Does iTunes provide access to album notes?

I'm a classical music lover, and when I purchase CDs there are always liner notes with translations, artist bios, etc. Some sites offer this as part of the album download, but I've not seen this on iTunes. Does this feature exist?

Not for most albums, no. There are a few albums that are "iTunes LP" that have such extra material, and those will be identified as being those.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2010/07/itunes-lp.html
That never really took off, though, so such albums are rather a small percentage of all available. There's a list here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_LP
but I don't know if it's comprehensive nor current.
Regards.

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What information does iTunes use to retrieve album art?

too bad we can't bring up a list of possibilities from Gracenote, like it does when it's confused about a CD you're importing
Good idea!
Send suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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ITunes 9.2 Whole Albums Not Playable

Since upgrading to iTunes 9.2 whole albums (some of which purchased through iTunes) are unplayable and now have no artwork.
Some of the content is MP3 format, some is M4A.
I've tried creating a new user and launching iTunes from there but the problem persists. I've also trashed the prefs and the problem is still there.

your profile suggests you're on OS X 10.4.7. if that's not the case, please update your profile accordingly !
anyhoo, try this:
check if you have read & write permissions for your music folder. in finder, right-click on it and +get info+. unlock the little padlock (you may have to enter your admin password) and change the permission settings. next, click on the little gear-shaped icon and +apply to enclosed items+ like so
you may also give everyone read & write access.
JGG

What do you do when iTunes provides the wrong album art?

What do you do when iTunes downloads the wrong album art? I haven't found an easy way to override this or notify the iTunes store about it.
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Specific current example is the Amon Tobin album "Chaos Theory". The artwork was correct on this until just recently. Currently the artwork downloaded is for the Chaos Theory Remix album (for both the original album, and the remix album).
Who controls this? The content publisher (e.g.-Ninja tunes)?
Thanks

Go into the track ot tracks en block and get info. Go to the artwork tab and delete the downloaded artwork. Google to find alternative artwork and then add it to the track(s).

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So I added an album to my iTunes that I was sure was not in the store, and it wasn't - it's a rare instrumental version of somewhat-rare album, and definitely out of print regardless, eBay has 1 copy for $83 - however iTunes "Matched" it all, and didn't "Uploaded" it...
So my question is this, is it either:
1) iTunes just uploaded my files and mistakingly indicated the album was Matched and not Uploaded?
2) iTunes matched my album with ANOTHER user's version already uploaded?
or
3) iTunes really does have the album in their database, just not in their store, and they are indeed matching my album to their files and letting me download nice 256k versions to other iOS devices??
I would appreciate any input or thoughts, I didn't see this situation listed anywhere else...
Thanks,

Interesting, Thanks.
I also tried to verify this by purposefully introducing some artifacts into a track, then adding it to iTunes Match again, "Matched" not "Uploaded", then downloading the matched copy to check, and sure enough there was no artifact. So it's either NOT just a version of my uploaded copy, as we think, or it was my previously saved upoloaded copy since I matched it with iTunes a second time, or it's someone elses...
I think the best explanation is like you describe, they have tracks in their database available for match that they do not make available in the store.
Anyone else experience something like this?

Why does iTunes spend ages processing album artwork for no apparent reason?

I have a 65,000+ files on assorted drives. I tag in another ap, so I don't use iTunes to get artwork. However, everytime I add files to my playlist it insists on "processing album artwork" for every file, even if there isn't any, or if the files are being re-added after being moved to a different drive. What is iTunes up to, & is there any way of disabling it?
On a related note, it would be really useful if iTunes could be set to search certain folders for altered, moved or deleted files & update the library automatically. Any chance this could be introduced in a future version?

No, it isn't! Maybe I should check it, then restart iTunes, uncheck it again & restart iTunes again. Might be worth a try.

Why does iTunes keep loosing my Album/Movie artwork?

Periodically my artwork will disappear from certain items in my iTunes library. If press Get Info the artwork gets restored.
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B) how can I do the equivalent of Get Info for everything so I don't have to go item by item pressing Get Info? Get album artwork doesn't seem to do it... doesn't work at all for movies..

Hi, vcharisse.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I understand that you are receiving an alert that your connection timed out when restoring. This usually means that there is a USB or security software conflict. I have attached a couple troubleshooting articles that provide solutions for this issue.
Resolve USB-related alerts in iTunes
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Why does iTunes display the same album art for different songs, but from the same artist?

Hi,
a couple of days ago I decided I wanted all of my songs to have an album art. Before I didn't actually care, but since I discovered the view mode with the album arts at the top (the fourth one) I began searching for the right arts, since I like it this way.
I've stumbled upon a problem though. When I add two or more songs from the same artist, iTunes chooses to assign the same album art to the songs. It chooses the album art of the song I added first to my music library. How do I get it to show the proper album art?
I use a program called 'Mp3Tag' to change all the information of my songs. When it's just a single, I end up having an 'artist', 'title', 'genre' and 'cover'. The rest of the information doesn't bother me. With albums I add more information though.
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I added two songs, one being 'Usher - Climax (Kaskade Remix)' and the other one being 'Usher - Scream'. The one added first was 'Scream'. As you can see below, iTunes somehow assigns the same album art to both songs, while clicking on 'get info' clearly shows the songs have different album arts.
I discovered something else though:
When adding an 'album name' to the songs, they will show properly, as seen below. The thing is though, I don't want to add an album name. When I sync the songs to my iPod, my 'albums' list will show all of the songs as well, which I don't want.
Is there any way to solve this another way where iTunes won't sort by album, but by song title?
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Can anyone please answer my question?

HT3814 Why does iTunes on my MacBook Pro not remember/save edited info about CDs? It does on my G4.

I haven't used iTunes in awhile to play CDs. Lately though it is not remembering CD info I put into iTunes. I have been using iTunes since the late 90s. I have always been able to edit info for ANY CD I play on iTunes and that computer would remember that info. Lately my MacBook Pro isn't remembering this info. I am able to edit CDs on my G4 Powerbok and it is remembering the info. (The G4 is using 10.4.11 and iTunes 9.2.1 (5). I am using 10.6.8 and iTunes 10.6.1 (7) on the MBP.) This used to work on the MBP but I haven't dealt with CDs in 6 months or so so I don't know more closley when this behavior changed.)
I've had a go-rounds with Apple Care. Some say I have to import each track for iTunes to remember any edits on that track. I tried that today and that appears to be how things work now. That was not the case up until now. Has iTunes changed how it works?
I realize that iTunes will read file names on the CD if they are burned into the CD. I used Toast for some recent CDs I burned on the MBP awhile ago and voila, those files names are appearing whern I pop the CD in. I cannot edit them so that iTunes remembers them though unless I import whatever track I wanted to edit the info from. OK. That's a step backwards but OK. (I realize I am not editing the info on the CD itself. Once a CD is burned that's impossible, I would only be editing the info that iTunes has about it...) Most of the CDs I have burned do not have track titles as file names.
I know about the CD Info.cidb file. That is where info that I add manually (and info that Gracenote adds, which I also can edit...) gets saved. In the past I could edit ANY CD, regardless of where it came from, and that info would be saved in that file. That is not happening now.
I have moved the CD Info.cidb file to my desktop and edited some info. ITunes is NOT creating a new CD Info.cidb file.
So, has anything changed with iTunes or is there something else going on here? It could be a third-party app or an OS problem.
Thanks for any help.
Cheers,
John L
PS Apple Care is looking into this some more and will call me back next Thursday if not before then. My fingers are crossed that will have some info that is helpful. If I now have to import a track so that I can edit it (and save that info) on a CD, well, so be it but it doesn't seem to be a step forward...
PPS For some reason, Apple put this under the iTunes Store. I would have put it under just iTunes. I forget the page where I asked the title of this question (which has since been edited). It then brought me to this particular forum. I would have moved it if I could...

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HT3209 I have a MBP w/Retina Display, why does iTunes say HD content will not play on my device?

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FRUSTRATED:Simple Tasks - Am I missing something or does iTunes fall short?

So last night I became VERY frustrated because I attempted the SIMPLE TASK OF COPYING MP3 files to a flash card and ran into SEVERAL snags...
I wanted to copy just my MP3 files (not AAC) and ran into the following snags:
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3) Then when I tediously selected about 40 albums (song by tedious song) it wouldn't copy them over. Apparently it was too much data to handle. So I had to reselect albums in groups of 10 (song by tedious song). Is it true iTunes can't handle more than a few MB of data at a time?
4) After this tedious FLASH card backup I synced my iPod and low and behold I couldn't sort by GROUP which is how I classified all my music since A) every time I set a custom GENRE and tags, it would default back to the often WRONG GENREs that Apple had assigned after "GETTING TRACK INFO or ALBUM ARTWORK." Isn't there any way to sort by GROUPS on the iPod? Is there any way to assign CUSTOM GENRES and not have them go back to the default and often wrong default settings that iTunes assigned?
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Bonus questions...
Why does iTunes break up some albums into a few songs at a time and not others? I can't get them back together unless I select COMPILATION, which it might not necessarily qualify as?
Half of my CDs I copied over to iTunes sound great on the computer but tinny and play through the right speaker only. What settings should I use, because the default ones don't sound good.
Why does iTunes keep CONSTANTLY interrupting/stalling my computing when it is just copying CDs. I thought the whole point of selecting COPY CD and EJECT in the preferences was to eliminate this. [I'm running on a brand new MacBook Pro with MAXIMUM memory available]
The icing on the cake is that I couldn't finay ANY MANUALS for iTunes on the APPLE.COM site and only incredibly rudimentary video tutorials that cover little. I also have the official Apple book on iTunes whih doesn't cover ANY of these topics
Finally , are there any good alternatives to iTunes as a database and e-jukebox?
THANKS to ANYONE who took the time to read this FRUSTRATING VERBOSE NOTE.

1) I COULD NOT FIND ANY WAY to burn songs or play list to ANYTHING other than CDs and I had way more data to transfer than would fit on a CD. Isn't there ANY WAY to copy songs to a flash drive?
Just find the tracks in iTunes, mount the flash drive, and drag the tracks from the iTunes window to the flash drive. Or find them in the iTunes Music folder and drag them to the flash drive.
2) I couldn't find a way to select Full Album from the album list. I just wanted to view "Album View" as to choose from artists and pick an ENTIRE album skip a few pick a few more ENTIRE ALBUMS, skip a few, etc. I could not find a way to select an ENTIRE album from the Album List without selecting EACH song INDIVIDUALLY. It IS the ALBUM LIST chy can't you select an entire ALBUM? Am I missing something?
Turn on the Browser view; View menu -> Show Browser. The you can just click on an artist and then click on the album.
Why does iTunes break up some albums into a few songs at a time and not others? I can't get them back together unless I select COMPILATION, which it might not necessarily qualify as?
Make sure that the album titles are exactly the same. Even an extra space will make it a separate album to iTunes.
The icing on the cake is that I couldn't finay ANY MANUALS for iTunes on the APPLE.COM site and only incredibly rudimentary video tutorials that cover little. I also have the official Apple book on iTunes whih doesn't cover ANY of these topics.
Tried the iTunes Help? You might also find these helpful:
Installing iTunes and Getting Started
The New User's Guide for iTunes
iTunes 101
There are also a number of third-party books on iTunes if you want it all on one place precompiled.
Regards.

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