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Does 8 or 9 handle really large libraries any better than 7?
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chimz posted:Yes, but it still has issues. It is faster at starting up and shutting down, but many actions still cause lag. Around 60,000 songs. I imagine that any action lag is inevitable after a certain point, unless I put everything on SSD  EDIT: this stupid new window in iTunes 9 that shows up when your playlist is blank is going to drive me beserk.  That, and how when you go to edit multiple files the options like gapless album, compilation, etc. are all removed from the main window to Options. Bleah. Chris Knight fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Nov 6, 2009 |
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Nov 6, 2009 15:18
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OK, an actual question that's been bugging me since I decided to try to consolidate a lot of the music I have lying around. I have a bunch of custom compilations that are made up of individual tracks fully tagged with the source Artist, Album and Name. What I'd like to do is group by a custom Album tag somehow without losing the individual Album tags. So I grab one of them, put Sort Album as eg. "Great White North, Volume 3" and check Part Of A Compilation on. However, when I go into the iTunes Library, "Great White North, Volume 3" doesn't show up as one of the Albums listed, it seems to just grab one of the original Album tags and throw everything under it. All the tags were ID2.3 before I started, so there should be no 1.x ones lying around to confuse the issue. Maybe what I'm asking for is impossible? I started small, just 2 custom comps and one regular album: 
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Nov 6, 2009 17:44
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SineOtter posted:I've been trying to figure this one out myself for a while. It seems that, unless there's something titled with the actual title you're using for Sort Album, iTunes will just pull the album title from the first track and use that. 1) Took my own advice and realized I had 1.x and 2.x tags, so converted them all to 2.4 and killed the 1.x tags, which is always what I'm preaching here  2) Used Media Rage to export all the tags to a delimited file, cleaned that up a bit, then imported it to Excel just to ensure I had a list somewhere, 3) Used Media Rage to move existing Album tags to Comments, 4) Used iTunes to clear out any previous useless Comments, then retagged each volume of the series under the Album tag, ensuring Compilation was on. It worked like a charm, and then I retagged a bunch of other custom comps in a similar way. It's like I always say around here, convert your 1.x tags to 2.x unless you have some crappy device that can't read the new ones, they'll only cause you pain.
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Nov 14, 2009 18:18
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HammyJ posted:Sorry about that, I leave the Album field blank. After looking through some other forums, I think I have figured out the problem if any one has a similar issue. On some of the newer software, if you have an artist that only has one album, the ipod will just skip over the intermediate screen between artist and album and go straight to songs. It's supposed to be a convenient feature, but if you have random songs of a certain artist that are unsorted, it does not display them.
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Nov 14, 2009 20:36
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Astro7x posted:Is there any easy way to do a mass bitrate reduction on my iTunes music library? I'd save over half my collection is over 192 kbps, and I just don't need it any higher than that to be honest... I'm estimating that I could lower my music library's size by 25% if I could get the bitrate lower.
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Nov 25, 2009 17:03
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I said come in! posted:I have my music collection on my PC, and I want my itunes on my Mac to access those files. This is possible, except for one issue; Itunes wants to copy everything over from the PC to the Mac, I don't want it to do this. I want it to stream the music over the wifi network. Is there way to set this up? Failing that, is there a better 3rd party mp3 player app that will do this?
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Jun 17, 2010 06:16
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SMP posted:Is there a good way to convert a bunch of video files to the ipod touch format? Handbrake seemed to be the perfect option...but I can't add more then one file at a time.
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Jun 26, 2010 17:51
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Linux Nazi posted:Not gonna lie, I am a little perturbed by how difficult apple makes it for you to copy items from your own media player. I love my ipod but I'm going to definitely look at other, more open players when I replace it. It shouldn't be this hard, and it sure as poo poo should be a native feature of itunes if they don't let me explore the device ala disk mode like on my old ipod 3g.
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Jul 11, 2010 19:44
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Abel Wingnut posted:Has anyone had trouble with Fluke, the FLAC enabler for iTunes, as of late? I installed it, restarted iTunes, and iTunes still won't recognize FLAC files. There's next to zero support for it as well. However, that's not what you asked. Are you using the set-OggS on the FLAC files to set the filetype first?
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Jan 22, 2011 21:22
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chomper posted:A small issue is bugging the gently caress out of me. It's kinda OCD, I know, but there must be some way to fix it.
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Nov 8, 2011 04:29
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I think my favourite feature of iTunes 11 is the way it'll peg a core to 100% while in the background, either doing something simple like streaming a radio station or doing NOTHING AT ALL.
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Dec 6, 2013 03:07
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The weird thing is it'll stop immediately as soon as I make the main iTunes window active. So I know the cure but not the cause.
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Dec 6, 2013 13:55
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Other favorite iTunes 11 bug: the LCD display part with the song title and scrubber will just go blank at random times. GG Tim.
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Dec 19, 2013 04:23
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Dubstep Jesus posted:Does iTunes store whether or not you've "loved" a track as an ID3 tag or in the library file? Library file.
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Jan 29, 2016 17:01
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Well, like a lot of things, it's optional metadata that doesn't apply outside the application itself.
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Jan 31, 2016 19:22
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Weedle posted:When I maintained an MP3 collection I used Mp3tag to do all of my tagging (and embedding of high-res artwork) before iTunes ever touched the files. Editing metadata in iTunes is still a nightmare because after over a decade they still haven't fixed the thing where it will randomly split albums up into two entries if you mass edit the album artist tags. If you remove the album from the library and re-add it, it will display ok. Also iTunes Match uses acoustic fingerprinting not tags to match, but yeah always fix your tags before running Match anyway.
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May 3, 2016 17:00
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Yeah fair point. I just always make sure I have backups of anything I wash through Match.
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May 8, 2016 01:12
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I had to use 12 to backup my old phone/activate my new one, and holy balls does the interface make no goddamn sense.
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Sep 28, 2016 17:37
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh why is the sort order a-z then 0-9? Because more things are named with letters than numbers.
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Nov 14, 2016 23:18
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TACD posted:Yes and yes. And just for funsies, I tried unchecking 'Compilation' on a single track in an album; for an album under the 'Compilation' heading it will pull the entire album out into the main list and for an album already in the main list it does nothing. In either case the whole album is displayed together even though the individual track gets moved to its own directory. Check for the Album Artist tag as well, or the sort by section.
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Sep 19, 2017 12:49
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Wulfolme posted:Apparently this problem is old: I load my phone with songs by dragging and dropping them from folders on my PC. Once on the phone, every song believes it is part of a unique 1-song album, and some artists don't even appear at all in the artist listing. Check your id tags?
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Jun 3, 2018 04:11
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It happens. Like I had the two solo albums from Marian Gold matched, but when I listened to them a couple tracks were corrupted. A second attempt at matching failed because they were no longer available on iTunes anymore.
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May 20, 2019 06:12
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Try uploading it manually to https://imgur.com/upload and going from there. If you try to do it within the Awful app, it'll try to use the Imgur API, which has limits and can time out.
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Dec 5, 2019 21:18
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Violator posted:Does anyone manually manage song data like Genres? With Apple Music, I have a poo poo ton more songs now and browsing is becoming difficult because everything is so spread out. I don’t need five different sub genres of Raggae listed, and I don’t need an artist to have music in several genres if it’s all the same god damned stuff.
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Mar 6, 2020 04:32
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This is the company that sent out an iTunes update that would erase your hard drive if it had a space in the name. You know, the company that names your boot disk "Macintosh HD" by default.
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Sep 23, 2021 00:39
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I needed a way to get a report of some sort on the cover art size of all my music. After a whole lot of useless Google search results and a few tries of CLI shenanigans that didn't go anywhere, I stumbled upon the Mac port of mp3tag https://mp3tag.app and a post on its support forums from 2018 asking for that exact feature on the then Windows only version. Did the trick for that one specific thing I needed, so I'm gonna try using it as a replacement for the rather long in the tooth but still usable MediaRage.
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Oct 24, 2021 17:16
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Ugh I think I found an incredibly annoying itunes bug, but it may just happen to be my drive setup. Normally if you have it set to manage your library and you add what could be duplicates, it'll add them to the library based on the tags, and in the folder where the files are it'll add eg " 1" before the file extension on the duplicate files. I tried adding a bunch of new songs of higher quality but same file extension to my library yesterday, and that didn't happen! The new songs showed in the Library view, but in the folded on the drives there were no renamed dupes. May be because I'm using a JBOD for the library? I dunno, in all the years I've been using iTunes I've never seen it just drop new dupes, it always renames them to keep both files in the folders.
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Nov 21, 2021 16:34
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I'm not keeping them, but in some cases albums have different song lists depending on the release. Or I might have a compilation that has the same version as the album, but I might want to keep that one if my album is of lesser quality, etc. What was happening is some of the tracks were vanishing on disk, but the iTunes library showed both, with the two entries in iTunes pointing to the same file. So as I'm thinking that I'm deleting the lesser quality version from the library, it was in fact removing the newer, better one instead. With the previous version magically gone without any indication.
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Nov 21, 2021 18:30
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It's easier to see now that I'm back at the computer and can do some screenshots. Regular CD version of the album, in iTunes and Finder:   After copying the hi-res version to the "Automatically add to iTunes folder": all the conflicting items are replaced with the newer ones in Finder, but iTunes still shows both   Normally conflicting items would be renamed with " 1" before the extension. Now it just wipes them out. Selecting what i think I think is the CD quality version of a track and selecting "Move to Trash"  deletes the newer hi-res file instead, because both entries point to the newer file only.  Forcing itunes to update itself by playing through the tracks, it's now showing dupes of the newer versions: 
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Nov 21, 2021 19:02
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Anyway here's what happens on El Capitan on my old laptop with iTunes 12.8.something, which is what I'd normally expect: LIbrary shows dupes fine:  Renamed dupes showing in the Finder fine:  That is what's supposed to happen. I retagged two of the files since I've seen they're different mixes, but in my previous example I wouldn't have been able to compare their lengths because the old ones got wiped out before I could do anything.
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Nov 21, 2021 20:29
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Minidust posted:I may be misunderstanding, but could you change the Sort Album metadata before importing, to force iTunes to maintain two separate albums in your library? Looks like i"m not the only one who found this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252655823 quote:1.4 - Issue not found
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Nov 22, 2021 23:32
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Interesting update: if the newly added songs aren't named the same as the original ones in the iTunes library, it'll rename the new ones with the "space & number" before the extension to not collide with the originals. First try, I added "Sisters " to the filename ahead of the track number and dropped them on "Add Automatically to iTunes", then tried again with just putting a dash between the track number at title. No silent deletes:   So I think i'll update my renaming recipe to put a dash after the track number, and shouldn't have any collisions!
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Nov 25, 2021 01:45
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Radirot posted:i hate itunes match.. or music match or whatever its called. some songs don't want to be matched no matter what even if bought elsewhere like bandcamp.
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Feb 21, 2022 21:58
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