Bulk Edit in iTunes

When I go to edit a batch of files in iTunes (say all of my Podcasts or music to make them all the same volume), I get this message "Your selection contains more than one kind of media. All items must be the same kind in order to view or edit them together." All of omy music is the same kind (MPEG) and shows as such when I view Kind in the sort-by. I want to edit my entire library but since 11.1, I can't because apparently my files are not the same kind even when they show as being such. What is happening here?
And while I'm at it, I miss being able to delete Podcasts and not just see them in the subscription list hovering in the cloud. I want them gone so as not to clutter everything.

Hmm. This is really weird - the greyed-out issue describes and perhaps explains one mismatch, but I've got another pair that makes no sense at all:
Both files are "Media Kind: Music", both with black, and easily changeable.
Both in iTunes Media/Music folder.
Both AAC audio files.
Both with file suffixes m4a (and yes, that capitalization).
Yet I'm unable to bulk edit the two of them. Even if I change both of them, separately, to Audiobooks, they still can't be editted together. The only difference I can see in the Summary file is "Encoded with" (iTunes v6.0.1 versus v6.0.2).
As a side issue: when you Get Info for one track in iTunes, are you able to use the Previous or Next buttons? My system hangs when I try do that, and eventually I have to Force Quit iTunes.

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Hello,
Last night I bulk edited my library from media kind "music" to "voice memo." This worked fine. Everything is now set to voice memo. However, I am now trying to edit selected albums back to music, and this does NOT work. But it DOES work if I select each song individually and change it.
This is incredibly frustrating.
Anyone know why this is? Or better yet, does anyone have a fix or a script that will allow me to select a batch of files and change the media kind from voice memo to music?

I discovered from a tweet by @dougscripts, that it is simply not possible to do en masse or with a script: "@dougscripts To all asking: AppleScript cannot change the "Media Kind" property of a podcast track to a music track."
(I had changed mine for the same reason regarding iTunes Match, and also unsuccessfully tried the same 2-step process.)
But, I did figure out a workaround that will save your sanity.
1. Add all the tracks you want to change into a single playlist.
2. Then use a mouse recorder (I used this one http://www.jitbit.com/mac-mouse-recorder/ ... the demo lasts long enough for you to change what you need to).
3. Record the action of changing 1 track from voice memo to music manually.
4. Set the mouse recorder to repeat the amount of times as there are songs in your playlist.
(You won't be able to use your computer while it's working, so if you have a huge library it's best to do it while you're sleeping. Also, don't speed up the playback of the action too much, as it will fail.)

Bulk Edit ID3 Lyrics Tags

I'm in the process of adding lyrics to my music files (>26,000). Quite a few of my music files are instrumental only, and do not have any lyrics. I'd like to indicate the lyrics as "Instrumental," but don't want to have to press Option+I and manually insert this for each and every file.
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Since iTunes has basically cornered the market on music players and the such for Macs there aren't many alternatives being worked on, especially free ones. There's free Mac tag editors at http://www.mp3machine.com/mac/ID3-TAG/freeware/ but as you can see most of them are at least 5 years old.
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Can I manually edit the iTunes Music Library.xml file

Here's why.
Noticed on my Apple TV that there were a number of podcasts that when selected would say "Apple TV cannot play the current song".
Looked in iTunes and these podcasts are no where to be found. Did some searches in Spotlight and also, turned up zeros. Not found.
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What is odd is that the location of all the bad songs have a similar invalid path.
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Now, all of these have dates that lead me to believe this was due to an iTunes upgrade back in September of 2005. It doesn't look like they are causing problems with iTunes itself. However, it is quite annoying for my Apple TV.
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I did some additional testing here and I deleted the track information from the iTunes Music Library.xml
On start up of iTunes, it does not add the deleted file back in. On the Apple TV, it still shows the bad file.
What I think that means is that even the Apple TV gets its playlist information from another source.
I have also started on another track which is to remove all of my podcasts from iTunes. Which I have now done.
The only ones left are these bad tracks that only show up in the iTunes Music Library.xml file and more importantly on my Apple TV.
I'd put this on the podcast or the Apple TV thread, but still believe this is an iTunes issue.

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Hello to all,
I have spent a significant time of my life to keep my music folder very well organized. Then after a few years, I discovered itunes and I started to organizing and tagging my music files through itunes. Everything works well with no problems....
Now, here is the thing.
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Abhijit,
Frankly I have never been able to get the bulk edit tool to work.
I know few other people had success using it but for me t always hanged up and froze when I tried to use it. Since this is not officially supported any more, I can only suggest that you try a different
solution or start looking into the source code itself.
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gogasca at cisco dot com
HTH
//G

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