ITunes changes my song titles why???

When I enter my song titles many times I will add some descriptive word to the title for my own information - only maximum 6 letters . I also include the artists name with the song title..
iTune changes the title sometimes it just enters the song title and other times it will enter the song title with the artist name within the song title and other times it just shortens the entry.
Does anyone know if there is a setting that I can change so that iTunes enters the song title as I have entered it. I have looked and cannot find anything.
My song library is almost 5100 songs and I use 2 ipods with my songs on them.
Thanks for any help.

Hi. Can you tell me where you are editing your song titles. Is it in iTunes once you've added them to your library or are you renaming the file name then adding into iTunes? Thanks,

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ITunes changes my song titles

Anyone know if there is a setting that tells iTunes to enter a song title just as I have entered it.
I add a 6 characted set after the song title for my own information. Most of the time iTunes ignores this and just enters the song title and ignores my additional entries.
Anyone know of a fix?
Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Hi. Can you tell me where you are editing your song titles. Is it in iTunes once you've added them to your library or are you renaming the file name then adding into iTunes? Thanks,

Song Name in iTunes shows Artist & Song title, but ID3 tag is Correct

I recently recreated my entire music library on iTunes (6000 songs) by adding the entire MyMusic folder. I noticed that all the song titles had the Artist name then song name (this caused problems when I did a sync with my iPod). When I went back into my iTunes, if I played the song, the Song Name would change back to the Song Title (without artist), but I don't want to do that with 6000 songs. I wiped it out again, and started to add 1 folder at a time, and it seems to be fine, but again, I don't want to do that for every folder.
Does anyone know why it does this when I add it all at once, and how can I prevent it. All my ID3 tags are fine (I've changed a bunch with MediaMonkey). Should I try a different tag editor? Any ideas?

iTunes labels the songs by the track name only.
iTunes prefs -> Advanced-
Uncheck *Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library*.
The files will remain where they are and not be copied into the iTunes music folder.
Uncheck *Keep iTunes music folder organized*.
This will leave the file names alone.

Itunes altering my song titles

I like to have my song titles capitalized.Yet when i alter the song titles in their folder by editing the id tag, and then import the folder into itunes,the lower case letters are back.Is there any way to stop itunes doing this

Yet when i alter the song titles in their folder by editing the id tag
Are you editing the filenames in the folder or editing the ID3 tags?
iTunes doesn't care what the file name is. It will use the ID3 tags.
When you edit the info in iTunes, it will change the ID3 tags. If the songs are in the iTunes music folder, iTunes will change the to match the song title ID3 tags.

Itunes rename smy song titles

When I play some of my songs in my itunes it renames then to the track number in front of the song title i.e. Champagne Supernova becomes 12 Champagne Supernova. Any ideas?

Yet when i alter the song titles in their folder by editing the id tag
Are you editing the filenames in the folder or editing the ID3 tags?
iTunes doesn't care what the file name is. It will use the ID3 tags.
When you edit the info in iTunes, it will change the ID3 tags. If the songs are in the iTunes music folder, iTunes will change the to match the song title ID3 tags.

When I transferred my itunes library, several song titles have odd characters in them

I transferred my library from PC to Mac - some song titles that look OK on PC have odd characters in their title on Mac - why? These songs still play fine and I can find no other problem with them.

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ITunes changes my song tags

Hi,
every time I add my music folder to the iTunes library some track names end up getting a different tag. I'd estimate that it's about 1/6 of all my songs that this happens to. It's basically every track on certain albums. Most tags change to this format: http://bayimg.com/image/haoabaabn.jpg (the highlighted one I've clicked on and thereby changed the tag to the correct one)
By just playing/double clicking these tracks the tag changes to the correct one but it's kind of exhausting to click on 500 songs. It would've been fine if I only were to add my music folder once to the library but I add it on the regular to make sure that I synchronize all my songs to my iPod.
I'm guessing someone else must have had this problem and hopefully it can be solved.
And while I'm writing this post I might as well ask another thing. The iTunes default sorting is pretty bad in my eyes. A few things that irritate me:
* Artist who have the 'The' article don't get sorted under 'T'.
* Albums are sorted by name, not release year.
* Artists whose stage names begin with a number don't get sorted at the top.
* I've tagged track numbers as 1, 2, 3 and so on. Since there's no 0 in front my whole track order gets messed up on my iPod, although not in iTunes. :S
Pretty long post but hopefully someone will be able to help me. Thanks in advance!

Thank you for your answer. First of all, I managed to get albums sorted by year now so thank you for that one. Too bad I can't do the other changes. I tag all my songs in an application called 'Mp3tag' and I've been consistent on tagging track numbers as 2 for example instead of 02 or 2/14. I guess I'll have to fill in the 'x of y' in iTunes then so I can get the correct track sorting in iTunes.
Furthermore I don't think it's WMP that's changing my song name tags. I never use the program itself although I use Media Player Classic for playing videos. I tested adding my music folder to the WMP library and all the song tags were correct although some artist tags were wrong, but that's not important.
And just a clarification: my topic is kind of incorrect maybe 'cause iTunes isn't really changing the tags per se. It just shows the wrong song tag and just by clicking on the track it changes to the correct one as I've already written. I would've never minded if it wasn't for the fact that those wrong tags show up in my iPod too.
I use foobar2000 for audio playback and everything shows up just fine in it. A solution to the problem would be if I could play or double click all my songs at the same time but I can only assume that that is impossible? Do you perhaps have any idea how I can solve the problem?
Thanks!

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Whenever I try to edit song info, it wont let me... itunes turns grey
this also happens when i upload songs

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ITunes changes my song info

For some reason, iTunes likes to keep changing the info for my songs, like genre, album, comments, etc. This results in duplicate songs on my iPod, which is quite frustrating. Is there an option I can turn off or some other way to prevent iTunes from changing/filling in song info?

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I upgraded to itunes 10. A week later I moved my library to an external drive following the instructions in the support section. I have done it twice before
successfully.
When I open itunes it is completely empty. There are no titles/albums/playlists.
The bar on the left shows playlists names, but when I click on them nothing appears.
I am able to play the tracks from the folders in finder, they play in itunes, the name of the song appears in the player. But this issue makes my itunes player application pretty useless.
I tried uploading itunes 10 again. still nothing. I am in a bind.
any suggestions?

No, iTunes remembers the info from when it was burned.
Insert the CD on the original computer.
iTunes menu Advanced -> Submit CD track names.
When you insert it in iTunes on another computer, it should look up the info at Gracenote.

EVERY TIME I sync my iphone with itunes, I LOSE SONGS. WHY?

What's the trick?

Do you have the songs selected to sync in iTunes?
Take a look at this Apple doc -> iOS: How to transfer or sync content to your computer
Click on the iPhone on the left side of iTunes, click Music across the top of the screen and make sure the tracks are selected.

We are currently having troubles with our iTunes. Playing different songs and randomly it changes the name of the song to pink time after time. We could go through 5 songs before it will change the next one to song title time after time and artist pink

Hi I am having trouble with iTunes! Randomly when I click on a song in iTunes it changes the song title to time after time and the artist is pink.
I could click on 4 songs and they will be normal but then the 5th one will change the info to time after time.
I haven't done anything different or new, it started doing it all of a sudden, well that I have noticed anyway. Please help.

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How do I get the song titles to appear when I burn a playlist from iTunes?

I burned a playlist from iTunes, and the song titles on the burned CD changed to Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, etc. How can I get the song titles to appear as they do in iTunes? Is this really too much to ask from the world's leading music player software?

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ITunes changes my song titles why???

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