Rename CD Tracks?

Can I manually rename the tracks of a CD that lists only Track numbers? The CD I am importing to iTunes is converted from home recorded audio cassettes.

Hi appleseeker2,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. You can rename tracks and add other information to songs you've imported into iTunes by following this article:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Edit song and CD information
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12160
Cheers,
- Ari

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I know i know
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poflynn wrote:
But after you name it you can not use any of the pre-set effects in the Track Info Pane or it will re-name it to that effect.
An annoying idiosyncrasy, IMO. If someone goes to the effort to rename a track, GB should have the good manners to leave it alone... at least on real audio tracks where a renamed track is likely to be more meaningful than the name of an effect.
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donaldfromoxford wrote:
How can I rename a track that I've added?
click the name of the track, and don't move the mouse, after about a second the text will become editable

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I wrote an IronPython script to easily rename tracks in iTunes. It works in IronPython with Python 2.7 compatibility. This saves me so much time and RSI-inducing effort that I want to share it here, in case it can help others. For example, I have a lot of classical music where the album is called "Beethoven Piano Sonatas" and each track name starts with something like: "Beethoven: Piano Sonata " and that's all I can see in my iPod display for each song. What I want these tracks to start with is something like "Sonata"
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ipy iRename.py replacesave [bad text] [good text]
Voila! The songs are renamed in iTunes!
The Beethoven example above would be run like:
ipy iRename.py replacesave "Beethoven: Piano Sonata " "Sonata "
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replace - Simulates a rename but does not change anything in iTunes
find - Shows all selected tracks matching the search text
list - Shows all selected tracks
The search ("bad") text is a regular expression, so you can take advantage of this syntax if you are familiar with it. For example, to insert the text "New " (withouth the quotes) at the start of each selected track, you can run:
ipy iRename.py replacesave "^" "New "
Also, to remove the search text, set the second ("good") text argument to "[null]" (without the quotes).
ipy iRename.py replacesave "Beethoven: Piano " "[null]"
This is not a production-level product but just a useful tool. Maybe you can leverage it into something much more polished yourself. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Obvious room for improvement would be to gracefully handle when:
iTunes is not running
no tracks have been selected
user entered invalid arguments
If you have Python with Windows extensions but not IronPython, comment out the blue lines and uncomment the brown lines; this has not been completely tested but is included here for reference, to show both ways of getting an iTunes application object.
import sys
from re import search, sub
# Use this if you have IronPython
from System import Activator, Type
itunes = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID('iTunes.Application'))
# Use this to run in normal Python instead of IronPython
#itunes = win32com.client.Dispatch("iTunes.Application")
#itunes = win32com.client.Dispatch("iTunes.Application")
command = sys.argv[1]
if command == "replace" or command == "replacesave":
   orig = sys.argv[2]
   repl = sys.argv[3]
   print "Replacing \"{0}\" with \"{1}\"".format(orig, repl)
   if repl == "[null]":
       repl = ""
elif command == "find":
   orig = sys.argv[2]
   print "Finding \"{0}\"".format(orig)
elif command == "list":
   print "List:"
else:
   print "Invalid command: \"{0}\"".format(command)
   sys.exit(1)
for track in itunes.SelectedTracks:
    if command == "list":
        print track.TrackNumber, track.Name
    elif command == "find" or command == "replace" or command == "replacesave":
        if search(orig, track.Name):
            if command == "replace" or command == "replacesave":
                new_name = sub(orig, repl, track.Name)
                print "\"{0}\"".format(new_name)
            if command == "replacesave":
                track.Name = new_name

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import sys
command = sys.argv[1]
from re import search, sub
from System import Activator, Type
itunes = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID('iTunes.Application'))
#import win32com.client
#itunes = win32com.client.Dispatch("iTunes.Application")
if command == "replace" or command == "replacesave":
    orig = sys.argv[2]
    repl = sys.argv[3]
    print "Replacing \"{0}\" with \"{1}\"".format(orig, repl)
    if repl == "[null]":
         repl = ""
elif command == "find":
    orig = sys.argv[2]
    print "Finding \"{0}\"".format(orig)
elif command == "list":
    print "List:"
elif command == "renumber" or command == "renumbersave":
    track_nr = int(sys.argv[2])
    print "Renumbering:"
else:
    print "Invalid command: \"{0}\"".format(command)
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for track in itunes.SelectedTracks:
    if command == "list":
        print track.TrackNumber, track.Name
    elif command == "renumber" or command == "renumbersave":
        print "{0:03d} ==> {1:03d} {2}".format(track.TrackNumber, track_nr, track.Name)
        if command == "renumbersave":
            track.TrackNumber = track_nr
        track_nr += 1
    elif command == "find" or command == "replace" or command == "replacesave":
        if search(orig, track.Name):
            if command == "find":
                print track.Name
            if command == "replace" or command == "replacesave":
                new_name = sub(orig, repl, track.Name)
                print "\"{0}\"".format(new_name)
            if command == "replacesave":
                track.Name = new_name

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