Adding/Editing ID3 Tags

I've been assigned the task of helping faculty with iTunes U and have a question concerning ID3 Tags. Is there a way of adding/editing the ID3 tags of QT files outside of iTunes and before uploading the .mp4 files?
Thanks
Jerry

Unfortunately Quicktime and iTunes store and access the metadata differently.
You will need to ultimately edit your metadata via iTunes for use via iTunes U.
Applescript or automator actions can save you a lot of effort.
Check out Doug's applescripts for iTunes to learn more.

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I am angry at myself for having upgraded to 8.1 before I knew that it's ok, and angry at Apple releasing this update with too many problems. Here is my list:
(1) I cannot change ID3 tags within iTunes for certain tracks. I usually click on one or several tracks, press Command+i for information, then change the desired tags (e.g. genre, album, etc.) and click ok. Only that iTunes won't let me write anything. I found that I have no longer write permission to exactly these tracks (my music is on an external LaCie Firewire800 HD). What I did so far:
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(2) Probably related to (1): certain files and documents on my internal hard drive have wrong permissions. Firefox for example is locked as read only, and I cannot update it via the "Check for update" in the help menu. I know there is an update available, as I am using 3.0.6 and the newest is 3.0.8. Repair permissions did not help. See the screen shot for the grayed out "Check for updates" menu entry.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6567/picture2rxl.png
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http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8702/picture1zkg.png

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http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/33/permission.png
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hi paperlion46,
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I tried editing the ID3 tags under the 'media' tab in
Libsyn by inserting the artist/track listing into the
comments box but that didn't work. I then read about
how to edit the ID3 tags using iTunes but that seemed
to refer to editing the tags in a dowloaded podcast
and not the tags on a podcast uploaded to Libsyn's
server.
When you edit the ID3 tags in iTunes, the information is stored in the file. When this file is subsequently uploaded to a server, and then downloaded by a user, the tags carry through and are available to the user's iTunes/iPod. So you need to use iTunes to add whatever ID3 tags you want before uploading your file.
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I'm trying to create a script that will search for a song, select it and (through virtual keystrokes) allow me to edit the name/album of the song in the "Get Info" pane. The following is what I have so far:
set _nameOfSong to "MySong"
set _nameOfAlbum to "MyAlbum"
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activate
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end tell
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Usual, when i play a song in iTunes, a speaker icon appears to the left of the song's name. The icon does not appear when I use the "play _song" command, which in turn prevents me from selecting it via commandL. What can i do to fix it? Is there any other way to search for and select a song via applescript?
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*tell application "iTunes"*
activate
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*repeat with _song in _results*
*select _song*
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*keystroke "i" using command down*
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*tell window 1*
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*click radio button "Info"*
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*end tell*
*end tell*
*keystroke return*
*end repeat*
*end tell*
*end tell*
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*set _results to rows of outline 1 of scroll area 2 of splitter group 1 of window 1 whose (value of text fields contains "garageBandSong1") and (value of text fields contains "OAC")*
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Itunes id3 tags help

here is the question:
in itunes no matter how many times ive tried ID3 tag editing and software for editing id3 tags the songs never stay in one album the songs split up and thier is like 10 songs in their own album when they should be together what should i do ive tried id3 tag editing it wont work..
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Apple have this help, which I guess you will have seen:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
There is a very comprehensive discussion of the issue in this post:
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I bought a Zen Micro some months ago, and I store many Mp3 files on it. However, I find it very tedious to edit the ID3 tags with Mediasource; otherwise than when copying a CD, you can't edit more than one tag at once, and this is a shortcoming as you might like to sort many different songs under a common genre, artist, album, etc without editing them one by one. Does anyone have any suggestions about a music program that allows more ingenious ID3 editing or have any other ideas?
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easy. if u have a zen micro, download the playsforsure firmware from the downloads section. when uve got it sorted and worked out how to use it (see a number of other posts on how to use micro with wmp0) u can edit id3 tag in windows media player.
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