ITunes auto shortening song names

Anyway of stopping it? it's getting very annoying when i see a song named "Perpetuous Dreamer - The Sound Of Go" when it should be something like "Perpetuous Dreamer - The Sound Of Good Vibrations". It's also renaming the song file itself. If it can't be stopped then can anyone recommend another good music player and database organizer beside windows media player

It sounds like the ID3 tag (part of the MP3 that stores the song name, artist, etc.) is using an old version (v1.1), which only supports around 40 characters for each field. To check the tag version, right-click on the song and select "Get Info". On the Summary tab, there is a field "ID3 Tag:" with the version number.
In addition, it sounds like you have iTunes set to automatically organize your music. When this option is set, iTunes renames the songs according to the tag. So because the tag only has 40 characters, it only uses 40 characters for the filename.
You can use iTunes to convert tags from 1.1 to 2.3 or 2.4 (I suggest 2.3 because not all applications support 2.4), but that won't fix the short file names.
If you haven't added all of your files to iTunes yet, you can fix the tags using an external MP3 tag editor like this one:
http://mp3tag.de/
Unfortunately for the ones that are already in iTunes, you pretty much have to manually fix them. That is, unless you can find another music program that can download track info from the internet and automatically tag your files with the correct names. I don't know of one off the top of my head.

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ITunes mixing up song names and the album artworks.

This is hard to explain but I'll do my best. For the record, I have 2 iPods that sync with the same playlist (iPod Touch 2nd Gen 4.2.1 for main music and iPod Nano 5th Gen for excercise). I decided to rip a recently purchased CD today and sync it to my iPod. I opened iTunes like normal and I noticed a bunch of unwanted songs in my playlist I use for my iPods. Upon investigation, I noticed the songs are my normal songs, but iTunes has given them the title and album art of a different song in my library. When I click Get Info the correct song name appears in the title box. When I click ok to get out of that menu, the song returns back to the normal title, artist, and artwork. (An example, a song titled Amarillo Sky by Jason Aldean was really Do I by Luke Bryan. When I left Get Info, the song corrected its info back to Do I) After rebuilding my entire playlist and having to re-locate several songs that were now listed under incorrect titles and artists, I syned my iPod nano and realized that some of the songs under the "Songs" category aren't in alphebetical order like they should be. This really bugs me as I like my songs to be in order. To make matters worse, iTunes insists on changing some of the songs back to the incorrect title after I fixed them (Love in an Elevator by Aerosmith keeps getting turned into Eat the Rich by Aerosmith). Any suggestions to fix this ordeal?

Try signing out of the iTunes store. If that doesn't work try rolling back to an older version of your iTunes database as described in Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash.
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Itunes cut off song names

My songs names are cutted by itunes, a tried to convert with the ID3 converter but nothing has changed...
Thank you for your help and sorry for my poor english.

If you mean that the file and folder names are cut off at 40 characters long, then that is a "feature" of iTunes for Windows.
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Itunes doesnt recognize song names??

I imported 5 cds the other day onto my itunes that is on my new computer and every single song came up as Track 01, track 02, etc. Do I need to reset something in itunes so it wont do this next time and so I can re import those cds again??? Please help!!
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hi perry!
were those "commercial" CDs? (purchased at a store?)
if so, itunes does an internet query to Gracenote to get the track information. if you're not connected to the internet, those songs will import as "track1" etc.
you won't need to reimport if they are commercial CDs. just make sure you're connected to the internet, select the songs in your library, and go "advanced > get CD track names" and that should pull down the info for you.
if they are commercial CDs, you're connected to the internet, and the Gracenote query still doesn't work for you, try checking through the possibilities in this user tip:
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Itunes Jumbling up Song Names and actual Files

Hi,
i've searched the forum google and everywhere and can't seem to find an answer.
recently my Itunes has been going a bit mad. I've selected a song say:
"Jamiroquai- Virtual Insanity" in the library but it will play a completly different song but keep the name as "Jamiroquai-Virtual Insanity", i know the tracks are named correctly so why would it do this? it only started recently just after i passed the 100,000+ track mark?
ive tried backing up the XML file, deleting the current data and restoring it and that didnt seem to help.. any more ideas?

I don't know what is going on and I have no experience of such a large library but a few suggestions.
Select a problem track but instead of playing it, select Get Info.
Check the tag data, is it OK?
Then check the file location on the summary tab is it pointing at right file?
If iTunes plays the wrong file, it suggests that the library is pointing at the wrong place.
If you suspect that the problem is due to your large library, you could make a smaller test library to see if the problem occurs there.
Close iTunes and drag iTunes library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml out of the iTunes folder to your desktop. (You can put them back later).
Now open iTunes and an empty library is created.
Try adding a few folders to see if the problem occurs. If not, try adding you whole iTunes music folder, does the problem occur?
To restore things, delete your test library files and copy the library files you dragged to your desktop back into the iTunes folder.

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.

Bug: iTunes Music Library Not Showing Song Name Category

As the title says: the iTunes Music library does not the track/song name category.
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Hi Bigfrank28,
If you appear to be missing music in iTunes, you may find the troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1408
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ITunes ignores "the" in song names, how do I disable?

iTunes seems to ignore the "the" prefix in song names.
However, when one of my songs for example is named "The World". I refuse to call it "World" just because iTunes has this ridicilous limitation.
So I wanted to ask, how do I disable this?

iTunes intentionally ignores articles (a/an/the) at the beginning of text for the purposes of sorting. "The Beatles" get sorted under B not T. You can override the default behavior by putting the original non-sort values in the corresponding sort field. So if you want a song called "The World" to appear with other songs that begin with T (in a lists sorted on song name) then change the sort name to "The World", instead "World", or leaving it blank.
If you want to completely eliminate this auto-sorting feature you should be able to adjust a file called SortPrefixes.plist (location dependent on OS) and remove the entries you don't want. You will probably have to reapply this fix after each iTunes upgrade and I don't believe the effect carries through to your devices.
See this thread for more.
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Song names do not show up on itunes from my own cd's

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
1. Insert an audio CD into your computer.
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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.
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Users/YOURHOMEFOLDERNAME/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music

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The song file or a folder in its path was renamed
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ITunes/iPod nano & chinese song names [please help]

i own an iPod nano 4gb.
first question is is there a setting i can choose (either in iTunes or the iPod nano itself) to make the on-screen iPod nano text appear larger than the default? anyone that has chinese songs with chinese characters will notice that the font as compared to english text is relatively lighter (not as bold). hence, it is harder to read.
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any information is much appreciated,
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first question is is there a setting i can choose
(either in iTunes or the iPod nano itself) to make
the on-screen iPod nano text appear larger than the
default?
No.
however, most
of my songs require a program called NJStar
Communicator (www.njstar.com) to display the chinese
characters -
I think NJStar uses an encoding which is not compatible with iTunes or iPod. You need to convert the ID3 tags of the songs that require NJStar to display correctly to Unicode. I have heard that ConvertZ is a program that might help do this.

IPod won't sync - "Itunes could not copy (name of song) to the ipod (name of ipod) Because an unknown error occurred (-53)"

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ITunes could not copy "Song Name" to the iPhone because an unknown error occurred (-50)

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ID3 Tag:            v2.3
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Thanks for your time.

Try going through other threads on topic
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