iTunes question
 

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. :)

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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.

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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.

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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. :(

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

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

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wouldnt matter. itunes doesnt know the difference.

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

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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.

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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:

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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...

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. :)

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

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

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I have a question.

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

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

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Like it's one long mp3

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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!

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:) The beauty of legal dowloads.

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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...

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

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

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

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

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si

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Is it a CD-R or CD-RW?

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cd-r

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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...)

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

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Do you have the latest version of iTunes?

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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.

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yea.