Can't edit informations or add artwork to certain tracks...

Hi all,
is there somebody that can help me with this?
I have iTunes 8. Among the several tracks i added to my library, there are some that are basically unaccessible: I right-click on them and go to the "Get Info" menu'; whereas the blanks can usually be filled and artwork can be added, these tracks seem locked... and the only visible informations in the blanks seem hard-wired into them... What can I do??
I've also gone into the hard-disk folder where the files are, taken off every kind of restriction/lock (always by right-clicking and going to "Get Info" menu') and re-importing them into the iTunes Library. However, same result...
Needless to say that the result is an anonimous cover in "Cover Flow".
Thank you everybody
alessio.cap

Hi,
I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with Mac file security, but on a PC not only would you you generally need to remove any restrictions, but you would also need to expicity grant your account permission to write to the file. On the PC these permission problems generally happen after the fact. The boxes are editable, and the screen may even update, but when you go back to the file the original values reappear. Are these purchased tracks by any chance? I bought some of the Pixar films from iTunes which had certain fixed fields similar to those you describe. In particular I recall the video kind was fixed to Movie which was annoying as I wanted to combine them into TV Show grouping in order to tidy up my library. Interestingly, iTunes 8 has removed this restriction for me, but perhaps iTunes has some undocumented locks on various fields which are affecting you. Have you tried a 3rd party tag editor?
tt2
Ah - as I was writing mine - you were writing yours...
Surely you can select the top level of your iTunes music folders & then explictly replace the permissions on all child objects, files & sub-folders in one operation to avoid further problems.
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