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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.
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. I have a load of MP3s that MusicMatch messed up... I shouldn't have surfed the web when the PC was ripping.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Canyarion

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

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.