How can one prevent iTunes overwriting personalised tagging on iTunes purchases?

How does one prevent iTunes 11 overwriting custom tags on iTunes purchases? I have a very specific tagging scheme and I do not appreciate my tags being ovewritten by iTunes 11 back to those embedded at purchase causing disorganisation of my iTunes library and iPods
(For example, I have different genre and sort artist fields that are more suited to my filing system.)

Are my purchased songs automatically being added? How do I prevent them from being added?
5502,
You can do that from the iPad itself.
Go into your iPad and touch the Settings icon. Then, from the left-hand list, choose "iTunes & App Store."
This will give you a section about "Automatic Downloads." There you can enable or disable Music, Apps, and Updates.

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JasonFromSK wrote:
With the newest Airport firmware (7.6.1), it seems I should be able to do this.
Really? I need to check that out!
You should certainly be able to add content by reference to itunes from such a disk (even before the update) - so long as itunes knows the location of the file (set Preferences not to copy to local library when adding the media) it will stream it to AppleTV if the disk is available.
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AC

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Hello how to use this,
The article linked below details how to go about viewing your purchase history in the iTunes Store.
See your purchase history in the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2727
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I know that syncing apps to your computer backs the app(s) up so you don't have to download the apps all over again, but for me it doesn't hurt to start all over downloading all the apps one by one. I have an iPhone 6 on iOS 8.1.2, one day I started syncing the iPhone to the latest version of iTunes 12 on my Mac running Lion (10.7.5). I was trying to sync new music onto the phone but iTunes insisted on syncing all 50 or so apps, half of them about 500MB or more, then on the halfway mark iTunes would not respond, I force quitted, reopen iTunes, and get a popup saying "The iTunes Library.itl is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file." I had to grab all of my music, books, and tones folder to my desktop, delete my iTunes library folder, and rebuild my iTunes library all over again putting all of my media back into the iTunes library folder. I did this so many times, sync, quit, rebuild library and get the same results. This irritates me because not only does it consume time, but it takes up space on my mac. Is there any way to prevent iTunes from syncing all of my apps to my Mac?

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How can i prevent itunes from splitting individual albums into multiple albums?

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It's probably better to put Various Artists into the Album Artist box rather than just "various". Make sure it's the Album Artist field though. In addition, you need to mark the album as a compilation. When setting the complete album, the Part of a compilation is on a drop-down menu on the File/Get Info/Options tab:
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Troy Yoho wrote:
Can iTunes run at the same time on 2 machines and access the same library?
in a way, yes.
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How can I use iTunes purchased music on non PC devices?

I have an audio component that is a music server that is connected to my home audio system. The hard drive based music server has a front disc tray that you can use to rip CDs to its hard drive, but you can also copy music to it from a PC, as the server is connected to my home network.
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Burn the tracks out to an audio CD (make sure it's set to burn an audio CD, not a data CD, in the iTunes preferences). That CD can then be reimported as MP3.

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That sounds like a good guess.
I know nothing about TuneUp or how it works, and I can't recall where iTunes keeps it's Artwork, but they may very well be related.
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Hello,
I would appreciate if someone could give me some advice on the following. I tried to google it/use the search function, however, it was quite hard finding a precise search term.
Let me try to explain the setting conceptionally without much code first.
Three stateless session beans - let's call them BeanA, BeanB and BeanC - perform some specific tasks. Especially, they are using JPA to create and manipulate persistent entities. Clients like graphical user interfaces access these beans. I call them internal clients because they belong the same company like BeanA, BeanB and BeanC. Internal clients can know how to handle exceptions which are thrown in the beans.
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Hello to all,
thanks again for your suggestions which proved to be valueable hints!
I'll tell you so far the lessons I've learned.
1) Using interceptors (suggested by malrawi)
This would have been a very nice solution, however, it turns out that the problem remains - the exception thrown by the container after the commit is not caught. Here is the code I used
    @AroundInvoke
    public Object convertException(InvocationContext ctx) throws InternalErrorException {
      try {
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@Resource SessionContext ctx;
public ReturnType doWebserviceFunctionality(ParameterType parameter) {
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// web service class
public ReturnType doWebserviceFunctionality(ParameterType parameter) {
   try {
        beanZinstance.doActualWork();
   catch(Exception e) { // Map exceptions here
// bean Z class
public ReturnType doActualWork(ParameterType parameter) {
       beanAinstance.doWork();
      beanBinstance.doMoreWork();
      beanCinstance.doFinalWork();
}4) Using soaphandler (suggested by zsom)
This seems like a good idea but it is also the most complicated and a bit more low-level. But I will check it out in more detail, I think.
Thanks again for your efforts and I still appreciate any feedback!
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Refer to article TS4123. Follow the step to identify which software in your system is the culprit and uninstall it.
iTunes 10.5 for Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
Last Modified: November 28, 2011
Article: TS4123
Symptoms
You may notice the following symptoms after installing iTunes 10.5 for Windows:
iTunes is slow to respond
Windows is slow to respond
iTunes stops responding when backing up or syncing with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Some processes installed by iTunes are using up a lot of resources in the Windows Task Manager.
iTunes Store looks empty and white as shown below:
Products Affected
iTunes Store, iTunes 10 for Windows
Resolution
Look for modifications to Windows by:
Running MSINFO32 by choosing either Start > Run, or using the search box to search for
Once it is open, expand Components and then expand Network.
Click Protocol. The first value should look like this:
However, if you find a value that is more like this, it indicates that there's an LSP (Layered Service Provider) monitoring your computer:
"<LSP Info>" is variable and may specifically mention a software suite, or appear to be a meaningless acronym
Scroll through the list on the right and look for any LSPs that have been installed by third-party software. By default, the Windows OS will have 10 values:
MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP]
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP]
RSVP UDP Service Provider
RSVP TCP Service Provider
MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip...
The value above repeated 5 times with additional variables at the end
Note:811259.Once you've identified the third-party LSPs, determine which software placed them there. Here is a partial list of LSPs you might run into and the software that may have placed it there:
Product or Manufacturer
LSP Name
Bigfoot Networks
BfLLR over [MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IPv6]]
ByteMobile, Inc.
BMI over [MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP]]
Covenant Eyes
Covenant Eyes Monitoring over [MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP]]
PC Tools / Spyware Doctor
PCTOOLS over [MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP]]
SafeEyes
Internet Content Filter over [MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP]]
SpeedBit Video Accelerator
SBLSP over [MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP]]
VMWare
VMCI sockets DGRAM
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Note:locate vendor information
Reset the WinSock key
If you are unable to identify the software that installed the LSP, you are unable to remove this software because it performs an important function for you, or you've removed this software and the issue persists, you may wish to reset the WinSock key.
To do so, please do the following in an administrator user:
Windows Vista and Windows 7:
Windows XP:Enter the following command:
netsh winsock reset
Restart the computer and test the issue.
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