Converting iPod Mini music to 5G iPod, losing artist information!
I had cleared out my iTunes on my hard drive, and then dumped the contents of my iPod Mini's hard drive onto my PC to re-consolidate it within iTunes so I could dump that music into the new 30GB 5G iPod (Video) afterwards.
When it got transferred, much of the artist, album, and title of the music was lost, replaced only with random 4 letter alpha titles...
For example, a DJ Baby Anne set I had on the old iPod Mini that was completely filled out within iTunes now only reads "CWWT" for a title.
Does anyone have any information regarding rescuing this artist/title/album information so I won't have to go back and manually listen to almost 2,000 songs that are in this same "ABCD" format?
Thanks,
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when it got transferred, much of the artist, album, and title of the music was lost, replaced only with random 4 letter alpha titles...
This is only the filename. The song name/artist/album etc., should have remained untouched, since this information is actually embedded into the audio file and stored in the ID3 tags.
You can ignore the fact that the filename has been renamed to XXXX.MP3. iTunes doesn't care about that. It will look inside the file for the track info.
When you import all of those XXXX.MP3 files back into your iTunes library, the song name/artist/album/etc. should populate into your iTunes library.
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