iTunes question

[Canyarion]

A lot of my MP3s have silly names like '03Philcollins__waytoheaven' or 'Paul van Dijk ft'.

I want all my MP3s to be like this: 'Phil Collins - Something Happened On The Way To Heaven' and 'Paul van Dijk - We Are Alive'.

Is there a way iTunes (or another program) can do this?? This will be so much easier when I burn MP3 CDs.

Thanks. :)

[TheSlyMoogle]

A lot of my MP3s have silly names like '03Philcollins__waytoheaven' or 'Paul van Dijk ft'.

I want all my MP3s to be like this: 'Phil Collins - Something Happened On The Way To Heaven' and 'Paul van Dijk - We Are Alive'.

Is there a way iTunes (or another program) can do this?? This will be so much easier when I burn MP3 CDs.

Thanks. :)

As far as I know, if the song doesn't have an ID tag already, and that's what it says, you'll have to go in and rename all the songs manually.

It's a bitch of a job.

[Null]

dunno bout itunes. but Musicmatch can look up titles based what what its named and try ti give you what i thinks it is. you'd prolly have to double check each but it might be a bit faster.


i always tell people to start naming them correctlly when they dont have many. because if they dont they're regret it later on in the collection. ;p

if you have the ID tags correct, i know musicmatch will zip tho them an name em all. or if you have the names right it'll zip thro and tag them for you.

[Canyarion]

Aah...... All my ID tags (?) are correct, so Musicmatch can rename the files? I'll have to try that. :D
Problem is that iTunes will probably forget all the play records because I changed the files. :(

[Null]

itunes might be able to rename files from id tags also. not sure.

[Bond]

If those files are illegally downloaded I don't think iTunes can.

[Null]

wouldnt matter. itunes doesnt know the difference.

[GameMaster]

Canyarion, all you have to do is click the song, then select File > Get Info > then click the info tab.

[Null]

i hope you mean highlight all songs and do that. because it sucks if thats 1 by 1.

in music match you just load up every song you got. tell it the format to name them. and as long as it has something to go by, (be it, looking it up on the net, or using the ID3 tags) it just mass renames them on the spot.

[Canyarion]

Ok thanks all, I guess I'll have to install MusicMatch again. :(
That program is terrible at ripping CDs. :mad: I have a load of MP3s that MusicMatch messed up... I shouldn't have surfed the web when the PC was ripping. :sneaky:

[Typhoid]

Ok thanks all, I guess I'll have to install MusicMatch again. :(
That program is terrible at ripping CDs. :mad: I have a load of MP3s that MusicMatch messed up... I shouldn't have surfed the web when the PC was ripping. :sneaky:



My Musicmatch worked fine, i ripped teh Hives CD last night, as far as i know the CD is fine, as long as id didnt like, erase the songs. And the songs are named properly, and they ripped fine. Although finding the files was a totoal bit**.

But i might be using a different Music mathc, mine came with my computer and is called "Musicmatch Jukebox plus" idno if thats normal or what...

[GameMaster]

As long as you have iTunes Canyarion, convert all your MP3s to AAC (MP4) format. Cut the file size without cutting quality. :)

[Null]

actually AAC files are slightly less quality then mp3, i wouldnt recommend coverting them at all. And i had webpages that back that issue up with proof, to get the same quality the size is actually about the same.


And outta the 2 i actually prefer music match for burning CD's then itunes. for some reason when i made it on itunes the CD players pauses for a while thinking about the track before playing it.

[KillerGremlin]

Musicmatch........blah.

Brings back days of using not 1337 programs like Real Player.

Do yourself a player and download The Godfather. Someone from AGB told me about it, and it's an amazing program. You can hack your ID3 tags up like no other.

[Null]

no one said musicmatch was a good player.

but for mass renaming, i've yet to find one faster. it ziped thro a couple thousand songs in a couple seconds renaming every one for me.

[KillerGremlin]

I'll give you that. It does seem a bit overkill just for renaming, but it's easy to download, easy to install, and you can remove it pretty easily too.

So it works nicely. :)

[thatmariolover]

Wow. The Godfather really is an incredible program. I just downloaded it and installed it. It ownz.

[Typhoid]

Wow. The Godfather really is an incredible program. I just downloaded it and installed it. It ownz.




Is someone paying you to say that? I wont point fingers...

[bobcat]

I have a question.

How do you combine 2 or more mp3's into 1 mp3?

[GameMaster]

Like it's one long MP3 or do you mean having them all playing together at the same time?

[bobcat]

Like it's one long MP3 or do you mean having them all playing together at the same time?
Like it's one long mp3

[ulala06]

i have a ****ing itunes question... or rather a puzzling statement...

all of my downloaded songs are protected and incapable of being converted to mp3s... and therefore incapable of being burnt onto a cd and read by my car/stereo. i even tried d/ling a seperate conversion program, to no avail.


HELP!

[Typhoid]

i have a ****ing itunes question... or rather a puzzling statement...

all of my downloaded songs are protected and incapable of being converted to mp3s... and therefore incapable of being burnt onto a cd and read by my car/stereo. i even tried d/ling a seperate conversion program, to no avail.


HELP!



:) The beauty of legal dowloads.

[gekko]

iTunes does it, somewhat.

In preferences, advanced, check "Keep itunes Music folder organized"

Then it would be iTunes Music > Phil Collins > Unknown Album > Something happened on the way to heaven.mp3

You can also add a track number at the beginning under the importing setting.

Now go to advanced > consolidate library. It should move all of your MP3s into the itunes music folder with the new setup.

After that, changing the ID tag should move and rename the file automatically.

But then again, Windows might not...

[gekko]

i have a ****ing itunes question... or rather a puzzling statement...

all of my downloaded songs are protected and incapable of being converted to mp3s... and therefore incapable of being burnt onto a cd and read by my car/stereo. i even tried d/ling a seperate conversion program, to no avail.


HELP!

Burn them to a CD, the rip them off the CD in MP3 format.

[GameMaster]

You don't need to convert it to MP3, the songs bought off iTunes are compatible as is.

[ulala06]

You don't need to convert it to MP3, the songs bought off iTunes are compatible as is.

well apparently not because i burnt a cd and it didn't work.

[GameMaster]

For the disc format, did you select Audio CD in Preferences>Burning?

[ulala06]

si

[GameMaster]

Is it a CD-R or CD-RW?

[ulala06]

cd-r

[MuGen]

I don't understand what's happening with yours ulala.... there shouldn't be any settings you need to do.

Gekko basically got that part right about iTunes renaming MP3's so they are nice and neat with "Keep iTunes music folder organized."

But if you buy songs legally off of iTunes Music Store, it should automatically burn the CD's and do everything. Because it's legal, iTunes should recognize it. I'd say it's probably the CD player you're trying to play it on.

I've been burning songs off of iTunes music store for a long time.

And to address the other question, all my iTunes song files are ALL organized and have good filenames.

[Xantar]

What do you mean when you say the disc doesn't work? What are you using to play it? Some machines don't play CD-R.

Maybe you should just get a Mac and save yourself the trouble.

[Canyarion]

iTunes is really annoying me. It doesn't register the first (second of?) action when I try to change a name or something.

Let's say I click twice on a song so I can copy the name, I have to hit ctrl C TWICE before it really copies.

When I want to change a name and start typing M2M, 2M shows up. :mad:

[MuGen]

That's usually part of the predictive text input. With libraries with more than one song from an artist, it tries to help you type in the iD3 so you dont have to type the whole artists name.

[Canyarion]

Nono that's not it. It just doesn't register my inputs.

What you mean is another annoying feature. Some dork once typed an artist as "3 doors down". When I try to change it to "3 Doors Down", it automaticly suggests "3 doors down" again. What I do is leave the 3 out, first typing Doors Down, then adding the 3 in front of it. That works, unless I also have an artist named "donovan", then I lose the capital D again. :( :mad:

But that's not the problem I mean. :p It's a bug or something. Or the inability to deal with a folder with more than 1000 MP3s in it.
(I try to order them in artist folders, but I can't just place the MP3s into a new folder, because then iTunes loses the play count [a function that I love:D], or I have to manually find all the songs for it...)

[ulala06]

What do you mean when you say the disc doesn't work? What are you using to play it? Some machines don't play CD-R.

Maybe you should just get a Mac and save yourself the trouble.


my car cdplayer plays other cd-r's, but not the one i burnt on itunes.

[GameMaster]

Do you have the latest version of iTunes?

[Teuthida]

iTunes is pure evil. I once used it to share music at college and how it "organized" my songs pissed the hell out of me. I'm still trying to get them back how they were almost 2 years later.

[ulala06]

Do you have the latest version of iTunes?

yea.

[GameMaster]

An unchanged playlist that contains songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store can be burned no more than seven times.

Some third-party CD-RW drives may not work with iTunes. To see if iTunes works with a drive, from the Edit menu, choose Preferences, then click the Burning tab. If your drive is listed, it should work with iTunes. If you don't see your device listed in the Burning pane of iTunes preferences and you're sure that it's a supported drive, the correct drivers may not be installed. To install the appropriate drivers, reinstall iTunes.

Do you have Windows XP or 2000 Service Pack 2?

[Vampyr]

I burned a 3 Doors Down cd the other day, and the majority of the songs came off of iTunes. So yours is just messed up. heheh

[Null]

*pats winamp, snickers at all the people using itunes* my ipod is much healthier now that i switched its diet off of itunes and onto winamp. its more lean and runs faster. :)

[ulala06]

An unchanged playlist that contains songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store can be burned no more than seven times.

Some third-party CD-RW drives may not work with iTunes. To see if iTunes works with a drive, from the Edit menu, choose Preferences, then click the Burning tab. If your drive is listed, it should work with iTunes. If you don't see your device listed in the Burning pane of iTunes preferences and you're sure that it's a supported drive, the correct drivers may not be installed. To install the appropriate drivers, reinstall iTunes.

Do you have Windows XP or 2000 Service Pack 2?


xp.


and it lists my drive.

[GameMaster]

If you've tried the troubleshooting steps above, and you're still having problems, you can run diagnostics within iTunes for Windows to get more detailed information on your configuration. To do this:

Open iTunes on your Windows PC.
Choose Run CD Diagnostics... from the Help menu.
Put an audio CD in each one of your optical drives that you want to test.
Click OK.
The results appear in a new Window. The results may contain additional troubleshooting suggestions for you to try.

[Canyarion]

iTunes is pure evil. I once used it to share music at college and how it "organized" my songs pissed the hell out of me. I'm still trying to get them back how they were almost 2 years later.
Yeah I don't let iTunes organise my songs anymore.
Especially CDs with multiple artists are a disaster, it brings under the songs under every artist. :rolleyes:

[gekko]

Yeah I don't let iTunes organise my songs anymore.
Especially CDs with multiple artists are a disaster, it brings under the songs under every artist. :rolleyes:

That sounds like a case of the user not knowing how to use the product.

Under General preferences, there's an option "Group compilations when browsing" Check it.

Now go back to the library, and under artist there will be Compilations at the top. Click it, and it jumps to the albums that are compilations.

Now apologize to Apple :p

[Canyarion]

Yeah when I typed it, I realised there probably was an option like that... Can you tick it when you import the CD?
Wait, I got that information from their database, so someone else is guilty of doing this to me. :(

I wasn't really complaining about that problem. Nobody has answered my actual big problem yet.

[gekko]

Yes, right click on the CD when it pops up, it should be an option under there.

What's the big problem?

[Canyarion]

Read on the previous page. Bugged, doesn't show the first letter I type. Doesn't copy the first time I try.

And don't blame Windows, that's no use here. :( Even though it might be true...

[MuGen]

I get that problem a lot of times in any program where it doesn't copy the first time. So instead of using CTRL+C or whatever, highlight the object right click and hit copy, works all the time now.

[Canyarion]

:( I still have the typing problems. It sucks.

I don't think reinstalling is very useful, because I just installed the latest patch/version a few weeks ago.

Oh well, gonna change my computer soon anyway. :)

[ulala06]

ok... i'm pretty sure it's not itunes... i think my hardware's messed up.

*dies*

[Canyarion]

Now please apologise to Apple and it's followers here.

[Canyarion]

Ok another iTunes question, since you like them so much. :)

I have 2 folders with MP3s.
-1 with ripped CDs (this is the iTunes Music folder).
-2 is called 'My Shared Folder' and contains all my downloaded music.

I'd like to move my music from 2 to 1, but not all at once (since some of my music isn't properly tagged yet; it might also take too much time).

So the question is: Is there a way to select a few songs and command iTunes to collect only that music into the iTunes folder? Thanks. :)

[Null]

hrm.


well if you cleared itunes library, then added the folder (itunes folder) into the library, and then selected automatically sort files or something... shoudlnt it then add and sort any file you from then on add into the library? so add in the ones you want, bit by bit?


im not sure, thats a best guess, there are programs that could do it easily, i dont know if itunes has such an easy way.

[Canyarion]

Well, of course I thought of that way, but then I'll lose the playcount. :p I hold my playcount dear. :sneaky:

I know that there's an option to move ALL your music into the iTunes folder, but I don't want that.....

Ach, perhaps I'll just do what you suggested. Then I can also replace all my 192kbps albums by 128.

[GameMaster]

Command click only the files you want them drag them into the folder.

[Canyarion]

From iTunes to a folder? It only copies the file then... I need iTunes to organize the stuff.

[GameMaster]

I use this: http://musicbrainz.org/

[KillerGremlin]

TAGANDRENAME!!!!!

tagandrename is like sex with zegina.

[Canyarion]

I use this: http://musicbrainz.org/
What does it exactly do? Will it recognize all my MP3s?

Edit: what is the advantage of this over iTunes? That iTunes can only look up CDs ripped by yourself?

[KillerGremlin]

I know I'm the forum newb and no one listens to me, but check out Tag and Rename.

[Canyarion]

Hey what's that noise?







:p






How does Tag and Rename work? What does it do??? I don't need programs to tag my MP3s, I can do that myself... I only need iTunes to move portions into the iTunes music folder.

[KillerGremlin]

Could you use the Windows find tool and just find all MP3s, select them all, and copy them into one root folder?

[Canyarion]

Please read my post again. Or not: I don't want to lose the post count yet. I like to keep track of what I have and haven't heard. And my most played songs. Most played is Eventually by M2M: 43 times since januari 30 2004 23:19. :)

I'm going to reset everything one day... but not yet.

[KillerGremlin]

Well then, I'm off my high horse and paying more attention to the other posts.

But you did say you needed to properly tag some stuff.

[Canyarion]

True, but most of that are seperate MP3s and no albums, and I don't think any program can tag those...

[Null]

you'd be surprised :p

[Canyarion]

I know I'm the forum newb and no one listens to me, but check out Tag and Rename.
This one does that?
Edit: I tried MusicBrainz, which recognized some files, but only 20% so far. Though I did put some tough songs in there. :p :devil:

Is Tag & Rename better? By the way, so far I'm only retagging them, not renaming yet, because I think I'll lose them in iTunes then...

[Angrist]

http://www.mattberube.com/software/ituneskeys/

Global hotkeys for iTunes, works great! I liked the global hotkeys in WinAmp, but missed the nice library functions in iTunes.

At the moment I'm using iTunes 4.6 with iTunesKeys. Without all the new and useless online crap.