For those of you who are lost about iTunes for windows, here’s a few things I’ve noticed in the year or so I’ve used iTunes for Mac that I found useful in Windows as well.
1. If you want to actually delete the file of a song when you clear it out of your library, it will only ask you to delete the file if you have copied it to your iTunes folder. If you have a music folder (eg. My Music), then it will never prompt you to delete the file as well. It will only clear it out of your iTunes folder. By default, files are set NOT to copy to the iTunes folder. You must set it manually. (Edit – Preferences – Advanced Tab – “Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library”)
Also, I recommend keeping your iTunes Music Folder organized. It’s not for everyone, but I found it at first crazy (since it organizes by artist) but eventually I realized I never really looked in my iTunes
folder anyways and let it be.
2. Try Adding Folders/Files to your Library instead of just double clicking or opening the actual songs. It’s a real easy way to massively add a bunch of songs. If you combine that with copying your songs to your iTunes folder, it makes it very easy to organize your songs (in my opinion).
3. Change your iTunes Folder. By default it goes to My MusiciTunesiTunes Music. (Edit – Preferences – Advanced tab) This should help you organize your files much easier. (in my opinion at least.)
4. Update your ID3 tags. I know it becomes a pain. But I have gone through my entire library and done it. It took me a few hours but I was also able to delete those songs I never listen to anymore. I personally don’t care if I have the entire collection of my 80’s CD’s on my computer anymore, since I only listen to a few songs. I greatly doubt I’ll be entertaining anyone anytime soon. In my opinion, iTunes is probably one of the easiest programs to update my songs’ ID3 tags. Have you tried fixing the ID3 tags of a thousand songs with Winamp? I don’t think so.
5. You feel that all your songs are updated, and you wish to copy your files to your iTunes folder. You realize of course, that if you should move or copy the files to the iTunes folder, it will not work. Aside from that, once you move the files to a new location, you’ll have to browse and locate the files yourself! This is easily done by the Consolidate Library option in the Advanced menu. This will copy all the songs in your library to the iTunes Music Folder for you. This makes it safe to now delete any songs you have in your other folders that you know are in your iTunes library.
6. Smart Playlists. Smart playlists are a great thing. Using simple rules, you can determine what will be on the playlist at any given time. Such as “any song that has the years of 1960-1969 will be in this playlist”. That would be the 60’s Music playlist. I have many of them, but I normally have a JPOP smart playlist that only shows songs that are genre JPOP. It makes things really easy. Provided you update all the information in your songs that is.
If you’ve got more useful and other tips, by all means, post them in the comments. I know mine are all geared towards what I’ve learned using iTunes all this time.
I won’t say anything about the iTunes Music Store, only because, iTunes isn’t just that. Before it was a music store, it was the best mp3/audio player I’ve ever used. To tell the truth, I hardly use the music store really. I’ve bought a few songs, but hell, no one has JPOP! 
where do you get your jpop?