Renaming songs on itunes

I have several cd's that I have imported into itunes,that are copied cd's,and it tells me the names for songs cannot be found online. Now I have track listings for these songs,is there a way I can rename them to their correct name instead of having them as just track 1 track 2 and so on?

Right click on the track you want to rename and choose Get Info then the info tab. Fill in the name and other details in there. At the bottom press Next to move on to the next track you want to name and OK when you are done: Add Song Information, Lyrics, and Artwork to My Tunes
If you want to update multiple items with say the album name or artist name where it's the same for them all. Click on the first track in the list hold down the shift key and click on the last track to highlight the selection. If you want to change track information right click anywhere in the selection and choose Get Info, you'll be asked if you want to update multiple items, say yes. In the box that appears fill in the information you want to add and choose OK.

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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?

ITunes hiccup after renaming song

Is it normal to have iTunes hiccup (spinning beachball) for about 15-20 seconds after renaming a song within iTunes itself? Seems like an unusually long delay to me just for renaming a song, and it interrupts whatever song is playing.
I appreciate any thoughts/advice.
Bryan

It shouldn't be happening that long, but if you rename a song that's playing, it's normal for a blip to occur, but only extremely short.
How much RAM do you have? And processor, etc...?
Also, have you updated iTunes recently to the latest version? If not, you can get it here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ or go to Software Update.
Best of luck,
Adam

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.

How to create custom Ringtones (m4r files) from Songs in iTunes

Jakarta, 14 June 2013
On Mac OS : 10.7.5 (Lion)
On iTunes : 11.0.4
Difficulty : intermediate - hard
Assuming you know basic Ctrl+Click and Option+Drag...
Full correct steps should be like this :
1) Select a favourite song in iTunes program to be made into Ringtone...
2) "Get Info" on that song name and make any 0:30 seconds portion of that song....
(specify "Start" & "Stop" time - under "Options" – to any 30-seconds duration and click OK)
3) Right-click or Ctrl-Click again on same song name and select "Create AAC Version" to create an .m4a file...
(when done iTunes will create a Chime)
4) to locate the created .m4a file easily, Ctrl-Click again on same song name and select "Show in Finder" from the pop-up list...
(iTunes will automatically point the folder location of the original .mp3 & the newly created .m4a files... keep this window open for later...)
5) change the .m4a file to .m4r as suggested...
(rename to whatever you like but you must change the extension to .m4r)
6) At this point, the m4r(original) file isn't a "Ringtone" file yet... which we'll need to change now...)
(check under "Get Info" > "Kind" : it's still "Apple MPEG-4 Audio")
...1st by dragging that newly changed .m4r(ori) file to somewhere out of that same default folder it was created by iTunes...
{ this is where most confusions occur, take note here, it gets rather complicated }
7) Once it's outside of that folder, Double Click the m4r(ori) file and iTunes will play...
(u can stop it immediately...) this is just to let iTunes automatically convert that m4r(ori) file into a new duplicate & places it inside the initial default folder where the original .mp3 file is kept... we kept the window open previously, remember?
8) Locate that duplicate .m4r(new & true) file, in that same .mp3 folder and now DUPLICATE-Drag (press Option while dragging to get the "+" sign) it to the "TONES" folder in your default apple folder structure. (check under "Get Info", this .m4r(new) File's "Kind" should be "Ringtone")
//to get to that "TONES" Folder : First Locate your iTunes default Music Folder in your Mac --> usually it's in your Default "MUSIC" folder --> Navigate to "iTunes Media" --> Navigate to "Tones". !! Keep this window open to make the transfer manually !!
9) Once your duplicate is placed inside the "Tones" folder, double-click on that duplicate .m4r(true) file and let iTunes play, it should automatically place that ringtone file into the "Ringtone" sidebar List in the iTunes program... (check program to see)
Somehow u needed both duplicates : 1 – inside the default initial .mp3 folder & 1 – inside the Tones Folder which we Duplicate+Drag into... and both must be "Ringtone" – Kind... for this to work.
10) There you go. Now you can Sync / Delete / Add the whole Ringtone contents to your iPhone as you wish.
//Don't forget to set SYNC ON under the iphone "Tones" tab in your iTunes - iPhone screen... and click big SYNC button at the bottom of iTunes program & wait for the magic.
( Finally you can check inside your iPhone "Sounds" settings and hopefully if all steps done correctly, the bloodycomplicatedringtone selection will be there. Enjoy!

Hi --
I'm using iTunes 11.0.4 on OSX 10.8.4 and am having a hard time following your instructions to create a ringtone from a snippet of a .mp3 file using iTunes:
1) Select a favourite song in iTunes program to be made into Ringtone... CHECK!
2) "Get Info" on that song name and make any 0:30 seconds portion of that song.... CHECK !
3) Right-click or Ctrl-Click again on same song name and select "Create AAC Version" to create an .m4a file... PROBLEM!
It's when I hit Step 3 that I have a problem -- my "right click menu" at that point looks like this:
There's no option to "create AAC version." Nor does this option appear anywhere in iTunes that I can find.
It really shouldn't be this confusing to create a freaking ringtone. HELP PLEASE!

Uploading to online data storage: Now cannot download songs into iTunes

Hello all.
I am not seeing this one on any FAQs, knowledge bases, or discussion boards yet:
I am doing my initial upload of files to SugarSync, a highly-recommended online data storage service. Since I started, I cannot download songs into iTunes, even from the iTunes Store.
On any new downloads from the iTunes Store, the song DOES appear in the Music library view but immediately after completing the download it shows the exclamation point warning that the file is not in its location. The new folders get created properly within the iTunes Music folder but the subfolder where the song should be is empty. Each time I had to write iTunes Support to get them to make the files available.
I can still add files manually, no problem. E.g., I can add *.mp3 or *.wav files or folders, I can convert them to AAC, etc. The glitch seems to occur only when automated loads into iTunes are operating.
As a test, I downloaded a song from Amazon. Here the problem was different but I could work around it manually. Normally the Amazon process loads songs automatically into iTunes, too. Here again, the download did create the proper folder in the iTunes Music folder, as it should, but this time the symptoms were reversed:
(a) the mp3 file WAS in its folder as it should be (w/the iTunes DL, the file was NOT there)
(b) the song did NOT appear in the iTunes Music view (w/the iTunes DL, the song DID appear)
(c) I was able to browse to the file and tell it manually to load into iTunes (w/iTunes I had to write Support and wait a day).
(I wonder what's the cause of the differences between the two cases.)
Strictly speaking, I can't PROVE the problem has anything to do with SugarSync (which otherwise seems good so far), but the DL problem started as soon as I started using it. Something in the SugarSync upload or file-monitoring process, or an odd thin gin iTunes, seems to be preventing automated, direct loads into iTunes. And since the data service runs in background, so it can monitor file changes, that might mean I can't buy music anymore! Obviously that would be a dealbreaker with SS. (I have contacted SS on this but they've not had fair chance to reply yet.)
1) Anyone else have this problem?
2) Is this permanent or just temporary while I am doing the initial upload?
3) Anyone know a solution?
(FYI, I am a highly-experienced user and otherwise quite handy with iTunes files, library moves, and backups. My library is entirely consolidated and all AAC.)
Thanks.
(Oh, and this occurred in both iTunes 8 and the new iTunes 9, so it seems unrelated to the upgrade this week.)

UPDATE 1. CHANGING BROWSER HELPED -- OR DID IT?
I called Apple iTunes Support, who said the problem is new to them. The technician's hypothesis was that something, perhaps browser-related, was interfering with the initial creation of a temporary file (which should go to the Recycle Bin) that instead causes the completed file to go to there.
He noted that iTunes, though not going through one's browser onscreen, does use settings within one's default browser. I use Mozilla Firefox, so we switched to IE as the default browser, restarted iTunes, and the song downloaded with no problem! Then I switched back to Mozilla, restarted iTunes, and it worked AGAIN with no problem!
(Dutifully I advised SugarSync, which is still investigating.)
UPDATE 2: ARTIST NAME CHANGE - SOME FILES GOT MIS-MOVED / MIS-CHANGED
Definitely something still wrong. This time some pre-existing song entries (not new downloads) lost their connection to their source file.
In iTunes, which manages folder names for artists and albums automatically, I corrected the spelling for an Artist, so immediately iTunes renamed the folder, and automatically SugarSync noted the change to be uploaded. While the changed folder name and all the songs within were still uploading to SS, in iTunes I saw exclamation points come up -- but only for some of them. Most files got moved or changed correctly, but several lost connection to their file (i.e., the file was removed for the original misnamed folder but never moved into the correctly-named folder). Weird.
Worse, in only some of those cases did I find the missing *.m4a file in the Recycle bin. (I had to retrieve old, original *.mp3 versions from another folder and re-import each into iTunes manually.) I've never seen iTunes have a problem managing an Artist rename until I started using the live SS process.
(I've reported this to SS and asked if there is a way to disable temporarily SS to see if that's the problem.)
[Note: I am willing to try downloads again but I am wary of trying to rename entire Artists (Folder) again. That was a lot of work.]
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UPDATE 3: SERIES OF TESTS - 1 FAILURE USING iTUNES
Still problem occurs, but not always. Today, I rebooted PC. I tried CD, iTunes, & Amazon. I varied having the browser open when using iTunes.
Here are the results of a series of attempts to download songs. "FAIL" means the file did not load properly into iTunes or loaded but lost its connection (exclamation point warning).
# Source Mozilla #Songs Result
1 CD Closed 1 OK
2 iTunes Closed 1 OK
3 Amazon Open 2 OK
4 iTunes Open 1 FAIL
5 Amazon Open 1 OK
6 iTunes Closed 1 OK
7 Amazon Open 2 OK
8 iTunes Open 2 OK
(I reported this to SS. Hoping they'll test and find the problem.)

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hey! i'm having exactly the same problem!
With me it's slightly different however...
I have imported a CD a while back by U2. Now i am creating a new album called the 100 greatest guitar tracks which i've found on a website, and i have almost ALL the songs in various other albums and compilations. However, i'm trying to create a copy of one song in particular by copying it to the desktop, renaming the album on the MP3 to 100 greatest guitar tracks, then reimporting it. It will not play or be imported into iTunes!
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- The initial copy of the song plays fine in iTunes.
- The song wont play in QuickTime (Error 2048: the file is not a movie file)
- The copied song works in both WinAmp and WMP.
- The altered album name does not appear to have changed in the mp3 on my desktop, as it still shows the old album name, not 100 greatest guitar tracks.
- No, it's not a WMA file.
- i've tried renaming the file extension to WMA, MPEG, AVI, and these all work with RealPlayer, WMP and all the rest. Then i tried renaming to .m4a (the extension for an apple AAC format song) and again, it just opened the iTunes window but did not play.
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This has happened once every month or two since I started using iTunes on my laptop. I haven't been able to figure out what triggers it, but every now and then my music files get renamed. Not all of them, but, for example, this time every song on 24 albums out of about 100. It's always entire albums. When it has happened, I double-click on the song, I get the message saying the "original file could not be found", then I re-find it and it starts playing. When it starts playing, iTunes will usually rename it and/or move it to another folder. Sometimes the album ends up in the "unknown artists" folder, or in the "compilations" folder, but once I track it down (through iTunes "do you want to find it") it gets moved back where it belongs.
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Actually, I found a good solution based on another question. If I re-import the folder, it finds all of those misnamed files and adds them to the library. Then I tell iTunes to keep my music folder organized, and it fixes all the file names and folders. Then after I make sure the original entries work again, I can sort the list by date added, and delete the new entries.
But I still have no idea why those albums are getting renamed. It's not just the most recent ones or the oldest ones, it's not ones that haven't been played, it's just random-seeming.

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You can use Get Info for a selected song - with a song selected at the iTunes menu bar go to File and select Get Info - the keyboard shortcut for this will be available next to the Get Info selection.
iTunes includes an option to check for album artwork for songs that don't have it, or search the web and download your own which can be added via the Get Info function for a selected song. The last tab for the various selections is the artwork - it can be added there.

Can't drag songs from itunes onto anything (desktop, flash drive, etc.)

This is weird.
All of a sudden, I can't drag songs from itunes onto the desktop, any folder on my hard drive, my flash drive, or my spare hard drive. On a health computer, if you drag a large number of files, first they land as white icons and they fill in as they get transferred. With my computer, the white icons stick around for a few second and then disappear. The first time I try, I can transfer 1-10 files successfully. After that it stops working. Here is what I've done.
1] Upgraded my system from 10.3.X to 10.4.5
2] I upgraded itunes from 7.0 to 7.3.1
Has anyone seen this before?
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Since I can not edit my own post I'll have to reply to myself... Sorry for the "spam" on the forums.
I DID find something out (while playing with this some more)...
Try and copy as many songs as you can with UNIQUE titles. I've noticed that when you drag the songs in iTunes to the desktop (or a folder) the file it creates/copies is named like so: "songtitle.mp3."
Apparently the Finder and iTunes don't play well together [enough] to prevent several files of the same name from appearing - in most OS's I've played with (Linux and Windows, in addition to other Apple & Mac OS's over the years) there's a mechanism for handling this... Windows just adds a number to the end the of the second (and all future occurring) file(s) of the same name - as does most Linux builds I've used... Apparently the Finder in OS X just doesn't do anything - at all - when it discovers this "name error."
What I had to do (I was copying my Christmas music - do you know how many "Jingle Bells.mp3" files you can have?!) was make many folders or manually rename EACH FILE one by one so that others could be copied in the same place since the file name would always be JUST THE SONG NAME and the extension (and I do tend to keep my files in higher bitrate MP3 format for easier shuffling from OS to OS as I tend to use (in case you've not noticed) many different ones at any given time).
So, try avoiding any songs with the same title (or altering the title in iTunes somehow), or make separate folders to keep the same song name files from being created in the same place; and see if that doesn't clear this problem up for you - it did for me. ^_^
And sorry for being so "wordy" on this post. ^_^;

Batch rename song titles and/or change case

Importing cd's makes a mess of my song title format.
The most common problem is a mix of cases: Proper Case (Capital for each new word) is the most common, but sometimes it's all lower case or all upper case. Especially the last one requires a lot of typing, title by title. Using an external renaming program does not affect the titles within iTunes. Is there a way to do that?
Similar problem often happens to classical music. Some cd's mention the composer and/or performer in the title field, followed by the 'song' (track name). I want to delete the composer/performer or transfer them to the appropriate fields. Can I do that in one 'batch rename' action within iTunes?
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reposted the question, so marked this one as answered

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?

Renaming songs on itunes

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