Adding My Music to iTunes

I have 15,000 mp3's that I made from ripping my CD collection. When I add the files to iTunes, some come with all the data (Artist, Album ect) and some don't. I have looked at the files and it has all the data, If I use my Yahoo Music Match program all the data comes through but not in iTunes. if I check the properties of the file and change a piece of it's data (happy to Happy) it shows in iTunes. I'm not doing this with 15,000 files and I do not want everything listed as unknown artist.
Any ideas?

You will have to excuse me as I am a iPod Newb myself...
I think he means that he purchased the music once already, why cant he put it on other devices he owns. You think Apple could make a database of all the devices under one's name and limit the number of devices to something within reason (5 items?).
I have a similar problem/issue.... I just bought my wife an iPod after she liked mine so much from Christmas. To have to buy iTunes twice is a bit stupid..being as I can buy one CD and rip it to any of my iPods (legally).
I think this is a nice way for the iTunes store to loose business (as I wont buy anymore from them), and also encourage piracy.
Or....I guess the better question is can I sync say, my ipod to my wifes PC and load iTunes she has bought to my iPod and vice versa.
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HydroThunder wrote:
Greetings all, I am a brand new iPhone owner (my first smartphone in fact) and am very sad that I don't love my new device as much as I was beginning to. I've come into the Apple family with open eyes and heart, but I am heartbroken and mortified and what I've been learning this morning. I just spent five hours (no exaggeration) reading forums, downloading iTunes (which I don't really think I want, I am used to WMP and much more accustomed to it), downloading and installing an update, learning that certain options which were recommended are now gone unless you use secret commands (want to Add Folder to Library? Well, too bad! Unless you know the secret Ctrl-B handshake. Hope you didn't just spend tons of time adding items file by file before you learned that (by scouring the obscure forums for that information, since it's not common knowledge or readily accessible in iTunes now)!). Apologies for the sarcastic tone, still very frustrated with the whole process. I've seen support messages directing people to support pages with QuickTime videos; QuickTime doesn't install easily or quickly or work properly on my PC (perhaps I need to work with it more, buuuut...), it's all just seeming so....proprietary.
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Okay.
You are misunderstanding how this works.
When you add songs to your iTunes Library, all you are in fact doing is telling iTunes where (on your computer) to find the music. iTunes does not create additional versions of your music (see * below). iTunes is a database (or catalogue) - it simply lists your music and knows where it is so that it can copy it to your iPod.
Synced - synchronise... to make as one, to make the same as each other. Well, that's what my dictionary tells me anyway. To make iTunes and the iPhone the same, to have the same music etc. on or in each. (Subject to your preferences.)
HydroThunder wrote:
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Okay, I'l tell you that too.
It gets better. You can have a PC that you use, and have an iPhone that you use - and marry the two together blah blah blah.
Now that you have iTunes installed, at least you've got that far, although I can't quite imagine how it managed to take five hours. (You would have all these same issues if you were moving from iPhone to any non-Apple product.)
Secret menus, (CTRL+B etc.) - yes, there have been some very odd moves with all this "hiding menus" nonsense. But with the help of useful contibutors to these discussions, you will find iTunes easy. There are however, so many ways to configure iTunes, that everyone will tell you that everyone else's method is wrong.
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putting a CD into your computer's CD drive, and telling iTunes to import the CD. iTunes will make a digital copy, put it in a folder (in the iTunes Media folder) and list the album in your iTunes
buying music from the iTunes Store. The store will download the music to your Library.
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HydroThunder wrote:
There's really no way to simply have the phone take it from my hard drive?
That is precisely what iTunes is for - it's exactly what it does and how is does it. By the way, also don't let anyone tell you that you should use Manual Management to anage your iPhone. No one with any sense would use Manual Management. Why do housework, when iTunes can do it for you?
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 03/4/2011
Time: 10:49:37
User: N/A
Computer: USER42
Description:
Fault bucket -1955264157.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:
0008: 2d 31 39 35 35 32 36 34 -1955264
0010: 31 35 37 0d 0a 157..
=======================================================================
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 03/4/2011
Time: 10:49:15
User: N/A
Computer: USER42
Description:
Faulting application itunes.exe, version 10.2.0.34, faulting module itunes.dll, version 10.2.0.34, fault address 0x0046146e.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 69 74 75 ure itu
0018: 6e 65 73 2e 65 78 65 20 nes.exe
0020: 31 30 2e 32 2e 30 2e 33 10.2.0.3
0028: 34 20 69 6e 20 69 74 75 4 in itu
0030: 6e 65 73 2e 64 6c 6c 20 nes.dll
0038: 31 30 2e 32 2e 30 2e 33 10.2.0.3
0040: 34 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 4 at off
0048: 73 65 74 20 30 30 34 36 set 0046
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