My song names are individually named as album titles and my album titles are absent

I am running Itunes in XP. My album list has somehow become corrupted such that I no longer have a list of album names and, instead, have a list of song names in the album column. How can I restore my album list?

Fletch,
Since you are only seeing TrackNum - Title apparently you are only looking at the filenames.
The Artist information is in the tags of the file, but (in your case) is not in the filename.
When you get to the station, open the files in iTunes or whatever player you use there, and you will see Artist and other information in the window of the player.

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Hi, I am thinking someone must have a good idea as to why in iTunes my song names are not matching up with the song being heard(played). It is as though something has scrambled the songs and the written information. Some songs simply do not play at all, even when I go into the Library and manually double click on the individual song file there is no reaction or sound.
I have my iTunes Library on an external hard drive, iTunes 6.0(17) installed and 16,041 songs all scrambled like an omelette.
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Cheers, D.

Hi,
An update is in order;
2.3 is a version of ID 3 tag that works well with iTunes... the option to choose a version is given to you when you make a change.
I tried to convert using 2.3 for the I.D. Tags, the only tags which would allow
this were the MP3 tags, the AAC tags this option was greyed out. I tried this
process to 2.3 but it changed nothing in synching the song name with the
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unchecked. Tried a dozen different songs and all would not take the I.D. tag
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Do this and we will sort it out for you... make a duplicate copy of the iTunes Library file... select the file and type command - D ... leave the copy where it is.
Start iTunes and set the preferences > advanced > general tab NOT to copy files when adding to library and DO keep iTunes Music folder organized ... set the Location for new music by clicking the change button and choose the folder with the music files inside on the Ext HD... OK the changes.
From the file menu select 'add to library' and choose the folder with the music files inside on the Ext HD.... after iTunes has checked it all and redone the links see if all is OK.... come and tell me what happened.
I did as instructed, four times as a matter of fact. Still no change in the
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I have posted this Scrambled iTunes problem on a few internet boards and thus far it has stumped those in the know. At least I know what has not worked, better than before really. Simply a matter of trying all the suggestions until one works. I always believe there is a way, just a matter of time. Along the way I am certainly learning a few things, a good point.
Any ideas? If you think it is time to close the lid on this case I understand, sometimes moving on is an idea after all has been tried. I do appreciate your time and effort in sorting out this mess.
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Itunes cut off ends of songs names

My songs names are cutted by itunes, a tried to convert with the ID3 converter but nothing has changed...
Thank you for your help and sorry for my poor english.

Dude, I first noticed the problem on iTunes a while back. I've been growing my mp3 collection since 1999 and its about 80gigs now so you can imagine how ****** off I was when iTunes cut all the song titles that were long. I have songs that are now named like this: Michael Jackson & The Jackson Five -
Chris CA you are totally missing the point here. iTunes didn't warn Neesh and I that it was going to completely f*%k our song names up. The first time I installed and ran iTunes it also took my 60 gigs of music and sorted it into folders, most of which were named "Unknown Album". It also copied the music into the iTunes Music folder so that there it took up twice as much hard drive space.
Anyway Neesh, I tried Media Monkey but that was worse. Now I have a bunch of files that are .mediamonkey files. What the **** is that?
So far, the best mp3 player was the original WinAmp. Its since been messed up so we're all stuck with iTunes. I wouldn't be surprised if one day it deletes all my mp3's that weren't purchased from the itunes store. So now I am backing up all my music.

Can anyone explain me why iTunes is just changing song names an messing up the order?

I have different songs that I would like to upload onto the phone iOS 6.1.3
So I copy the songe into a playlist in iTunes.
Song names are
whatever_xx-001
whatever_xx-002
whatever_xx-020
what does iTunes? It just changes the song names and make a complete mess with the order of the songs:
whatever xx 1
whatever xx 20
whatever xx 2
My question is, if iTunes is not usable for copying numbered songs? I cannot imagine that this tool is so stupid? Or am I doing something wrong?
Thank you for a hint.

Now I look more carefully at your list, I see what you mean.
iTunes does have a method for Artist sorting if the Sort fields are empty (as most of mine are), but offhand, I don't know much about it to be honest. The glaring issue in the your screenshot is Ministry Of Sound.
If any of the other experienced contributors add to this thread (note the number of points they have) with better advice than I can offer, take it.
In the meantime, start with the Ministry Of Sound and check the Sort Artist field. If you highlight everything by an artist, or a complete album, and select Get Info/Sorting, you see this view:
and if you select just a single song, it's this view:
I assume, unless you tell me otherwise, that the Ministry Of Sound entries will show something in there which is causing iTunes to put them in with the entries for A. Replace it with Ministry Of Sound. If the field is blank (which it will be if there are two different entries in your selection) simply type in Ministry Of Sound. Does that make any difference?
If it does, then check your other entries to see what is causing the issue with them.
You may find the the artist "Joey Bada$$" has been set to sort by Bada$$, Joey.
This screenshot of my Artists column may explain why B.o.B is before Baauer:
If you don't like it that way, change the entry in the Sort Artist field to suit you.

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Anyone familiar with how CD audio file text works after burning a disc in itunes? My mastering engineer gave me master disks to send for duplication but the files are labelled "Track 1-12". Is there a way to do this so the song names are displayed on any computer pre-Gracenote tracking? We tried it again and he used "appy CD text" before the burn but when I put it into my Mac I get the same "Track 1" etc.

Gothboy wrote:
Anyone familiar with how CD audio file text works after burning a disc in itunes? My mastering engineer gave me master disks to send for duplication but the files are labelled "Track 1-12". Is there a way to do this so the song names are displayed on any computer pre-Gracenote tracking? We tried it again and he used "appy CD text" before the burn but when I put it into my Mac I get the same "Track 1" etc.
CD-TEXT is read by the audio CD application, not the file system on the computer (Mac Finder or Windows Explorer).
iTunes does not read CD-TEXT.

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Itunes cut off song names

My songs names are cutted by itunes, a tried to convert with the ID3 converter but nothing has changed...
Thank you for your help and sorry for my poor english.

If you mean that the file and folder names are cut off at 40 characters long, then that is a "feature" of iTunes for Windows.
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I am having a strange and unusal problem with itunes.
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When I export a playlist and then open in excel, do whatever sorting I want, I then save the file and reimport into itunes but not all the songs are there. It appears to be from "comma's" in the song name. Any solutions?

I see songs such as "Monday, Monday" or "Paint It, Black" or even the artist name such as "Fireballs, with Jimmy Gilmer" which have comma's in them, being a problem when I try to do the following:
1. Export a playlist which contains songs which are all there and play fine, but some have comma's in the title such as listed above.
2. I then open that file in Excel and bring it in as a Tab-delimited file. Everything lays out fine, and all the songs are thing (including those with comma's).
3. I then sort the varoius fields I want (which I can't do in i-tunes because i-tunes won't sort it properly), and resave the file as a newly named file, which is also a .txt file.
4. I then import that playlist into my itunes. It is exactly the same songs that I just had exported but i-tunes says some of the songs can't be found.
I have traced this problem to comma's in the file name of the song such as listed above. There must be a solution to this either as the file is opened in excel or in how it's saved or some other solution short of having to rename song/artists without using comma's.
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The additional problem is the file name of the song itself. Even if I were able to delete the commas or replace with a space for example, changing the file name would result in itunes not being able to find the file. I would have to go through each file (out of about 15,000+ songs) to find any that have titles such as described in this thread and change not only the song and artist in the fields, but changing the mp3 file itself.
I fear that I am really pretty much going to have to start with a list of songs that have no comma and then do a file compare to find those songs with commas and then just physically moving them into a new playlist I'm trying to create, but this is a royal pain as I want to be able to create a variety of playlists based on these chart dates/peak positions.
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So I end up with something like "10/14/1980" in the comment box as the peak position for a song which is in the grouping field, and so forth. If I try to sort the comments column in itunes for example, it won't sort properly. If I sort the Grouping field, it will bring up all the "1's", but that's followed by "10", 11, ...19, then "2", etc. This is why I want to export the playlist and sort it as I want, and then reimport the playlist into itunes.
What I'm ultimately trying to achieve is a year-by-year peak position playlist so that I end up with every #1 song (in this case) from, say, January 1st 1980 and then every #1 song in sequential order for the rest of the year falls in line. I have chart position dates from 1955 through 1999. I have entered in all the data from Billboard books I own so I can really create some amazing playlists, but these commas are problematic. Had I known this ahead of time I would have made "Monday, Monday" as "Monday Monday" and not included commas, but it's too late for that.
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I can no longer change my song names like i used to. i use to be able to right click and go to "get info" and then change the song name, artist and album, now i can't is there any other way to change the songs name and info

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You are describing an iTunes problem, not an iPod touch problem. Try posing in the iTunes forum.

ITunes mixing up song names and the album artworks.

This is hard to explain but I'll do my best. For the record, I have 2 iPods that sync with the same playlist (iPod Touch 2nd Gen 4.2.1 for main music and iPod Nano 5th Gen for excercise). I decided to rip a recently purchased CD today and sync it to my iPod. I opened iTunes like normal and I noticed a bunch of unwanted songs in my playlist I use for my iPods. Upon investigation, I noticed the songs are my normal songs, but iTunes has given them the title and album art of a different song in my library. When I click Get Info the correct song name appears in the title box. When I click ok to get out of that menu, the song returns back to the normal title, artist, and artwork. (An example, a song titled Amarillo Sky by Jason Aldean was really Do I by Luke Bryan. When I left Get Info, the song corrected its info back to Do I) After rebuilding my entire playlist and having to re-locate several songs that were now listed under incorrect titles and artists, I syned my iPod nano and realized that some of the songs under the "Songs" category aren't in alphebetical order like they should be. This really bugs me as I like my songs to be in order. To make matters worse, iTunes insists on changing some of the songs back to the incorrect title after I fixed them (Love in an Elevator by Aerosmith keeps getting turned into Eat the Rich by Aerosmith). Any suggestions to fix this ordeal?

Try signing out of the iTunes store. If that doesn't work try rolling back to an older version of your iTunes database as described in Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash.
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How do I give individual tracks a song name/artist name on a compilation CD?

I have been uploading compilation CDs to my iTunes library onto my MacBook Pro and while I can give the CD an album name, genre, etc., through 'CD Info' while the CD is uploading, I am unable to give each track a song name and artist. When I tried doing this via 'CD info' every track was given the same song name and artist! It is a CD of various artists/tracks. Any advice welcome.

Hello TooSweet1,
It sounds like you have imported an audio disk to your iTunes library that is a compilation of various artists but the artist and other info are the same for all tracks and you would like to customize the information on a track by track basis. You can do this with the info window.
Information about each item in your library is stored in the item’s Info window. To open the Info window, select the item and then choose File > Get Info.
From: iTunes 11 for Windows: Edit song and CD information
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12360
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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My song names are individually named as album titles and my album titles are absent

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