ITunes mp3 tagging issues

I'm getting so very frustrated. I have all my mp3 meticulously tagged in MediaMonkey. I added them to iTunes and a lot of them are in incorrect albums or have incorrect track numbers. this is the kind of stuff with mp3's that I thought was ancient history. I can't figure out what the deal is. If i tag everything in iTunes and then move it to my android phone too many tracks are tagged wrong. So if I tag with MediaMonkey, then everything is correct on android but still incorrect when i import back into iTunes.

itunes rips CDs using v2.2 tags. I immediately change it to None, and then go back in and change them to v2.3
right-click > Convert ID3 tags
itunes displays the highest-level tag on the Summary tab.
Other programs, such as mp3tag, show ALL the tags.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
edit - another thought, make sure WMP is set to not get info from the internet. That has changed many a person's music tags without them wanting it, even if they never use WMP.
On the general tab, library tab, and privacy tab in WMP.
Message was edited by: Katrina S.

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Assuming you use the iTunes default settings where iTunes copied added items to your iTunes folder and organizes your library (meaning - everything is all self contained in the iTunes folder), then all you have to do is drag & drop your iTunes folder (not just the iTunes Music folder you find inside the iTunes folder) to the external drive and copy the entire thing.
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Is there anyway to get Itunes to not read the tag information in an mp3 and only read the file name? Alternatively is there a way for it to not read genre, album, year etc. etc. and only read the artist and song title. I dislike thumbing through every collab project or album an artist has done just to get to a song.

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I've been changing and rearranging my mp3 library ever since ipods and itunes exist and consider myself a itunes power user but this has never happened before, I had not changed album info ever since I have updated to the newest itunes version (10.2.2.14) and from Windows vista to Windows 7 so I do not know what caused the problem. So here it is, when I change info for an entire album some of the songs will not keep the info and will change back to what it was before, sometime its the genre or album or even artwork 9 songs out of 12 will show artwork in the Selected Item/Now Playing window on the bottom left but the other three will show nothing...and sometime it'll show an almost similar artwork the in a different shade (you can see it's not the same). this is making me nuts
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itunes rips CDs using v2.2 tags. I immediately change it to None, and then go back in and change them to v2.3
right-click > Convert ID3 tags
itunes displays the highest-level tag on the Summary tab.
Other programs, such as mp3tag, show ALL the tags.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
edit - another thought, make sure WMP is set to not get info from the internet. That has changed many a person's music tags without them wanting it, even if they never use WMP.
On the general tab, library tab, and privacy tab in WMP.
Message was edited by: Katrina S.

ITunes 12 Tagging Issues

Quite a few changes have been made concerning tagging options and accessibility in iTunes 12—for the worse. While all traditionally available fields were still available in iTunes 11—regardless the media kind—, the new iTunes update removes many of them. Most options have been adjusted to better fit the respective media. And even though I'd agree that Episode # doesn't make much sense for a record, I would still use most of the remaining values for most of my media.
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Maybe unlike others, I've always used the Grouping field for Movies (I group film series, e.g. Planet of the Apes). It's not possible anymore. Grouping has become unavailable for Movies in iTunes 12 (apart from editing the field row by row in List View). Yes, there still is List View—the only good news so far. I also set Track # (1 of 1) and Disc # (1 of 1) for Movies. They're gone, too, meaning I would have to open each movie separately in Subler or iDentify and set those values manually—four times each item in this example. Have you ever tried doing that for a couple of hundred movies?
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This list goes on and on . . .
Oddly enough, I haven't even been able to batch tag the fields that iTunes has left us to play around with. When trying to edit the genre for a bunch of movies today, the error message was "Your selection contains more than one kind of media." (see image), which is, of course, also not true.
I wonder how other iTunes power users—and I really don't like that phrase—are dealing with this, and I'm looking forward to reading about your first impressions, experiences so far, as well as sharing reasonable workarounds.
As I said earlier in this thread (Tagging working differently in iTunes 12 ?): It more and more looks like they're trying to get rid of power users in order to make us buy stuff from the iTunes store instead of managing our own media with their software.
PS: Ripping a CD has become painfully slow, taking almost 20 minutes per album. But I'm hoping this is an issue Apple is actually going to fix soon, while I'm not so sure about the others.

I found a way (thanks to turingtest2), The "old style" infobox known before V12, which allows to modify all fields for a multiple selection of records can be accessed while pressing shift and right-click > Get Info (or File > Get Info). (It's alt on a Mac.).
I do hope, that this remains and hope this does the trick for some of you too.
Heinz
NB: pomme4moi: Unfortunately I use Windows. Similar tasks can there be done using MP3tag. A great utility that does everything I can imaging around maintaining tags. However not being integrated into iTunes, it also means additional work to jump back and forth and re-update libraries over and over again...

ITunes 10.5.2.11 MP3 tag import not working correctly

Hi,
I recently had a hard drive crash so I'm starting from a clean install of Windows XP SP3.
Installed iTunes 10.5.2.11.
When importing MP3's into iTunes now sometimes iTunes reads the MP3 tags correctly. Sometimes iTunes ignores the tags and inserts the file name into the artist field as shown in the image below.
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If I have imported an MP3 into iTunes and it has messed up the meta data, I have deleted the MP3s from iTunes, taken that MP3 into Musicbrainz, re-written the tags and then reimported the file. Unless iTunes is restarted it still gives me the corrupted meta data.
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Updated mp3 tags in PC files vs Itunes

Hello. Not sure if this has been asked before but could not find a previous post.
I would like to know if Itunes updates mp3 tag information automatically when I make a change to the file on my PC?
example: Loaded new album artwork to an MP3 file on my hard drive (dell;xp).
What do I have to do to make these changes update in Itunes or vice versa other than choosing "Get Info" and make the changes manually?

rexlibris wrote:
iTunes maintains all of its info in a database. You can embed most of that data, including artwork, in each and every mp3 file by highlighting the song or the whole album or the entire music library. Then you place the cursor inside the highlighted area and right-click to see CONVERT ID3 TAGS. I have the best luck with v2.3
This action should only be necessary if you have removed tags from the files. Generally iTunes creates and updates tags as you edit metadata. I'm also pretty sure the OP's issue is with getting iTunes to recognize changes made outside of iTunes.
tt2

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I tagged a bunch of MP3 downloads in iTunes 11, but the artist/track/album and other information did not show up in Windows 7 file information or in Windows Media Player.
The fix that worked for me was to convert to MP3 tags to ID3 tags to version 1.0.
Steps:
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-Find the songs you want to convert in the Songs view
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Thanks turingtest2.
I tried your None>2.3 path and it appears to be a superior method to my original suggestion.
I hadn't noticed, but the track #s did not come through to Windows using my original method. They come through when converting to None then to 2.3. Your method, as you note, also provides the advantage of longer field lenghts. I am sure there are other advantages to 2.3 over 1, if nothing other than it's closest to the most up to date standard.
I tried converting to 2.4, but none of the data comes through to Windows.
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Last comment: There may be better solutions using other software such as id3tagit, but the solution above works right from iTunes.

ITunes cannot read ID3 tags written by Perl module MP3::Tag?

Greetings,
Just trying to re-arrange ID3 information in a large set of MP3 files. Before I run the following Perl script, iTunes can read the ID3 tagging information. After writing ID3 inform ation to the MP3, iTunes no longer reads any tagging information from the MP3.
Does anyone have any information regarding this? There is some cryptic information in the MP3::Tag POD regarding setting the "id3v23_unsync" option but that doesn't seem to alter the impact on iTunes at all. Windows and other tag readers seem to be able to read the all ID 3v1 and ID3v2 tags just fine (including the altered fields) after running the following script.
Thanks for any suggestions/guidance anyone can provide.
Description: the following program takes an MP3 filename as input.
Action: It appends the value in the Album field to front of the TITLE Field. That's it! Easy!
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use MP3::Tag;
MP3::Tag-> config(id3v23_unsync=>FALSE);
my $filename = $ARGV[0];
$mp3 = MP3::Tag-> new($filename);
@info=$mp3-> autoinfo;
@albnum = split(/_/, $info[3]);
$frame = $mp3-> {ID3v2}->get_frame("TIT2");
print $frame;
$mp3-> {ID3v1}->title("$albnum[0] $info[0]");
$mp3-> {ID3v2}->change_frame("TIT2","$albnum[0] $info[0]");
$mp3-> {ID3v1}->write_tag();
$mp3-> {ID3v2}->write_tag();
@info=$mp3-> autoinfo;
print $info[0]; //print ID3v1 TITLE field
$frame = $mp3-> {ID3v2}->get_frame("TIT2");
print $frame; //print ID3v2 Title2 field
$mp3-> close();
Thanks!
GL
Windows XP

SOLVED
Changing the config entry (Line 3 in original listing) to:
MP3::Tag->config("id3v23_unsync",0);
fixed the problem with iTunes.
NOTE: This means that iTunes version 7.x still has the synchronization problem alluded to in the documentation (POD) for this Perl module. I just had the syntax wrong to set the workaround parameter.
That aside, iTunes 7.2 works quite nicely with the modified MP3. Artwork (even though this was a modified and obscure (and legal) Bible audio, it found additional information about the MP3 in the online database).
Kind Regards,
GL
Windows XP

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Are you using the latest downloaded version of iTunes from Apple.com, instead of a version that came on disc with the iPod? According to this article, Windows Vista 64-bit required iTunes 7.6 or later
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1426
Also, make sure you got the version of iTunes 8 for Windows Vista 64-bit
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It seems that sometimes when i play a group of songs it will go through and add information to them on its own without prompting me that i do not want there. I have a very clean list of songs as to reduce the number of duplicate artists/albums in my list.
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I have created MP3 versions of my band's artwork for inclusion in an online radio. I am running into some issues with ID3 tags.    The MP3s show the artwork and everything just fine on my Mac. However the artwork doesn't show up in the radio software (Centova) when the files are uploaded. Because of this, I've got a crash course in ID3 tags--at least the album artwork tags.
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NOW THE QUESTION: Does iTunes have any sort of method to select which "type" of cover atwork tag you want to apply to the added artwork? Or am I at the mercy of iTunes' default designation and that's that?

Apple have this help, which I guess you will have seen:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
There is a very comprehensive discussion of the issue in this post:
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Here are my biggest gripes with iTunes 7
. i buy alot of iPods. in fact whenever a new one comes out, i pre-order it and pretty much get it the same day it comes out. And so I re-load my music onto the new iPod and everytime, no wait, EVERYTIME, at some point, where i have about 100 files queued to copy as i search the artists that i want to add from my lib, the iPod driver fails or complains about something and says there was an error. Now try and figure out what was not copied and where to start over again? FORGET IT. you are screwed. Worse is that when you do remember and you manage to backtrack and re-add the ones that failed, sure enough at some point at the gym or on my way somewhere some song fails to play or gets skipped because it is corrupted. then i have to remember to delete it and re-ad it the next time i connect to this wonderful program. iTunes should remember what was queued, where things failed, delete the last failed song and ask the user if he or she wishes to resume this SIMPLE task.
. don't even think of plugging your iPod on the same USB hub as your external USB drive where your lib exists. if you have enough songs and you do enough copying in one session, something very bad will eventually happen. you must plug the iPod on a different hub. now this might not be an iTunes problem but a Windows issue. but still. it is annoying.
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. cannot delete songs from the iPod. I want to be able to delete songs from my iPod without plugging it in. i don;t care about the debates or the reasons or the rationale or the logic or whatever. i want to delete songs off of my iPod from my iPod.
. why can we not get a file explorer style of view where i only see artists as folders and then click to see the albums and songs as subfolders and files? oh wait, you can already do that by clicking the little "eye" button at the bottom right next to the eject button. It will show you Genres, Artist and Album. That feature is ill-designed. When I click on an artist, i then see all of the albums that they are on. So far so good. but then when i click on the album, i only see that song! if i want all of the songs from that album, then i have to go back to all artists at the top and then go to album and then search for that album again and then add it and then go back to artist and then research back to where i was and proceed again. THIS IS FRUSTRATING. Change the behavior of this. When I find a song on a particular album, make it easy for me to add that entire album without doing any funny girations.
. on the same theme as the point above, why not give me a 3 pain view where i have artist (only listed once), then album and then song. give me the ability to turn off the sub views or put them in a separate window so when i browse an artist, i can see the albums and then the songs. or i can simply only see 3,4 or 5 columns or artists and then let me double click to see the albums. and please remember when i come back up one level to return me to the position where i was.
. i cannot for the life of me find an easy way to list my compilations from within iTunes. i always go to the compilations folder in my lib to see what i have got. i would love to have a compilation view
. bug: sometimes you cannot disconnect your iPod because it says it's in use. I then have to go into "Unlocker Assistant" and tell Crypserv.exe to let go of my iPod. Then it ejects without objection. I am sure someone knows why this happens. I would rather this just stop or someone within the iTunes dev team needs to take note of this and force Crypserv.exe to let go if it has taken hold. If it's another app, then it should prompt the user and say "Hey this guy won't let go, want me to make him at your own risk?"
. bug fixed: being able to add songs directly from Windows explorer instead of the lib. thank you thank you thank you. this was broken in 7.0.1.8 or whatever that version is.
. why on Earth would anyone create an iTunes Music library folder using XML? Make an option for people who want to muck around with the data or write 3rd party apps and then make an option for those of us who would rather our CPUs not process megabytes upon megabytes of silly lenghty verbose strings. the other thing i noticed is that when u re-create the library, it takes forever because XML is not really a fast database and whoever wrote that code seems to do alot of writes ever few records. give us the choice to choose either a fast store or an open one (I am presuming some people want to look in there or write add ons or do whatever. I DON'T. I want to plug in my iPod, add/delete stuff and walk away)
. cannot change the location of the iTune music folder (not the library). It insists on going into the My Music folder. I want to put it somewhere else. No can do.
. Bug: if the "My Documents/My Music" folder is not available (as is the case sometimes when i forget to turn on my external e-sata data RAID array or do not require it), iTunes cannot start no matter what.
. Every time iTunes installs, it insists on putting the Quicktime icon on the system tray without asking or remembering that I NEVER WANT IT THERE EVER. I always have to manually go and disable it.
. I NEVER WANT QTASK to automatically start with Windows. NEVER. I always have to into Windows Defender and remove it. I don't want another pretty icon down there.
. You cannot turn off the "Turn on MiniStore" request at the bottom of library screen!!!!! Give me an option to remove that banner so that i can get more real estate to see my library
. it would be nice to have a feature to mark a song as "virtual" or "linked". that is if I have a compilation with a particular song and it is repeated on another album by that artist, give me the ability to determine if i want to keep both or have one link to the other so that when i open up the album the song is there but it acutally points to another album. give me a feature that intelligently reconciles this because sometimes some compilations include different versions or variations. so why not say give me a list of all matching songs where the length is only off by 3 seconds. I want this especially for compilations. LIst them all and then find all songs that appear to be repeats and then let me determine which ones to keep and which ones to delete.
. there should be a way to create simple virtual playlists. I move my collection, i change directories or whatever, why not just intelligently remember that AC/DC "Back in Black" that was on U: drive that is 4.03mb long with the exact same MP3 tag info as this "new" song in the same album directory but on N: drive is probably the same one and I probably want to keep it or re-ad it intelligently.
. your player takes forever to start and stop. and sure enough after sampling enough songs in my library to create a playlist for a party, at some point iTunes dies. I don;t know what it is about your player but it is SLOW and does something really funky with my systems. It's almost like someone wrote a really fancy UBER COM library that tries to do too much and it just konks out after a while. Now, i have to admit that in version 7.02 it is not as bad as before. but if you are copying songs to the iPod watchout. the erractic behavior begins. I have a Core2 Duo running at 3Ghz with 2.5Gb of ram available. it;s not a CPU issue. again, I know it's probably a USB thing but still, try to figure out a way to solve this because when I use Windows Media player while the exact same thing is happening, I do not have this problem. btw, my collection is no longer on a USB drive. only the iPod is. my collection is now on a SATA drive. so the USB bus is not being filled with tons of read write requests from multiple devices. again WMP does not have an issue playing a file while updating alot of files on the iPod. iTunes does. and it becomes jerky. something needs to be revisited.
. if i choose to delete all of the songs in my library, why do you process each song one by one. Just turf the XML file, create a new one and say "Done" within 1 second. try it, add 10,000 songs, select them all and hit delete. what are you processing? just turf the collection. and yes I own lots and lots of CDs.
. when I hit the eject button, it is not clear that the iPod is ejecting. sometimes you need to click it twice and wait until iTunes no longer responds. Why not put a better visual clue that you have indeed made a request to eject it and that it is being processed?

You should send this to Apple.

Resolution to iTunes Burn ID3 issue

Here is one resolution to not getting the ID3 tags when burning in iTunes
Go to edit>preferences>advanced>burning> if the audio CD is checked then your CD will not have the ID3 tags. But it will play in all or most CD players.
To get the ID3 tages you must have Data CD/DVD checked. If the music is bought @ iTunes music store and you give this disk to someone else or put it on one of your other computers you can transfer the music to your iTunes and it will have all the ID3 tags but you will have to autorize that computer to be able to play that music. You can have 3 or 5 computers authorized under your name. This is one of the ways to do it if you are backing up your iTunes.
If you have MP3 checked you will also have the ID3 tags and I am assuming this will take care of the problems people are having using iTunes burned CD in their CD Players that display ID3 Tag info
Hopefully this helps with some of the ID3 tag issues while burning in iTunes.
Jack

It overwrites the Artist too, it seems.
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