Editing song albums

I'm trying to edit my songs and have tried the "get info" way because it has worked in the past and it is not working on every song. I just downloaded 30 new songs from iTunes and only about 20 will allow me to change the album information. I also cannot change the "grouping" setting on those same songs. Is there some kind of block? I'm on a Mac.

What have you tried? There are multiple ways of renaming songs and info in iTunes.
1. You can simple click once on the song title wait like 2 seconds and click again, then it will bring a typing box over the title which will allow you to type in what you want.
2. You can hold down CTRL before clicking on a song title, then go to Info (which it should be the first option you have to choose from) then you need to move over to the next tab and you can change all the artist, title, and album info as you please.

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How do I edit songs on my wife and I's Iphone? We both are different tastes in music and I simply would like to clear out all the music I don't like.

Download itunes to your laptop or pc. Connect your phone and sync. Click on music and edit songs, albums, photos and so on. Sync your pnohe again. All done.
Good luck

The drop down view by menu (Song, album, etc) at the right side of the iTunes window is like a ghost. It flashes into view for a millisecond once in awhile but never lets me click on it. Anyone know what this is about and what to do?

The drop down view by menu (Song, album, etc) at the right side of the iTunes window is like a ghost. It flashes into view for a millisecond once in awhile but never lets me click on it. Anyone know what this is about and what to do?

Short answer:
Click Hide Song(s), it is what you wanted to do...
Long answer:
iTunes in the Cloud is a feature of your iTunes store account that allows you to redownload or stream your past purchases. When you delete a purchased track that is downloaded to your computer (like the first one shown here) you are asked if you also want to hide the song from iCloud. This would remove it from the computer and also stop it showing up with the iCloud symbol as the other tracks from that album (which are not downloaded) do.
If a track shows with the cloud symbol you can play (stream) it by double-clicking the title, or click the cloud symbol to download a local copy to your library. If you try to delete one of these tracks you get a slightly different message confirming that you want to hide the track. Clicking hide will remove the listing from the library and any other device that shows your past purchases.
Should you want to retrieve any item hidden in this way at a later date use Store > View My Account > iTunes in the Cloud > Hidden Purchases > Manage.
To hide all your previous purchases that are not downloaded to your computer use Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases.
tt2

What is the easiest way to edit song info in iTunes?

I had Windows Media Player as my default for ever on my computer. iTunes doesn't let you right-click to edit songs like WMP and I'm trying to get all my stuff off "Unknown album/title" etc. since for some reason when I imported everything it couldn't bring the names of tracks with it?

Select one or more tracks, press CTRL-I to Get Info.
Are the tracks in question in .wav format? No tags there, so nothing for iTunes to read other than the filename. I have a script that get more data provided iTunes hasn't "helpfully" rearranged them.
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Un able to edit song info in itunes 7

I am currently organizing and fixing some errors in my itunes library and i'm having extreme difficulty editing song info.
For example about half of my songs show up as blues in the genre category. So i've gone through and changed them to rock, electronic, etc. The info will change but when i double click on the track (play the track) it changes the info back to the previous settings. I went to itunes help which instructed me to uncheck "organize itunes library" in order to write the new info to the file. But this has not worked either. this is a very frustrating problem because GNDB has given some very wrong info about album names and and info and i can't reorganize it.
Another example is a CD by Blockhead the album title is Music by Cavelight. Only 3 tracks have the correct album title the others are Blockhead Music by Cavelight, for some reason the artist name is included in the album title. When i correct the tracks that have the improper album name they do change untill the song is double clicked on, and then it resets to the previous name.
Please help i am a DJ with lots of music and organization is KEY!
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Select one or more tracks, press CTRL-I to Get Info.
Are the tracks in question in .wav format? No tags there, so nothing for iTunes to read other than the filename. I have a script that get more data provided iTunes hasn't "helpfully" rearranged them.
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How to edit music album names - too long to display in Ipod

How can I edit music/audio album names. I don't really care about music but I have a lot of audio files and they all have the same name, followed by "Disk 1," "Disk 2," etc. The problem is that the "Disk 1" doesn't get displayed because there's not enough room on the Ipod display. I would think I could edit this in Itunes but don't see how to do it. I would like to1 shorten the title so the "Disk 1" can be displayed. Hope that is clear.
Thanks for any help.

You can edit album names in iTunes on your computer.
Select all of the songs in the album, Select Get Info from the File menu, edit the Album name in the Info tab of the Get Info window and select OK.
This will change the name of the album. Note that you must change the album name for all of the songs in the album or you will end up with two albums.

Issue when editing songs in "Get Info"

Hi there!
I've been having this issue for quite a while now. At first I was able to deal with it, but now it's getting pretty annoying.
My issue is the two options to go to the next song or previous song have dissappeared when I'm editing songs in the get info tab. I have made sure that I am editing songs in an album, but the problem is still happening.
The red circle is where the buttons usually are. I'm not sure if iTunes has taken these options away with the newer updates, or if I clicked something by mistake. If someone else had this problem and figured out how to fix it, it would be great if you could share how with me!
Thanks,
melongeee

The buttons should be there. As a workaround do Alt+P and Alt+N still perform the Previous and Next functions?
For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
tt2

Editing song and CD information.

I am setting up new Smart Playlists and I want to organize the albums in each playlist by Genre. Example: my Christmas albums will have the Genre of "Holiday" and a Smart Playlist is set-up to collect all my Christmas music. Unfortunately, I found out that some of my Christmas albums were originally loaded into iTumes with a different Genre other then "Holiday". I went into iTunes Help and found the article that dealt with Editing Songs and CD Information. I selected one of the Xmas albums and followed the instructions of going to File > Get Info. This brought up the album information and the Genre was showing "Country". The editing routine let me go to this field and select a new Genre of "Holiday". Unfortunately, no matter what I do, the change I am trying to make will not stay. I make the change and click on OK at the bottom of the screen. But when I go back and check to see if the change is there, it has reverted back to the original setting of "Country". What am I doing wrong?

Try clicking once on the on the song you want to edit then click again on the field you want to change to open the text box. I found that this works for me. If you double click too quickly the song plays instead.

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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Song/Album info keeps reverting back to old version when played on itunes

Hello everyone,
I am having trouble with iTunes 6 reverting my Track/Album information to the original when I select the song or album to be played. I have re-organized my library's live albums' names to start with the year in which it was recorded rather than original album name; however, when i click on a song to listen to it, the song moves- when I click to show the location of the song playing, it is back listed under the album name that I just edited... any help would be greatly appreciated, this is quite frustrating!
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It sounds like you actually want/need to update the tags of the songs and not just rename them. That's the only way this can be properly handled in your iTunes library.
Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to Edit > Show Browser so you can easily navigate through the albums you've already got. Now, once you select an (improperly named) album from the browser, you isolate all the songs on that album. Just select them all (click one of the tracks and press Apple+a), then press Apple+i to edit tag information. Click the Info tab, and there you can enter the desired/modified album name in the Album field. Once you've done that, click the OK button.
Another alternative is to display the Year tag in your iTunes library. That way you don't need to edit the Album tags (unless you still want to). To enable the display of the Year tag, go to Edit > View Options and check the box next to Year, then click OK. When you return to your iTunes library, a new column will be added for the Year tag.

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iTunes keeps me from editing song info or art on some tracks.
This happens all of the time, with no ryhme or reason that I can understand as to why it picks the ones it picks...for example:
I just tried to edit 4 tracks i had imported the mp3s of. I highlighted all of them, and changed the album art. 2 tracks changed, and the other two still had no art. I highlighted the two of them, and changed it again, this time 1 of them changed. I tried playing the stubborn track, and now it has a odd characteristic that wasn't there before i started this...now when I start the file playing, it plays the first 1.5 seconds, then plays them again, then plays the song. iTunes seems to think this is normal, and doesn't skip backwards...it just plays it like it was added on making the song longer. I try to add the art again...no luck...now there are 3 unwanted introductions...try again? now there are 4. Still no art. This completely perplexes me.
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Sounds like the ID3 tags are messed up on those songs.
iTunes imports using v2.2 tags. Convert the tags to v2.3 and try adding the artwork.
Right-click > convert ID3 tags
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When editing songs I've added from other sources or things I ripped years go, I used to have the option to edit one song, then press "Next" and that would allow me to edit the next song in the album, or list I was working on. In iTunes 11, the option seems to be missing. I now have to edit a song, press "OK", then click on the next track and select "Get Info". Is there a way to re-enable this option? Making managing my library very tedious.

Hi,
Try editing in song view. It works as before but does not work in album view.
Jim

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You've gotta love iTunes..
The last couple of days iTunes refuses to add songs/albume/artist etc name when importing music. Sometimes buying music at work, bring it home to load it into my iTunes here. I am doing nothing to the album, just burning it as it is. When I get home I put the cd in and iTunes finds it through Gracenote and everything looks to be in order. But upon importing all info about every single track is gone. All I get is # 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc and so forth.
This is starting to make me angry. Any solutions out there?
PS; tried importing both as mp3 and with "apple lossless"
PS2; tried importing three times now, and track # 1 and 2 is there, as they should, but the rest of the 30 tracks are just numbers.
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I'm brand new at this, but I think my problem is similar.iTunes only imports the titles of songs from a CD.When I sync with my iPod,that's all I get.(The titles.)That goes through a CD fast! =:O

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How do I edit the song/album name as well as the genre, etc of a song in my music Library? (I tried iTunes Help, and when I would type in "Edit Song" and hit enter, the little Help box was completely blank, although what I'd typed remains.)

Do you have a small area at the top right to type a question? If you do, try typing a question and see if results appear. Otherwise it looks like something didn't install with the initial installation. You could try dragging the iTunes Application to the desktop and re-downloading and re-installing. Open iTunes by double-clicking on the App in the Applications folder. The Dock icon still connects to the App on the desktop. If it works drag the Application from the desktop to the trash.
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