In Windows XP iTunes 4.7, how can I change the location of a subset of
music files on my hard drive without much manual work and without
losing ratings and playcounts?
The options I can think of are:
1) moving the files w/ explorer, then relinking them to the iTunes
entries by clicking each one then respecifiying where the file is, but
this is too manually intensive since I'd have to relink each one
individually.
2) moving them w/ explorer then reimporting, but I'd lose all the
information I have in iTunes for the files.
3) moving the files, then edit the ITL, but this would also be a big
pain in the butt finding each entry and pasting in a new hard-drive
location.

A related question for which no answer is required: Why are Apple
products so great while also sucking so hard at the same time?
Steve: it's problems like this one that keep us middle-level users
away from your products.

Dear Mettle:

The simplest answer is to get a Mac and then use one of the many, many
freeware programs that users have written to simplify things.

Answer to the second question:  See the first.

A better question is why does a company so huge and profitable as
Bill's never make any decent operating systems or programs but rather
copy my stuff.  Another better question is why don't they make their
browser or mail program stop being a virus magnet.

Yours,

Steve

(This was a bit of humor, and not intended to start any debate.  Sorry
for anyone that takes it seriously.  I am truly sorry that there are
no windows apps to do what you need, there are about half a dozen that
do that sort of thing for the Mac.)