I-Tunes Frustration
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coach

Original Poster:

1,118 posts

283 months

Friday 29th December 2006
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I have converted all my WMA files to MP3 so I-tunes can recognise them and load them on to my i-pod

Problem is, it seems to have "disorganised" them now and some of the compilation Cd's don't appear in I-tunes as an album, but single tracks. When I look in the directory using explorer - they are all together in the original folders.

This is a pain with 12,000 tracks and 400 odd albums

Can anyone shed a light of hope on this?

Coach beer

mmm-five

12,396 posts

315 months

Friday 29th December 2006
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It's because the 'album' field in the tag is not populated with the correct name - iTunes doesn't care what folder it is in, just what the tag tells it!

I had a similar problem with 60,000 tracks I converted painstakingly from CD/DAT/MiniDisk/etc after iTunes ate my Library file.

I had to add each album in one by one to ensure I could name the album correctly - didn't take 'that' long, but wouldn't want to do it every weekend.

BrianTheYank

7,585 posts

281 months

Friday 29th December 2006
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thats gonna be a right pain to fix.

id suggest deleting everything out of itunes, then adding an album 1 by 1 and mass changing the album info for each set.

coach

Original Poster:

1,118 posts

283 months

Saturday 30th December 2006
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Thanks Chaps

Is there any way to change in situ with a piece of software?

Coach beer

egomeister

7,613 posts

294 months

Saturday 30th December 2006
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lightningghost

4,943 posts

280 months

Saturday 30th December 2006
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BrianTheYank said:
thats gonna be a right pain to fix.

id suggest deleting everything out of itunes, then adding an album 1 by 1 and mass changing the album info for each set.


Hey dude! Where've you been? wavey

You still driving the Porker? driving

BrianTheYank

7,585 posts

281 months

Saturday 30th December 2006
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lightningghost said:
BrianTheYank said:
thats gonna be a right pain to fix.

id suggest deleting everything out of itunes, then adding an album 1 by 1 and mass changing the album info for each set.


Hey dude! Where've you been? wavey

You still driving the Porker? driving


wavey

on my second one now. you driving yet mate?

lightningghost

4,943 posts

280 months

Saturday 30th December 2006
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BrianTheYank said:
lightningghost said:
BrianTheYank said:
thats gonna be a right pain to fix.

id suggest deleting everything out of itunes, then adding an album 1 by 1 and mass changing the album info for each set.


Hey dude! Where've you been? wavey

You still driving the Porker? driving


wavey

on my second one now. you driving yet mate?


Nope. Still one and a half years to go.


Are you still on the same hotmail account?

BrianTheYank

7,585 posts

281 months

Sunday 31st December 2006
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lightningghost said:
BrianTheYank said:
lightningghost said:
BrianTheYank said:
thats gonna be a right pain to fix.

id suggest deleting everything out of itunes, then adding an album 1 by 1 and mass changing the album info for each set.


Hey dude! Where've you been? wavey

You still driving the Porker? driving


wavey

on my second one now. you driving yet mate?


Nope. Still one and a half years to go.


Are you still on the same hotmail account?


bpagonis@gmail.com. i havent used hotmail in years.

so hi-jacking this thread.

The Dude

6,546 posts

278 months

Sunday 31st December 2006
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coach said:
Thanks Chaps

Is there any way to change in situ with a piece of software?

Coach beer


MP3/Media Rage from these chaps; www.chaoticsoftware.com/products.html

It really is rather good.

aaronm3

418 posts

247 months

Sunday 31st December 2006
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MusicBrainz tagger is a handy bit of software that I use. Worth a look.

edit- http://musicbrainz.org/

Edited by aaronm3 on Sunday 31st December 11:17