ITunes wont change my song titles or artists, via get info or clicking

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

Sounds like the songs are Read Only or you do not have Write permsisions to the songs or the folder they are in.

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ITunes is changing song titles and artists

iTunes appears to be infrequently and randomly changing the artist and song title tags of music in my library. I usually just put my music on random shuffle, so it can take me a long time to actually identify errors -- like when I listen to music from a particular artist, or when I happen to glance at iTunes when a song iTunes has mis-re-named is playing. So far, the errors seem to confined within single albums at a time, but that might just be because of the circumstances of me identifying the errors.
In the first case I noticed a while back, an album with six songs had their titles all jumbled up. Each song was titled with an incorrect song title from the same album. The artist, album, and genre tags all remained correct. In the most recent case, two songs from a compilation album had their artist and song title tags overwritten with the info from a third track on the same album (so I ended up with three songs with the same title and artist).
Any idea what might be causing this apart from a crappy coding?

ed2345 wrote:
If iTunes and WMP are referencing the same copy of the MP3, then a tag change in one will be reflected in the other. If that is not what you want, you will need separate copies of the song.
Being picky, iTunes will write it's changes to the tag immediately (unless the file is locked as read-only) whereas WMP may choose to do it at some later point in time unless you use an option to "Apply media information changes". WMP will generally notice automatically that another appliation has modified the tag and updates it's library accordingly whereas iTunes only spots the change if it accesses the tag for some reason.
If you want WMP & iTunes to play nicely together you are best off disabling the WMP options for "Rearrange music in the rip folder..." and "Automatic media information update..." (you can still do so manually). I also find it best to change the WMP rip folder to the same as the iTunes Music folder. Letting iTunes "Keep the music folder organised" is a matter of choice (I choose not) but at least WMP can cope if your files get shuffled around by iTunes whereas the reverse is not the case.
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For some reason all of my Japanese songs titles and artists are in this random jumbled text, and I was wondering if anyone can help me fix it.

Sorry. I think you misread me. I know you said the software upgrade messed me up and I agree. It was Kobo Support who said the ebook/library book that caused the problem. When I called Kobo Support to see if they had a fix they told me it was my library's problem. I kept going back to the software upgrade and all the trouble shooting I had done - including the paperclip in the back - but the tech just kept getting me to do the same things over and over. You were spot on that they would try to place the blame on something other than their upgrade but they didn't blame ADE. The tech didn't have any new suggestions . I eventually gave up on her and took the device back to its like new settings, unintalled and reinstalled all the software on both my device and pc. It is working now but unfortunately I lost a couple of books. Thanks for your input.

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,

Sometimes iTunes burns CDs with song title info on them, sometimes not

When I burn a CD in iTunes, sometimes the song titles and other info seems to transfer onto the CD so that when I put it back in the disc drive the titles and artists show up on the iTunes track listing of the CD, other times it seems they don't transfer onto the CD so that when I put it back in the disc drive iTunes first tries to get the track info from theCDDB and then just lists the tracks on the CD as Track 1, Track 2, etc. Is there any way to assure iTunes consistently transfers the song titles & other info onto the CDs it burns, so that when I play those CDs in other machines that can display this info, the info is there for it to read?

iTunes recently added the option of embedding CD Text into audio CDs (although the option is disabled by default). If you’ve enabled this feature, it’s likely that your car’s CD player is reading that. I don’t believe that iTunes is enabled to get track info from CD Text. It's possible to harvest track names from CD Text on a Mac with AppleScript. I’m sure it’s possible on a PC as well, although I’m not sure how.
iTunes remembers audio CDs that you've burned and stores their track lists in your library file, so if you burn a CD, then re-insert it in your computer later, it should remember the track names. If you’ve replaced your library file, or the CD in question was burned on a different computer, then iTunes will have no record of having burned the disc, hence no track names.
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Hebrew Song titles and Artists appear as blank

I want my iPod to show my Hebrew song titles and artists, as opposed to the blank (which makes it very hard to pick songs, as you might imagine).
I understand that it comes out of the box without the capability to do so, but there was a fix for the old ipods on idigital.co.il. This fix however, does not work with 5th generation (I tried and the website says it doesn't). Why doesn't Apple just come out with an official fix? I figure it's something relatively easy to put out, no?
(have latest itunes and ipod updates)

sorry to say, but there isn't any third-party app that can fix that. you'll have to rename songs or live with it. you can send a request to apple to fix this in future software updates. here's the link:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodnano.html
the iPod software list doesn't include the 4th Gen. but just click the most recent iPod 3rd Gen. software.
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My itunes wont open the song when i download them

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when i download song than my itunes wont open the song but its stright gose to my windows 8 x box music player music libary . I dont want them to go there and how can i stop windos 8 x box music player open my download song . please help and thanks for reading.

Repair permissions on your HD using Disk Utility. iTunes will open again.

ITunes could not copy [song title] because an unknown error occurred (-54)

For the past month or so I've been unable to sync it with iTunes. When I do, it starts but after a few hundred songs, I get the error that "itunes could not copy [song title] because an unknown error occurred (-54). When I click OK, it then says "synching" but nothing is actually happening, and the only way to even get my browser working again is to restart my pc. I have deleted the song in question, but it will just do it again with a different song. I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes to the most recent version, reset the iPod Touch numerous times, As well as deleting the iTunes files off of my computer and reloading all the muisc to it. To make things more interesting, it does all of this on my laptop pc as well as my desktop. Now. all of this may have started before upgrading the software, but that was the last time in months that I tried to sync it, so there may or not be a correlatoin there.
Any help is greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.

Try:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18687758#18687758
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19573110#19573110
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20050391#20050391

Why can I not edit song titles and artists as I could in the past?

Why can I not edit song titles and artists as I have in the past?

Do you mean by using the 'get info' function and editing the data there? What is happening instead of what used to happen?

How do I copy playlist song titles and artists names to place in an e-mail

There is an "export song list" option under "file" that I tried to use. It gives you an option of saving the text in "plain text," "unicode," or "XML" formats. I've tried all 3 and when I bring up the text in Word, its not organized in columns, its just one word after the next, with information I don't need like track numbers, date modified, etc. I don't want to have to go in and manually delete all the extraneous information. Is there a way to format the list in columns so that I could delete all but the song title and artist name for a 200 song list?

Never mind, I figured it out. I went to "view options" under "edit." I deselected everything but artist, song, and album. I went to the playlist and opt-Aed the list, copy, and then pasted into the e-mail.

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,

I can't change the name of my song title or artist

I tried both ways that the help topic told me about and neither of them work. I tried getting info from the internet and double clicking on the title to change "track 01" to an actual song title. Neither of these work.
What do I do next?

I'f have this problem. -nod.- It wouldn't let me change genres on a song.
I tried clicking on the song, then clicking on the genre, and that didn't work, so I went into the folder where my itunes music all was, to the file itself.
The way my computer is, right click it once, then go to properties, click the summary tab, then advance, and just click on the blank space, and put in the information. Then when your done hit ok, and apply if you'd like.
Go back to itunes and delete the track you just editted from the library, then go back to the file and play it, and the information will be there.
Hopefully that helped, and if it was too jumbled I can unjumble it.

ITunes radio not displaying song titles, artists, or album artwork.

iTunes radio on my iphone 5 doesn't display the song title, artist name, or any album artwork. It's just blank. Tried signing in and out of iTunes, turning phone on/off to no avail. Any suggestions? Thanks!

I have this same problem. I also don't have any of the price info for the track. This problem is on my iPhone 5s, iPad and iPad mini.
I tested out iTunes Radio on my wife's iPad and it works fine - album art, track names, album info, price and buying info.
The information in the "i" button is also blank on all my devices and not on my wife's iPad.
This is very frustrating because I can never know what the track is that I'm listening to and can't buy it if I like it.

IPod Shuffle Voiceover Doesn't Say Song Title or Artist.

Everytime I am listening to a song and click the voiceover button, the music fades like the voice is about to say something but then the music goes back to it's normal volume instead of saying the Artist and song Title. What do I do to fix this?

VoiceOver read my playlists as 'Playlist 1, 2 etc…', so I fiddled and found the following fix. My instinct tells me the Speech stuff in Prefs and VoiceOver need to be reset to get the iPod to re-read changed or new Playlists.
Quit iTunes and disconnect the iPod.
Connect the ipod and boot iTunes.
Switch off VoiceOver and 'Apply'. Switch on VoiceOver and 'Apply'.
Redeliver Playlists to the iPod.
Select 'Speech' from System Preferences. Toggle to another voice and close.
Deliver a dummy Playlist to the iPod to force a new VoiceOver build.
Hey presto. Worked for me.
Hope it works for you too.

Why is iTunes automatically changing edited song and album information?

Hi guys, I've seen this question asked several times but I haven't seen an answer or advice that specifically relates to the problems I've been having with my iTunes library of late.
I've got a pretty big collection of music on iTunes - almost 1000 albums - and I'm pretty anal about the way it's stored and managed and I regularly change the song and album information to suit my own "house style". All my music was stored on a Dell laptop and was fine - I had no problems with changing and editing the information. I recently bought a MacBook Pro and shifted all the music files from the old machine onto the new one (a lengthy and frustrating process) and since then, I've had a lot of hassle in terms of amending and organising my iTunes collection. A lot of the music I've purchased from the iTunes store has reverted back to its original state, no matter how many times I've changed it.
For example:
Lana Del Rey's Born to Die (Deluxe Version). I've removed the "Deluxe Version" from the title but I quit iTunes or sync it with my iPod, it automatically adds it back. I've changed the information in the song info, I've even changed it in the sort info just to be sure, but it always changes back.
The same with the Anthems Electronic 80s compilation. I want to call it Ministry of Sound: Electronic 80s and remove it from Various Artists (by deleting the album artist from the information). But after iTunes is quit or its been synced, the same thing happens. It appears as two albums on my iPod - a handful of tracks appear under the old title while the bulk of them appear under the new one.
It's happening across loads of albums, all ones I've downloaded (the stuff ripped from CDs seems to be okay). I've done as much as I can in terms of the song info but no matter what I do, it just reverts back when the programme's quit or I sync my iPod. I don't know if it's anything to do with the fact they're in the Cloud or they've been imported from a Dell laptop or there's an underlying problem with iTunes (a couple of posts elsewhere on this forum suggest it might be the case) but it's really frustrating.
I apologise for the length of my post but I wanted to be as thorough as possible to outline the problem. If anyone's in a position to offer me any advice, I'd be hugely grateful!

A handful of others have complained about this recently. Seems to happen to iTunes Store purchases only. Somehow they are connecting back to the Store and refreshing label information. There may be a solution but few seem to try experimenting with settings to see if something stops it.
2014 discussion about edited tags for Store purchases reverting to originals - https://discussions.apple.com/message/26077896 - edited tags are still present in the media file but revert to the originals in the iTunes library file. Workaround is to refresh tags so media file tags are re-read and used in library file.
Until then send feedback to Apple:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

ITunes wont change my song titles or artists, via get info or clicking

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