itunes - yes again

[Adam B]

I see Apple have spent the usual 30 mins adapting the latest update so it works on PC !

Does anyone know how I can manually add artwork now, used to be a simple cut and paste from web images, now it seems to want to force me to use icloud photos?

I won't ever use itunes artwork as previous updates use to wipe them out and leave my hours to restore them

[Adam B]

thanks gpo

I have a PC, I highlighted 10 or so tracks, did the usual right click / get info, then marvelled at how Apple had made the tag data prettire but LESS easy to edit.

I found the album artwork image on google, copied, but could not right click paste on the grey box in itunes.

When I clicked on the artwork tab and "add artwork" it directed me to icloud or I had to select a file, I couldn't see where to paste

Did you save the picture to your C: drive, and then load it up from there?

Edited by Adam B on Monday 20th October 11:10

[Adam B]

well the far easier way to do it was to copy the image and paste it straight into the get info screen, just paste it in the empty square on the bottom right

now it seems I have save it to a drive, then go and find it again

who on earth sits at Apple and thinks this is "progress" fecking idiots

Edited by Adam B on Monday 20th October 22:20

[Adam B]

Well lucky you pal

You didn't experience it's beautiful simplicity and easy of use, and have thus escaped the annoyance of its removal by some tech twassocks!!

[Adam B]

pavka007 said:

You don't need to right click and hit paste. Once when you copy your artwork from the webpage, click inside the empty box for artwork and use keyboard short cut (control V) this will paste the picture into the box.

fantastic thanks, tried that on the Details tab but it didn't work lime it does in previous versions

but it worked using ctrl + V in the artwork tab

still don't understand why they disabled the right click paste option, or why you are prevented from doing this on the Details tab (other than a general disinterest in making itunes work well with PCs)

[Adam B]

oooo spotted another great feature though

if you edit, say, the album title of some tracks with long titles iTunes now decides the titles should be chopped down to less characters

So I have now lost the "adagio", "allegro", "andante" etc that was the only differentiating part of about 100 Mozart tracks

fking fkers

[Adam B]

gpo746 said:

Sorry its me again. This interested me so again out of curiosity I did just that. I was able to change an album title to a long one with many characters. I changed AC/DC's "blow up your video" to "Blow up your video then seduce your neighbours wife while her hubby is down the boozer " - More than enough characters I would think ?

don't apologise, the discussion is very useful

you misunderstand, here is what happened:

I already have AC/DC track as "Blow up your video then seduce your neighbours wife while her hubby is down the boozer"
The album title is missing
I highlight the track, right click, get info and add an album title as "AC/DC Greatest Hits"
Itunes changes the album title BUT ALSO shortens track title to "Blow up your video", cuts off the rest and shows a circle with 3 dots in it (their stupid Genius thing I think), it hasn't hidden full track title it it has removed it !!!!

So I have to manually go in and and bloody add back "then seduce your neighbours wife while her hubby is down the boozer".

Manually...

x 100+ tracks...

pricks!

Edited by Adam B on Wednesday 22 October 14:14

[Adam B]

gpo746 said:

Hmmmmmmmmmm
I just did it and I SEE what you mean as I edited a song and gave it a fictitious album title. I saw your 3 dot thing but then when I click off that track it then displays as normal - I suspect its a time lag thing. I have done it with 2 other tracks and the same has happened

hope to god you are right, otherwise I have hours of editing to do

were you doing this to tracks from itunes which might be more robust? Mine were external downloads copied to itunes

[Adam B]

CoinSl0t said:

I can't tell you how many hours/days/weeks it's taken me to get my iTunes collection in order, all nicely labelled, artwork, compilation albums correctly listed etc.

I cringe every time there's an update or I need to move my collection to a new machine.

yep, exactly the same, wince on every update wondering how the next version is going to try to screw up something I have just got perfect - this one seems to have been extra special

[Adam B]

gwm said:

Another update, and I preferred the old way!

This time when updating the track info, if you press the space bar it automatically selects whatever artist was highlighted. Plus you now can't just copy artwork into it, you have to have the jpeg saved on your computer.

If you copy an image from google, you can paste it using ctrl V if you are in the get info > artwork tab

[Adam B]

gwm said:

Ok will have to try this later. Can't remember if I did it this way or right clicking.

still an utterly stupid "enhancement" to not allow right click, and not allow you to paste on the blank image box in the Details tab