def METHOD_NAME(path):
    # Itunes prepends the location with 'file://' on posix systems,
    # and with 'file://localhost/' on Windows systems.
    # The actual path to the file is always saved as posix form
    # E.g., 'file://Users/Music/bar' or 'file://localhost/G:/Music/bar'
    # The entire path will also be capitalized (e.g., '/Music/Alt-J')
    # Note that this means the path will always have a leading separator,
    # which is unwanted in the case of Windows systems.
    # E.g., '\\G:\\Music\\bar' needs to be stripped to 'G:\\Music\\bar'
    return util.bytestring_path(os.path.normpath(
        unquote(urlparse(path).path)).lstrip('\\')).lower()