Sharing files between MusicBee and iTunes

[klh]

Hi all:

I've made a lot of progress with iTunes over the last month, it's such a pleasure to have some control over my library that iTunes doesn't offer. Between MB and MP3Tag I've got my files pretty much tagged just the way I want.

But as everyone knows, I can't sync my iPhone with MB so I've installed iTunes for windows. First off, the reviews of iTunes for windows are so terrible on the MS store I was a little nervous but I've found it works just fine. The only issue is that no matter what I do iTunes defaults to my defined music location, I cannot move the itunes library to another drive but I can deal with that.

I followed the wiki and exported my itunes xml no issue, and iTunes imported everything as expected.

So my question is, I've invested a lot of time in tagging and I don't want iTunes stepping on my tags. I know to avoid having iTunes auto-download artwork (I'm not even logging in to apple and I recall auto-artwork downloads won't work if you're not authenticated).

Is there anything else to be aware of where iTunes will modify my files outside of playcount? I'm tempted to create a totally separate library with just the files I want to sync with my iPhone to be certain that iTunes doesn't step on my files, but if other users have had good luck with sharing the files from a tagging perspective, I'll just keep them together.

[phred]

Have you checked any of the itunes/iphone forums? Especially since MB has no control over the itunes/iphone functions you're asking about.

And since you're concerned about things that may happen with your files on itunes, I suggest backing up all your files.

[klh]

Was just curious if any MB folks sharing libraries with iTunes had experience with exactly what iTunes steps on RE tags. As to why I posted here: I care about MB, I don't care about iTunes, it's an ends to a means.

And for kicks...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/463638/itunes-changes-to-music-library-tags