (grayed out).
That’s probably why it was skipping when you first tried this whole thing.

When you converted to 48 kHz, iTunes DID create a new (48 kHz) file on your HD.

If you want to avoid this (and you really don’t need to worry about it if you don’t use much REMOVABLE media) you can go to:

iTunes(menu)> Preferences > Advanced >
Check the Box: Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library

[David Herman]

Matte, thank you. The patience and goodwill you guys show to no littles like myself is admirable. A virtual kilo of my finest goats cheese winging its way from Gloucestershire. Yes, I type with the mucky fingers of a farmer/filmmaker.

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[davidtoo] “Yes, I type with the mucky fingers of a farmer/filmmaker.”

Well, this IS the COW!

Just a big barnyard of activity.