Re-import CD's into iTunes & not loose the info...

it's official : i'm definitely an idiot !!
my problem is that i've imported circa 750 CD's into iTunes, some of which iTunes got hold of artist's names & album/song titles - but many it didn't & i had to type these...big effort since i'm awful at it !
started listening to music & not wanting to sound like a pretentious, hair splitting ''audiophile maniac'' type, fact is it's coming out at a lesser quality than my stereo has gotten me used to.
tried playing songs simultaneously in iTunes & my CD player - changing between both at the amp's line in selector.. - & it does sounds pretty bad....
searched forums for answers & .... ended up stumbling on this iTunes >preferences>import settings where iTunes allows the obvious !...
great , this means i can get it to full audio quality - space isn't really an issue since i bought a 1TB W.D My Book for my music & will buy more if necessary...but my trouble is this : how can i re-import ALL of my CD's without loosing the info i got/typed, artwork etc...?? what audio format/settings will be the very best possible ? aiff, wav ? any help will be greatly appreciated
forgive me the length of this msg but....i thank you all
Nuno

Hi C !
& thanks 4 pointing me in the right direction. checking the iTunes forum thoroughly will be my homework for today - i might even learn something !!...LOL...
i'm 49 years ''young'', this is my 1st computer & it's an exciting, thrilling even if sometimes frustrating experience learning all this new stuff. everyday i try to understand/assimilate something new, that keeps me going.
overall it's very exhilarating & reading this forum is great help
best wishes from the south of Portugal
N

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Re-import CD's into iTunes not loosing info...

i posted this msg elsewhere & was advised - rightfully so.. - to come post it here. sorry i got lazy & did a bit of ''copy&pasting'' to get it here...
- my problem is that i've imported circa 750 CD's into iTunes, some of which iTunes got hold of artist's names & album/song titles - but many it didn't & i had to type these...big effort since i'm awful at it !
started listening to music & not wanting to sound like a pretentious, hair splitting ''audiophile maniac'' type, fact is it's coming out at a lesser quality than my stereo has gotten me used to.
tried playing songs simultaneously in iTunes & my CD player - changing between both at the amp's line in selector.. - & it does sounds pretty bad....
searched forums for answers & .... ended up stumbling on this iTunes >preferences>import settings where iTunes allows the obvious !...
great , this means i can get it to full audio quality ( AIFF, WAV ? what settings ? ) - space isn't really an issue since i bought a 1TB W.D My Book for my music & will buy more if necessary...but my trouble is this : how can i re-import ALL of my CD's without loosing the info i got/typed, artwork etc...?? obviously i'm more than ready to re-do it all if ABSOLUTELY necessary but......you know what i mean ? any help will be greatly appreciated
forgive me the length of this msg but....
thank you all
Nuno
P.S. : i'm new to computing so i'm afraid that for a while i'll be just a ''taker'' here , however if anybody needs help with motorcycle maintenance, DIY or silversmithing, shoot away - i'll be happy if i can help

I have noticed that once I incert a cd for which Itunes doesn't have the info or art and i write the info manually and at a later time i insert that cd Itunes recognizes the cd and applies the info I suplied, so in that case try dowloading the cds and change to the format of your choice and most likely you'll notice that Itunes recognizes your cds. good luck

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Without much to go on I think your drive is having problems. It may be something minor such as dust which could possibly be removed using a drive cleaning disc (computer supply store or CD store), or it could be an irregular error in a laser, or tracking, or loose cable, or...
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Well, the format I upload from the camera is "video clip" or "video for Windows"...sometimes I've converted them to avi format, too. But as I said, it never even lets me get that far...I never get to even select a clip. As soon as I tell the program to "import/clip" it freezes up before I can even go to the folder that the clips are in. It has only begun to do this recently, and I'd never had any problems like this before. Last night I tried it again, and I clicked "open composition", and it froze when I did that too.
I'm not sure how much more specific I can be about the details of the clips, since I'm positive it has nothing to do with the clips themselves...I'm running Windows XP, though...Home Edition Service Pack 2, Pentium 4 CPU 2.80GHz, with 504 MB of RAM. I have had the automatic updates turned on since I did my last reformat a couple of weeks ago. Could it have something to do with some kind of an update it may have done?

TS1387 I am importing CD's into iTunes. There were 3 different selection for the CD I put in and I accidently selected the wrong one, Now how do I change it? It seems to only recognize it as the wrong CD now.

I am importing CD's into iTunes. The CD that I put in had the option of 3 different CD's and I accidentally chose the wrong CD name. Is there a way to change it? It now seems to only recognize that CD as the wrong one.

Trevor,
When you say your superdrive rips, the import speeds are typically around 20x, what encoding method and bit rate are you using ?
I imported another CD and watched for what import speed numbers were displayed. Routinely, they hovered around 8x and sometimes up to 12 or 13x, but never higher. I was told by someone at our local user's group meeting that ripping at AAC 192kbps was a double-pass, I think that was the words they used, and therefore slower. ( Many members thought 7 minutes to rip was typical ) I'm not so sure if that means the drive will only spin at half it's rated max speed ? Anyway, I walked over to my son's PC with the CD and ripped it at AAC 192kbps to his iTunes library. The numbers I saw were from 18x to frequently 23, 24 and sometimes briefly to about 26x. His drive has a max of 40x. By my reasoning, anything that would cause iTunes to rip this CD at a slower speed, whether due to the encoding rate or the CD's surface condition, should affect both computers equally, yes ? Yet the drive on the PC performed on average at twice the rate of the iMac. I think it's safe to say the rip speed is comfortably within the operating margins of both drives.
I'm not yet fully convinced this is normal for an iMac. My CD are in excellent shape. I'm the only one who uses them and I handle them with about as much care as the old audiofiles used to when they handled their vinyl LPs ( well, at least not as far as wearing cotton gloves and sweeping the dust off ). Most of them have absolutely no visible scratches or oily finger prints on their surfaces. I might experiment and see what rates I get if I use MP3 or a lower bit rate for AAC.
Bill

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1497
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B-rock

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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition (Build 6000)
Dell Inc. Inspiron 531
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Video Display Information:
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CD-ROM Drive, HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-H31N SCSI CdRom Device, Bus Number 1, Target Id 1, LUN 0
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Track 2, start time 05:00:02
Track 3, start time 08:39:55
Track 4, start time 14:39:25
Track 5, start time 18:34:10
Track 6, start time 21:43:22
Track 7, start time 24:56:42
Track 8, start time 27:54:72
Track 9, start time 33:03:52
Track 10, start time 37:55:00
Track 11, start time 43:59:72
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Get drive speed succeeded.
The drive CDR speeds are: 8 10 16 40 48.
The drive CDRW speeds are: 8.
The drive DVDR speeds are: 8.
The drive DVDRW speeds are: 8.

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Compaq-Presario KT526AA-ABA SR5505F
iTunes 10.6.3.25
QuickTime not available
FairPlay 1.14.43
Apple Application Support 2.1.9
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 5.2.0.6
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Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.6.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
iTunes Serial Number 0031AB8403F12DA8
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The current local date and time is 2012-07-09 09:21:15.
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WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
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iTunesHelper 10.6.3.25 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
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No drivers in LowerFilters.
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.2.0.1),
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I am having problems importing some CDs into iTunes on a laptop with Windows 8. Most CDs import without problem. The ones I can't import can be imported into iTunes with Windows 7. Does anybody know why this problem is occurring?

First-off, this seems to be a general problem with 10.4 (across all the operating systems of which I am aware). Unfortunately, I cannot provide a permanent solution but, if you need a quick fix, this will (hopefully) work for you.
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Y:\Music\Buddy Holly\Buddy Holly - Rave On.mp3
The end result is that it will import a playlist with no content.
It will, however, recognise the equivalent Apple paths which look like this:
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I am sorry that this is not a "clean" solution but it will work if you are in a bind. The only alternative of which I am aware is to wait for Apple to fix the problem.

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