Edit song information.

In ITunes 11 I am unable to edit song information. I need to
a) add am album name for Italian audio books
b) Add these and others to the Written word genre/ Chagne other genres.
I am not interested in playlists at this time, please do not suggest. Just need to know if it is possible to change genre and add album info.
AND
In the change from 10 to 11 several Podcasts were moved to music. Is it possible to move them back to Podcasts.

Highlight one or more tracks. Press CTRL-I to Get Info. Edit away. If all the fields are greyed out you may have a permissions problem.
Podcasts need an album name. If they don't have one that might explain why they've been "kicked out" of the Podcasts section. A previous build made tracks set to podcast with no album name apparently vanish from all areas of the library. Having set an album name you should be able to change the media kind to Podcast and have it stick. Might be best to set the genre to Podcast also.
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I suddenly have not been able to edit song information, using file, edit, get info.
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I just switched over to a Mac
This is the Windows forum.
You should post in the correct forum here -> iTunes for Mac
Anyway, select the \Music\iTunes\ folder, right click - get info.
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Editting song information

Hey guys.
My problem is as written as the title, editting song information. I am unable to edit song information, such as lyrics, artist, etc. of my music files through iTunes. According to the other discussions, unchecking the "read only" option from the files in Window Explorer will enable me to edit the song information, but when I checked, none of my music files were marked "read only" in the first place!
I'd be glad to hear any possible solutions, so please post below
Information about my operating system is provided in the post.

Hello yukawai,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Edit song and CD information
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12360
Have a nice day,
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Right-click on your main iTunes folder and click Properties, then go to the Security tab and click Advanced. If necessary grant your account and SYSTEM full control of this folder, subfolders and files, then tick the option to replace permissions on child objects which will repair permissions throughout the library. This is the XP dialog but Windows Vista/7 shouldn't be too different.
If it won't let you change the permissions use the Owner tab to take ownership from an account with administrator privileges.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12360
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No. Sort the list on a field you're not changing, or copy everything to a playlist, sort it the way you want it, right-click on the playlist name and click Copy to Play Order, then sort on the heading of the left-most column of number.
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Having the exact same issue as the OP....really frustrating. I'm also using win7 64bit. I have tried reinstalling iTunes as well as resetting my iTouch back to factory.
Whenever I try to sync my iTouch or add music I get errors such as:
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3) "The iPod "My iTouch" could not be synced. A duplicate file name was specified."
4) "The iPod "My iTouch" cannot be synced. An internal device error has occurred."
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Editing song information

I have downloaded a bunch of music (mostly live shows) that I am now trying to go back and edit the song/artist information associated with each song. A have two questions:
one, I assumed that itunes would work like a spreadsheet and allow me to edit multiple rows (eg songs) at once by dragging a single change across multiple rows. It appears that you have to go into each song individually through the "get info" path? true? seems pretty clunky?
Second question - some songs I am able to edit information through "get Info" but other songs (from the same source) the text fields are grayed out and I am not able to edit text? How can that be? Consider 10 songs from a live show - 5 of which I could edit, and the other 5 which were grayed out making the current text not editable? What gives?
Any thoughts greatly appreciated. thank you.

About the first question:
iTunes uses Windows selection option, so just ctrl+click to select more than one item, or shift+click to select a range of items. Be careful, because if you change, say the track name, all of those items will have the same name.
About the editing, the most likely thing is a Read-Only protection on the files. Right click on one of them, hit Show File, then right click>properties, uncheck 'read only'.

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Sometimes Windows will mark files read-only, such as when they've been moved around a network or taken off a disk. Read-only files can't be edited in iTunes. To see if your file is read-only, select it in iTunes and press Ctrl-R. Right-click the file, and choose Properties. Remove any checkmark next to read-only. This technique works on a whole group of files too, so you could quickly remove the checkmark from all your songs if you need to.

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Change it in iTunes, not on the iPhone. Then sync the iPhone to transfer this new info to the iPhone.

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I want to edit the song infomation. but when i go to Get info and the folder where the artist, album, track numbers, etc. it won't let me change any of that. how do i get rid of this because i can't manage any of my music

Make sure they are not read-only. You might also need to take ownership and full control in vista permissions.

Can not edit song information.

I have a huge amount of cd's that I have backed up on my external hard drive. I have added them to my iTunes library and play them regularly with no issues. I want to make some edits to the songs in the "Get Info" section but some songs are grey'd out and will not allow me to make changes.
Does anyone know why?
thanks in advance for our help.

The usual cause is that the files have become set to Read Only. Go into Windows, right-click one of the files, look at Properties. If Read-Only is checked, uncheck it.
If that doesn't do it, the problem may be permissions on the folders rather than the files, in which case we will try to call in Dr. Katrina.

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