Itunes renaming songs

Hello, I converted to apple products a few years ago (sorry if this has been asked). I tried searching for the answer and I have applied every fix I thought was available. I have about 11000 songs in iTunes. When I buy a song from iTunes and it is named something like ALBUM NAME (ITUNES DELUXE VERSION), I rename it to just ALBUM NAME as I'm very crazy about the way my music is organized. After a few days, I see the name reverts to what iTunes named it. I am on a PC, removed music from the iTunes folder and placed it in a folder for the artist/band by itself, unchecked any "updates" from Windows Media player and from iTunes, etc. No matter what I try, it reverts to the iTunes name. If I click on a song, it reverts to my rename and splits up the album. I have to click on every song so it regroups it back to what I named it. I've been purchasing a lot of music via iTunes, so it is getting annoying. Anything purchased from Amazon gives me no trouble. I imagine it has something to do with the iCloud or some tag.
How can I get it to stay renamed? I don't want any other external program to do this for me as I don't want to run the risk of messing up 11000 songs. Thank you for your time, help, and suggestions.

I did have that ticked 'turned on' when it renamed my songs. Is there some way to use Itunes to name the songs back to the way they were?

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ITunes Renames Songs

iTunes keeps renaming songs when I play them. Unfortunately, it is not naming them the right title. I have tried renaming the using "get info", but the next time the song plays it gets automatically renamed. Does anyone know how to "lock" the file once I rename it or have iTunes recognize the right song titles?
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I think you may have to actually rename the song file. There may be an easier way to do this, but here's how I would do it. Go to your library and find one of the incorrectly named songs, right click on this song and choose "Show Song File". When the file opens, find the track you want to rename, hover over it so it's highlighted, then go to the left side of the box and choose rename--a blinking box will form around the song name--if you've got track numbers on the song make sure you keep these when you rename it. Type the new name and hit enter. Close iTunes and reopen it and see if the new name sticks this time.

Itunes renaming songs and tracks to the incorrect ones, e.g. renaming all Various Artists to be Gym Class Heroes when played on my ipod, and incorrectly renaming tracks at random.

Also some songs are imported twice and named different things? I dont know why itunes has done this, and its on purchased products mainly.
I have switched back all the various artists defaults once, and it has just switched it back when synced with my ipod. How can i solve this issue?

There may be some inconsistency in the capitalizations, or some of the tracks may be marked as Disc 1 of 1 while others are Disc <Blank> of <Blank> See Grouping tracks into albums for more details.
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I don't like how Itunes renames my songs

By default Itunes is renaming songs as Song# - Song Title. I personally like to name my song files as "Artist - Album - song# - song title."
Is there anyway to make it so that when music is imported to the iTunes folder and managed by iTunes that it can name the song how I want it to be named rather than by their "Song# - Song Title?"
Any help would be appreciated.

If you import from a CD, by default the heirarchy is Artist folder/Album folder/tracks and the tracks are listed with track # ahead of the track name. There used to be a preference to not add track numbers when importing, but Apple has taken that out of the software. I haven't seen it since version 7.2 that I can recall.
I like to have complete control over my tags too, but when I burn with Roxio, it helps to have the track numbers to preserve the original order of the tracks.
On my Mac I use a batch file renamer to remove the track numbers from the file name, and that's cool, because it doesn't remove the info from the tags and the album order stays the same.

I just transferred music from a desktop to a laptop to put on itunes. After this exhausting process of renaming and renaming unnamed tracks, when I play one on itunes the song title disappears and though the song plays, I have to rewrite name of song.

I just transferred music from a desktop to a laptop to put on itunes. After this exhausting process of renaming and renaming unnamed tracks (b/c itunes made me rename them even after I rewrote the names in the music folder of my computer even though I hadn't put the songs onto itunes beforehand when the tracks were unnamed), when I play one on itunes the song title disappears and though the song plays, I have to AGAIN rewrite the name of the song. Is there an actually answer out there???!

Welcome to the Apple Community.
i guess you are referring to iTunes Match. It sounds as though you haven't downloaded all the content and are trying to play your music over a poor connection.

Itunes naming songs not syncing correctly to iPod..

I try to rename songs in itunes like i was able to before so i dont have like 6 lil waynes because of some space error or capitalization etc. Any fix for this yet? Very frustrating ever since updating to iOS 5 and itunes 10.5.. =\

make sure your computer is authorized to play the music.
Click on advanced at the top of itunes and choose authorize computer.
Then sync your ipod again.

Renaming Songs

I've done a search on this topic and read a good deal of the posts about this topic and I haven't found an answer on my own, so I'm hoping someone can help me.
I've downloaded songs, both off the internet and from CD's and the names won't change. For example, I downloaded a song from the internet... When in the iTunes Music FILE FOLDER it will be the name of whatever song, say "Hey Jude" by the Beatles. So I then go to the iTunes program, go to FILE, then "Add file to library", and add that file. After that it will be in my library. I double-click on the song to play and it will play... BUT, the song title changes to "untitled". I stop the song and RIGHT CLICK on the song, then go to "Get Info". The information comes up and I go to the Info tab. In this tab, it shows me the title, artist, album names, etc... But in the title it says "untitled"...SO, I change it back to "Hey Jude" and click "OK". In my Library, the song is back to "Hey Jude" again... BUT, you know what happens when I click on the song to play? It plays, but the song title goes back to "untitled"... What the **** is wrong? It won't stick with the name I give it!
So, does anyone know what I should do?

I've gone through all the files that are being renamed, and all of them have the "read only" box UNchecked.
I did a search for discussions w/ the topic "Renaming Song" and others similar to that... One of the discussions talked about how WMP will "watch" the files being entered in to the library... And that it is WMP that is automatically changed the names back to the original. So, I opened up WMP, when to TOOLS, then OPTIONS, then to the LIBRARY tab. In that tab their is the subject of "Automatic Media Information Updates for Files". In that discussion I read one person said to UNcheck all those boxes to keep WMP from changing all your file names when you try playing them in iTunes. BUT... the thing is, when I went to WMP and went to the Library tab, none of those freakin' boxes were checked!
So, I thought if WMP has something in the program that automatically changes your file info, then maybe QuickTime has something like that too... I couldn't find anything in QuickTime like that, so I'm still lost on why iTunes is changing the names, and still lost on what to do about it.
Any suggestions?

HT2905 Deleting songs, duplicate songs, and renaming songs

On my iTunes I am unable to delete any songs from my iPhone, nor am I able to select the 'Display Duplicates' or Delete them either. I can't even rename a song!
Things I have tried for deleting songs:
Shift+CTRL+Delete
Delete button
Looking under settings on both my iPhone and iTunes for an option to enable the above problems in the opening
I have deleted the songs in both the downloads folder that my songs go to, and from the iTunes music (This deleted the songs from that but not my actual iPhone music).
Right Clicking the song and looking for delete option (no such option exists under the 'Devices' portion of iTunes)
Things I have tried for duplicate songs:
Right clicking the song and looking for delete option (again no such option exists)
Tried clicking the 'Display Duplicate' option but iTunes has it blocked and I am unable to click it (faded grey colour)
Things I have tried for renaming songs:
Right clicking the song>Get Info>Info and I can't click on anything it's all blocked
Double clicking song title still unable to edit the song like I used to be able to do in previous iTunes
Triple clicking song title
Hoping someone can help me with these issues as this is very frustrating,
KelseyP91.

If your iPhone syncs with iTunes you need to tidy up in iTunes, then sync, not try to edit the content of the iPhone manually within iTunes.
I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
If the device has duplicates, but iTunes doesn't, then you can swipe and delete all duplicated items directly on the iPhone, then sync with iTunes to put the songs back onto the device. One of the iTunes build seem to have the potential to leave orphaned tracks on the device which are then not cleared up by further syncing.
See also: Grouping tracks into albums for duplicate cover issues.
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I can't rename songs on my Iphone 4, "get info" seems locked

If any one has any advice on how to rename songs using itunes (or other software).
Songs are from a different computer which I don't have access to any more.
"Get info" seems to be "locked" when renaming on Iphone 4s
any advice or possible solutions welcomed

Download from where?
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No one here can do anything for you. We, your fellow users, can offer assistance if details of the issue are provided.

Renaming songs and artists on 10.5

So my friend burned me a mix cd and I was trying to rename songs and artists because the names and such did not come through when i imported the cd to itunes 10.5. In trying to do so it is no longer apparently as simple as just clicking and waiting for the box to allow me to pop up and change the title/artist. Is anyone else having this issue with 10.5 or have any resolutions to this?? Also I am no longer able to just simply click on the Music category on the left hand side bar nor am i able to click on my playlists..
What the heck iTunes???!!!!

hey there. all you have to do is right click on the song, and then click "get info". when that box pops up, you go up to the tabs and you click "info". by doing so, you can enter all the information you need to, just as you would before.

Automatically Renaming Songs

My iTunes automatically renames songs for me. For example, I just imported a new CD yesterday. I renamed the tracks from Track 01 (etc) to the names listed on the CD case. But when I click on them to play or change more information, the names change back to Track 01, etc. Can anyone help me stop iTunes from doing this?
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hmmm...yeah, that's a problem because I don't know how to strip the tags off of them.
Try this: simply convert one of the songs to mp3, this is just to see if it works. Go to edit > preferences > advanced > importing and set it to mp3. Right-Click on the song and "Convert Selection To MP3". This will create duplicates of those songs (one in AAC and MP3), and see if the MP3s can retain the information.
NOTE: these MP3s have degraded sound quality because you've made a copy of a copy, though some people can't detect the quality loss. Anyway, this is just to see if it works.
If it still doesn't work, then strip them of their ID3 tags as I relayed above. Then try to see if they can retain the info this time.

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HI, sorry about the weird topic title but I'm not sure how else to describe my problem.In iTunes 11.1.3.8 when I want to rename songs or whole albums (doesn't matter whether it's the artist name, track name, album name etc), then if I incorrectly type something or spell something wrong by accident, it saves that and I am unable to delete it and put in the correct spelling.
For example, say if I type in an artist name as BEYonce when I obviously meant to type Beyonce, I am unable to then type it in the correct way, it will always default to the incorrect spelling. As soon as I start typing the first few letters of B, E and Y then it will default to them as capitals like in the incorrect version I showed.
This is really, really annoying as it means you have to be extremely careful what you type and make sure you have the correct spelling EVERY time, otherwise if you make a mistake then you are stuck with this. This is ridiculous, is there a way to fix this?
Thanks for any help.

Type something like _Beyoncé and then remove the leading character when you are done, or copy and paste the correct text from somewhere else.
Fix all the incorrect versions in your library, close, then reopen, and iTunes will start offering the correct version in future.
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When I connect my ipod to computer and open itunes, the songs on my ipod do not show up on the itunes library...it is blank...songs are still on my ipod but don't seem to show up on computer..help??

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