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chimz posted:Get CoverSutra off the App Store, it kicks rear end and scrobbles your songs. http://sophiestication.com/coversutra/ If you don't care about the menu extras, for free there's BowTie. http://bowtieapp.com/
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iTunes update out with a download previous purchase feature. • Download Previous Purchases. Download your past music purchases again at no additional cost. Your purchases are available in the iTunes Store on your PC or in the iTunes app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Previous purchases may be unavailable if they are no longer on the iTunes Store http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519 Looked with a friend (who lost their music) and there is no music button for either of us, just Apps and Books.
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Carecat posted:Looked with a friend (who lost their music) and there is no music button for either of us, just Apps and Books. Are you in the US? From that link: Automatic Downloads and downloading past purchased music is supported only in the US
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Is there a decent app to clean up the information on songs in iTunes? I would like the albume, track and genre cleaned up if possible, art work would be nice too
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| # ? Jun 17, 2011 02:47 |
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Ropes4u posted:Is there a decent app to clean up the information on songs in iTunes? I would like the albume, track and genre cleaned up if possible, art work would be nice too 
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| # ? Jun 17, 2011 04:44 |
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hirvox posted:MusicBrainz can handle track and album names, but it doesn't automatically apply album art. I doubt there's a decent app for genres. SongGenie might fit the bill though.
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Does anyone have a good solution for making smart playlists (for iPod syncing) that are made up of complete albums? (On Windows) I remember finding some apple scripts, but didn't come across anything that would work on windows.
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| # ? Jun 17, 2011 06:33 |
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hirvox posted:MusicBrainz can handle track and album names, but it doesn't automatically apply album art. It can do it automatically if you install the Cover Art Downloader plugin.
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P0PCULTUREREFERENCE posted:Does anyone have a good solution for making smart playlists (for iPod syncing) that are made up of complete albums? (On Windows) If you put in whatever parameters you want and set the smartplay list to the size you want, then set it to random, then the main itunes set Controls>Shuffle> by Album (you may have to delete the smart playlist originally created) then the resulting list will have whole albums. If this does not make since then I can try to explain again or some one else can.
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JamesOff posted:It can do it automatically if you install the Cover Art Downloader plugin. Any issues I should be aware of before I unleash MusicBrainz and the plug in for artwork on my library..
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Ropes4u posted:Any issues I should be aware of before I unleash MusicBrainz and the plug in for artwork on my library.. Not really, it's a cool programme. If you already have things tagged into albums though, you might want to click the "cluster" button - it seems to help it identify the albums - before you click "lookup".
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I'm going to be reorganizing my music library and would like to just somehow automatically update the path location after the move so I can preserve my metadata. I don't let iTunes manage my music library at all, as it's all organized on a separate drive in its own structure I maintain. The stuff I pulled up on Google dated back to 2007 and 2006, and involved editing the XML with a find->replace and letting iTunes repair the database, but I'm going to end up changing every album's folder name to add the year, so that won't work for me. It's been long enough, I was hoping that maybe there was a smarter way to do this by now. If not, I can deal with the metadata being lost, but it would be nice to keep it.
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This was probably mentioned somewhere in the last 50 odd pages, but how do I stop iTunes from adding two copies of each song to the library when importing a folder that also contains a playlist of all the songs in that folder?
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| # ? Jun 22, 2011 02:48 |
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Delete the playlist file from the folder first.
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| # ? Jun 22, 2011 04:57 |
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.m3u is the devil's extension - expunge them!
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Hillridge posted:This was probably mentioned somewhere in the last 50 odd pages, but how do I stop iTunes from adding two copies of each song to the library when importing a folder that also contains a playlist of all the songs in that folder? I couldnt so I used a script off doug's iTunes script page to delete the doplicayes..
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Ropes4u posted:Any issues I should be aware of before I unleash MusicBrainz and the plug in for artwork on my library.. For everything else I use mp3tag in a VM.
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-Dethstryk- posted:I'm going to be reorganizing my music library and would like to just somehow automatically update the path location after the move so I can preserve my metadata. I don't let iTunes manage my music library at all, as it's all organized on a separate drive in its own structure I maintain. On a Mac, the files should all stay connected without messing with XML because of some really cool stuff that iTunes and HFS+ do. I'd test it out first on one track, but I think it works, as long as the files are moved and not copied. On a PC, the XML thing is your best bet. You'll lose play counts etc. Or you could shed your OCDitude and let iTunes manage it. It'll do iTunes Media/Music/<Artist>/<Album>/DiscNum-TrackNum Name.mp3 for you. Just set your wanted music location in Advanced prefs, then do File-Library-Organize Library, and select both Consolidate and Reorganize. Make sure to enable the Keep and Copy options in Prefs-Advanced afterwards.
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chimz posted:Or you could shed your OCDitude and let iTunes manage it. This. Seriously, it's 2011. Time to let go of the old ways.
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chimz posted:Or you could shed your OCDitude and let iTunes manage it. It'll do iTunes Media/Music/<Artist>/<Album>/DiscNum-TrackNum Name.mp3 for you. Just set your wanted music location in Advanced prefs, then do File-Library-Organize Library, and select both Consolidate and Reorganize. Make sure to enable the Keep and Copy options in Prefs-Advanced afterwards. And what happens if there's no "disc number" tag? Also, doesn't this scheme kind of make a mess of compilation albums? Like for instance "The Complete Stax-Volt Singles" is a 9-disc set with (I'm guessing) 40 different artists.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Also, doesn't this scheme kind of make a mess of compilation albums? Like for instance "The Complete Stax-Volt Singles" is a 9-disc set with (I'm guessing) 40 different artists. There's a "part of a compilation" tag that keeps this all straight. WithoutTheFezOn posted:And what happens if there's no "disc number" tag? You can fix your tags before you import, or after.
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chimz posted:Or you could shed your OCDitude and let iTunes manage it. It'll do iTunes Media/Music/<Artist>/<Album>/DiscNum-TrackNum Name.mp3 for you. Just set your wanted music location in Advanced prefs, then do File-Library-Organize Library, and select both Consolidate and Reorganize. Make sure to enable the Keep and Copy options in Prefs-Advanced afterwards. Is there a way to make iTunes name the files with artist name in them? I have mostly embraced the iTunes way of doing it, but the one last bastion of OCD in my brain is I want the artist in the file name still.
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beefnoodle posted:There's a "part of a compilation" tag that keeps this all straight. quote:You can fix your tags before you import, or after.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Yes, but letting iTunes organize it would create 40 separate ../Artist/.. subfolders, correct? I understand that it's better in the long run to pick one method and stick with it, but .. well, I'd have to think about that. No, in the Compilations folder you have a folder for each Compilation album. Inside that are all the tracks on that album. If you fix the tags after you import then it will rename the file or move it as appropriate.
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Ok, great. Thanks for the info.
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chimz posted:Get CoverSutra off the App Store, it kicks rear end and scrobbles your songs. http://sophiestication.com/coversutra/ I can't use CoverSutra because if you do "vinyl" view, the slipcover is all wrong. That's not how you put a slipcover on an album and it bothers me to even look at in a virtual way (the notch should be along the top, not the side where you could reach in and grab the album itself). It's great otherwise of course. Also I'm complaining about virtual slipcover use so I think I need a nap, but still.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:For clarification, setting the Keep and Copy options means your old file structure stays intact, right? No, it's the other way around. "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" means it will move music files to their proper place when you edit their metadata. "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" means it will create a copy of a song in its proper place when you add it to the library. If it's already inside the iTunes Media folder, but in the wrong place, it will move it instead (I think). I believe if you have the Keep option selected, it won't move your old file structure unless you edit a file. If you have no Disc Number tag, it uses the format "TrackNum SongTitle.mp3" Doctor Zero posted:Is there a way to make iTunes name the files with artist name in them? Nope. Sorry. WithoutTheFezOn posted:Yes, but letting iTunes organize it would create 40 separate ../Artist/.. subfolders, correct? I understand that it's better in the long run to pick one method and stick with it, but .. well, I'd have to think about that. As IUG said, the Compilations folder is how iTunes deals with this. When you make an album a Compilation, the songs are stored in "iTunes Media/Music/Compilations/<Album Name>/DiscNum - TrackNum Song Name.mp3". The albums are shown in iTunes under a virtual 'Compilations' category (in the Browse sidebar). Conveniently, songs in a compilation will also show up under the artist's name with the artist's other songs that aren't in a compilation, but an artist which is only in a compilation won't clutter up the artist list. You may need to hit 'Group compilations when browsing' to get this behavior. Can't remember if it's default or not. WithoutTheFezOn posted:If you fix the tag after you import it, does it change the actual file name (in the iTunes library location), or just an entry in the library database? If you have the Keep option on, it moves the file. If you don't, it won't move it, and you'll need to Consolidate. Useful Apple documents: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391 http://docs.info.apple.com/article....n/itns2937.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
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Can someone talk me through autofill options for iPhones? I have about 4 playlists I want on there all the time and I'd like the rest of the music to keep getting swapped around. If I don't check manually manage music then autofill always puts the same stuff on, if I do tick it then my playlists disappear. Is there anyway to get this to work?
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Make my "2000" playlist in the OP, but adjust it to limit to whatever the extra space is. If you've listened to the track recently it'll take it out. This will work better than the autofill.
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I've run into a problem that I think might have an easy solution that I am just not seeing. I have a Cat Stevens "Best of" CD with tracks before and after his conversion to Islam. I want the Artist field to read "Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)" for the tracks after his conversion. The problem is, when I do this, All "Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)" tracks are listed AFTER his other tracks. Is there any way to make iTunes treat both Cat Stevens and Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) as the same artist? Another question, is there a way to change iTunes's sort priorities? I'm not sure if that's the right way to phrase that, but is there a way to make it so that iTunes sorts my entire library in the order Artist > Year as opposed to Artist > Album? I'm sure there must be a way to do something like this that I am missing. Thanks! 
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Purple Rain Man posted:Is there any way to make iTunes treat both Cat Stevens and Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) as the same artist?
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Set it to "Stevens, Cat" really.
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Purple Rain Man posted:Another question, is there a way to change iTunes's sort priorities? I'm not sure if that's the right way to phrase that, but is there a way to make it so that iTunes sorts my entire library in the order Artist > Year as opposed to Artist > Album? I'm sure there must be a way to do something like this that I am missing. Click on the header that says Album by Title or Album By Artist, there's a selection for Album by Artist & Year.
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Dimentia posted:Click on the header that says Album by Title or Album By Artist, there's a selection for Album by Artist & Year. Doing this messes up a compilation of 40 tracks I have. They will be sorted together as an album, but this is what I don't want to happen. I am looking for a way to make iTunes sort everything by artist, and then all of an artist's albums by year, so that my compilations don't get sorted together. Is there a way to do this easier than going through and filling the "sort artist" field for all of these tracks? @hirvox, thanks! I knew I was missing something simple.
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Purple Rain Man posted:Doing this messes up a compilation of 40 tracks I have. They will be sorted together as an album, but this is what I don't want to happen. I am looking for a way to make iTunes sort everything by artist, and then all of an artist's albums by year, so that my compilations don't get sorted together. Is there a way to do this easier than going through and filling the "sort artist" field for all of these tracks? Where do you want the compilations sorted if not together? I think you're going to have to either use the Sort Artist or Album Artist fields to fool around with how you want the compilations sorted. I just set each compilation album's Album Artist as "Various Artists" and use the "Group Compilations When Browsing" field so each album is listed alphabetically under "Various Artists".
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Man, I did something to my music. I bought an new computer, and can't add some of my music to iTunes. I can play the songs in other music players on the computer, but they refuse to be added to iTunes. This same music worked fine on my old computer through iTunes but is now acting a fool. Some of the songs go in no problem - others, just don't work. In one case, one track from an album worked but none of the others one did! Googling has led me to some suggestions around repairing the files via a scanner of some sort. Any thoughts?
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Is there any way to get rid of the banner at the bottom of the Purchased playlist that advertises "Download Previous Purchases" ? I've looked all through settings and nothing seems to do the trick - not even disabling the iTunes Store using the Parental Controls.
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 12:22 |
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I suspect downloading all of your previous purchases would do it.
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| # ? Jun 27, 2011 13:39 |
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Is there any way to organize iTunes itself so that, if I have multiple seasons of a TV show in my library they show up as 1 unit instead of as separated seasons. I mean, its not the most massive problem in the world but I would just prefer it if they were more like organizing albums by artist in grid view.
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Kelly posted:Googling has led me to some suggestions around repairing the files via a scanner of some sort. This was buried earlier in the thread for someone else having a similar problem - I hope it works for you: thiazi posted:I had a similar problem a few years ago, and apparently it was due to corruption/errors in the mp3 files themselves which many other programs just ignore but iTunes crapped out on. I used mp3val (http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/) to scan and fix them, then had no issues adding them to iTunes.
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