Full song name

I have a few albums by Sufjan Stevens. If you are familiar with his albums, you will understand that I cannot enter some of the full song names. Is there a mod or other iTunes device that I may use to input full song names and exceed the character quota?

regardless of the music status or not, they still share the same core music player as the XpressMusic line. so the scrolling of the file names should work but it does not. although drastic, a Restore to factory settings may be in order here, because as far as i know, there are no options for this scrolling within the phone menu. if you do decide to proceeed with a Restore, remember to backup all your data first as per proper precautions.
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Since the Music Store "upgrade" in iTunes 9 I can't see the entire name of the songs listed in the search results. The store only displays ~20 characters and some songs I am interested in buying are longer than that. For instance if I want to download a specific mix of a song and the store truncates the name with an ellipsis I have no idea which version I am looking at/listening to. Sometimes when there are many results there will be an option to "See All" and that has expanded fields, but if there are too few I'm stuck with partial song names. Am I missing how to expand the name field somewhere or is there another fix? BTW this is the worst version of iTunes I have used. It behaves like a windows app. GG Apple.

One way is to play a song's preview and note the information displayed in the iTunes progress bar.

How do I keep MY folder and song names when converting?

I am trying to convert a whole library full of my song files and iT is renaming folders and files.
I also posted this problem in "Using iTunes." Then though maybe I was using the wrong forum. So I am trying here. Sorry if this is bad, let me know.
I'm lost and confused. During converting files (from MP3 to AAC) iT breaks up my folder full of song files and redistributes the files under newly created folders. For example: I have a folder I titled, "Latin-Mixed." In it are about ten songs by different groups. After iT made the conversions I found ten folders, each was named by the name of the group or artist, and in each was a song file, sometimes with a new title different from mine - like, mine was "01-Compay Segundo-Chan Chan." iTunes changed it to "Track 1." Sometimes the reverse occurs. All I had was a track number, but iT found the full song title and put it in (that part is a plus).
Right now, I am manually dragging each song back out of those individual folders and recreating my one folder (Latin-Mixed) and putting them in it, trashing all the folders iT made. What a pain.
Can anyone help me with this?
noodlehead confoun..ddeD
G4 desktop Mac OS X (10.3.9)
G4 desktop Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Mike
First of all, thanks a lot for your help. I AM learning. But you are correct in your closing assumption, not quite clearer than mud. Are you willing to go a little further with this?
I'll take that as a yes. Here goes.
You wrote: "No you don't have to drag a folder to the iTunes window. What I an referring to is that you have selected the top tab of the Source column, named "Original" and that is how you are viewing the tunes in the main window."
What do you mean by Original?
I keep all my music on an external drive. But this is not my Music Folder. Since iT and I have been struggling, I have assigned my Music Folder on an internal drive but use it as a temporary holding area. As conversions are complete (now, compilations, thank you) I drag them off to my permanent external drive. So I thus clear the main iT window of everything by deleting what was there and was converted. I also have multiple Libraries. This one I have called "Conversion_Lib." So, is what you are referring to as Original, my Conversion_Lib?
Assuming the last sentence above is true, then my problem goes back to the first question: if I don't drag a folder of tunes into the main window, how do they get there? And if I select the top tab of the Source column (my Conversion_Lib?) then I have a blank window.
OK. Moving on.
You wrote: What you could do is take your tunes and assign them to various albums named the way that YOU want the music files to stay nested. For example - X-mas 1 mood 1 - X-mas 2 mood 2, Latin mix Salsa, Latin mix Samba. Assign the tunes to those various folders then make sure that you have told iTunes that those songs belong in a compilation.
"Assign them to albums..." "Assign the tunes to those various folders."
You lost me here. Do you mean take a group of tunes on my hard drive (the ones I want to convert) and put them in folders (your "albums?) and name those folders as I want? Like the example you gave above. Which is basically what I have now - but on my hard drive, not in my Music Folder. (Is this where I am losing you?) But, assuming this is the case, what do you mean by "assign the tunes to those various folders?" Isn't that what I just did?
Next you suggest, "Ok you have sorted your tunes and assigned them to an album named XXX. sort your tunes in the iTunes window with "Album", then select all the tunes assigned to album XXX..."
Lost me again. Assign them to what album, where? Do you mean create a folder in iT? I'm really lost here.
If you can get me past these questions, the rest of what you wrote, I think I can understand and actually do.
You're really being helpful and I appreciate it. I've already learned a lot.
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How do I get iTunes 11 to display full album names?

I miss the old iTunes already.
My main question is how do I get it to show me my full album names as in album view? It always shows thumbnails of the albums, seems you don't get another choice for how to view your albums...you're forced into what Apple thinks is great, and these thumbnails only have a max of 9 characters before the rest of the album name is not shown. Quite frustrating.
Secondly is there a way to get iTunes to show me my songs like before where the album cover could be seen along a list of all my songs?

I have the same i liked the carousel thing showing my albums cant find a way to dsplay it either luckily its still on my i phopne

Itunes cuts all my song names down

Can anyone tell me why or offer me a soloution to why whenever i add songs to itunes over a certain character length (36 chracters i think) It automatically shortens it down.
This really is a royal pain in the arse as i have an extensive dance music collection, most of which being remixes and every time it does this i have to go and find the full name and keep renaming them.
Can anyone help?
Cheers.

Subzero,
I'm guessing your problem may not be a limit iTunes imposes on the length of Song Names or any other entries but rather how much of that information it is actually displaying.
And the good news for you is that you can adjust the width of the various columns in the iTunes Library display.
To do so, position your cursor over the divide between two column headings and drag the divider to the right or left. This will make the column wider or narrower as the case may be.
By expanding the Name column it will display more information, as much as you deem necessary.

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Hi, Sanjiv - My son fixed this problem for me by showing me that in addition to the visible volume slider at the top left of the iTunes window you also need to pull down the blue airplay menu right alongside that volume slider (the little blue box with the triangle). When you pull down that menu you will see volume settings for "computer" which controls the built-in speakers, plus a list of the other external speakers you may have set up using Airport. When I did that I saw that the volume on "computer" was right down at zero levl even though the main iTunes slider was at full level. When I selected the "computer" under "single" or "multiple" options and adjusted the volume it came back up. It worked for me, I hope it solves your issue too. Best, John.

Song names imported as "artist - track name" instead of "track name"

When I add a folder to my library (a folder which contains MP3 files which all contain complete ID3 tags), about 50% of the song names get imported as "artist - track name" instead of just "track name". If I click on any track which was imported like this, and right-click and select "get info", the track name shows up correctly in the dialog box, and it suddenly fixes the display on the listing (without me doing anything).
I could fix each song by clicking "get info", but I would have to do this for all my songs, which would take far too long. Is there any way to get iTunes to import these track names correctly? Or is there a way to refresh the listing, and have iTunes re-read the ID3 tags on the MP3 files?
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To get the track names etc., when importing a CD, you have to be connected to the Internet.
This article explains why.
To get the info later, select all tracks (with the generic track names) of an album and choose 'Get CD Track Names' from the Advanced menu in the menubar.
Very often the correct information will show up.
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M
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Only parts of my songs from itunes match are downloading onto my phone. The full song plays fine on computer but not on iphone

I recently purchased Itunes match to download some of the songs from my library onto my phone. Everything downloaded fine. At least I thought, until I tried to listen to my music on my phone. I found that some of the songs that were downloaded from the itunes match are not fully there. The full song plays fine on my computer, however on my phone it will only play a part of the song and then immediately cut off and skip to the next song, while the display still says the other song should be playing. I tried turning off the itunes match and just re-synching the music from my computer itunes library to my phone but still encounerted the same problem. Is there an easier way of fixing this, or do I have to basically restore my whole phone?

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When I load a cd into my computer it does not show the album name or the song names. Does anyone know what I ma doing wrong

From iTunes 101 http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/tunes/2/#1
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2. If your computer is connected to the Internet, iTunes will automatically display the album title and all track names (if the album is listed in the Gracenote CD database).
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Why do the song names and cd name not show up on the Shuffle?

MysticChyk wrote:
Why do the song names and cd name not show up on the Shuffle?
Err this is no longer April 1st you know.
The iPod Shuffle has never had a 'display' on which track names can be shown. See http://www.apple.com/ipod-shuffle/ if you want an iPod which does have a display on which you can see the tracks names and even the album cover art then look instead at the bigger and more expensive iPod Nano http://www.apple.com/ipod-nano/ or iPod Touch http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/
PS. The current iPod Shuffle even though it has no display on which it can show the track names can read them out loud to you using a voice-synthesiser this is the VoiceOver feature described on the iPod Shuffle product page I listed above.

Song names do not show up in library

while importing from a cd ,the song names show up ,but not in library once import done?
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From iTunes 101 http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/tunes/2/#1
1. Insert an audio CD into your computer.
2. If your computer is connected to the Internet, iTunes will automatically display the album title and all track names (if the album is listed in the Gracenote CD database).
Regards
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I can no longer play my music from iTunes on my computer. i get the error prompt: The song (name) could not be used because the original file could not be found. What do I do?

not sure what to add other than to repeat myself. ive lost ability to play music from my iTunes library on my computer. Everything is there but i get an error message that says '"The song (name) could not be found. Would you like to locate it? Then it gives me the option to locate or cancel. i can't do that for 3800 songs!! i have all my music in separate folders by album and all individual selections in an external hard drive. i can play from there but thats clicking on one number at a time. i lost my capability in the process of Microsoft correcting a problem with my outlook program. Why, i haven't a clue. help!!

This happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
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I tried to play my iTunes and suddenly get an error message that says "The song (name) could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it now?" It happens on all my tunes and each one I select ends up with a "?"

I tried to play my iTunes and suddenly get an error message that says "The song (name) could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it now?" It happens on each tune I select and a "?" appears beside the song. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I was not complete clear.
Since you never changed the settings in the advanced section of iTunes preferecnes, you have to chech that your music is really in the location setted in the folders reported in the advanced section. If not you have 2 ways: reset the position of this folders or in the actual disk organisation or in the pointing on the preferences.
If you press the reset button you just give to itunes its default setting as for the position of the music files: probably this will be a good choice if you have never changed any default preference.
But before I would check the folders and see if the songs are really there
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