ITunes is messing around with my files
I just bought my first iTunes music, a double disc. I wanted iTunes to list the two discs as separate albums, so that it wouldn't mess up the track listing, so I went to the file properties and added disc 1 or disc 2 to the album name. I also changed the file name to start with, for example, 01 instead of 1-01 for the first track of the first album, and I put the tracks in two different folders.
Now when I open these files with iTunes, the file names are automatically changed back to what they were when I bought them, and they're moved to a folder called "<album name> dis" (the album name in the properties - minus the "c 1" or "c 2"). None of the properties are changed, however.
How can I make it stop do this?
Don't change filenames. iTunes will name the file based on the track name.
How can I make it stop do this?
Edit what you need to in iTunes.
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