Renaming Tracks ??

I have a collection of about 1000 tracks and most of them are missing bits of information. Like track name or artist etc... I heard that there was a way to get the internet to change all of them automatically? I there such a way??
Thanks,
Tom.

I heard that there was a way to get the internet to change all of them automatically? I there such a way??
Not that I am aware of.... but to edit track names, you can right-click the song in your iTunes Library and then click Get Info, Then click on the Info Tab and add your information.

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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.

User Interface bug when renaming tracks in list views

When renaming tracks in the list views, there is a user interface bug that makes it impossible to see what you're doing. When you select a track in the list view, this is what it looks like:
Note how the text is white on the darker blue background. When you click again, to open the inline text editor to rename, this is what you get:
The background color of the text editor is white, just like the text, so when you type, you can't see what you're typing, nor can you see where in the original text your text insertion cursor is located.
Thanks!
Steve.

I'm frustrated with this same problem. In my case this happens only in my 10.5 macbook air and not in my 10.4 macbook pro. I've been renaming files in the same way in 10.2/10.3 and this never happened. Should be a bug. I've been searching for this issue and found this post at last - I really wonder why there aren't so many people mentioning this.

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i am a regular user of media center but there was a problem with renaming tracks so i used itunes to rename the tracks.
i used media center to put all my album art on my mp3s, and as soon as i use itunes the dam program deletes many hours of work, it was good that itunes sorted out my renaming tracks but why did the itunes delete all my album art? and is there a way to get it back?
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i regret using that itunes now

i knew it, phew.... becasue i don't use itunes i mainly use media center, media center does not have the option to rename songs that are already on the ipod thats why i used itunes. and thats is why my songs are not in itunes libary.
i am going to try something else, it's going to be very long but what option do i have i will re sync ipod and add album art to each song via itunes. becasue i can't add album art to songs that already on the ipod with meda center. i hope i can do that?
dam i selected all the files and itunes deleted everything! now i have to start all over anyway!

Can you batch rename tracks in iTunes for Mac?

I want to do a sequential track naming, but I can't figure how to do this and the Doug's applescript isn't working - it renames my FILES instead of the TRACKS!
These tracks are from an audiobook on CD, and it's tiresome to have to search for the "part" when all the tracks are numbered 1-99 and the only thing keeping them from being in the wrong order is the fact that I told iTunes the disc order in the 'Get Info' menu. It wouldn't be so hard on the MacBook, but I usually listen to these on my iPhone, and scrolling through literally hundreds of tracks takes forever, and sometimes I STILL can't find which track was playing last!
I've done a batch rename using an Automator workflow setup I found on the web, but I can't find anything that lets me actually rename the tracks. I've even deleted the tracks from iTunes, renamed the files, deleted the faulty script that screwed things up, and it STILL comes up with the weird numbers and track numbers and renames the files in Finder!!!
I'm getting really frustrated with this and don't want to have to rename tracks by hand because that takes HOURS.

Hi,
Here is an AppleScript example of how to rename tracks in iTunes :
display dialog "What will be the base name?" default answer "Track "
set baseName to text returned of the result
set n to 1 -- the starting number
tell application "iTunes"
      repeat with thisTrack in (get selection) -- rename selected tracks
            set name of thisTrack to baseName & n
            set n to n + 1
      end repeat
end tell
Without more information, I can not make script specific to your needs.

Anyone have success using mergetrack to rename tracks?

We have tried the Java API and some other test code to rename tracks using mergetrack. All of the other track metadata appears to be correctly editable except the track name. Have any of you been able to rename tracks without re-uploading files? If so, how?
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Marc

There is a current workaround for this problem.
In your web service, use the <Title></Title> tags in place of the Name tags.
The sample XML should look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ITunesUDocument>
<Version>1.0.1</Version>
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<TrackHandle>12345</TrackHandle>
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<DiscNumber/>
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<DownloadURL/>
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Manualy renaming tracks in itunes not working properly?

this being my 5th or 6th ipod since ive started collecting them several years ago, i shouldnt even have this question
i manually manage all of my songs/play lists through itunes to begin with
when i rename the artist, album or genre i have no problems,
but when i try and rename the NAME of the track is almost seems that itunes clicks me out of the window making it almost impossible for me to rename a song.
i just updated to itunes 7.4.3, which i thought would solve the problem, and also restored my ipod once, which also has the most upto date software on it.
i just had a 5generation 80 gig ipod about a month ago which i sold to buy the new thinner classic... i had NO problems ever with that one... but this new classic ipod made me install a new version of itunes which has done NOTHING BUT GIVE ME PROBLEMS.
anyone have the same problem?

Yes! I've noticed the same thing in the most recent release or two of iTunes. Occasionally I like to change the track name from the main iTunes screen by using the <F2> key to go into "text edit" mode while the track is selected. This always worked fine before. But now, if I try to use the arrow keys or the delete key to move through or edit the selected text (track title), it seems to "save" the change (or not?) and immediately kick me out of "edit mode".
There's something funny going on. Sure wish it would go back to the way it was before. Editing track names from the main screen is no longer really viable.
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Renaming Tracks Freezes iTunes for Two Minutes

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When renaming audio tracks in a playlist on iPhone 3G, for instance by adding a zero in order to
correct a sequence of tracks in a playlist
iTunes freezes for about two minutes.
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this is probabaly a very simple fix but for some reason its foxing me today,
in CS6 when importing multiple audio files, is there a way of automatically naming the tracks the same as the file name.
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thanks.

Thanks for the reply Steve, I understand the implications your refering to, I just wondered if there was an option to turn this on if required, so for instance if i am importing 70 or so audio files i dont have to go through and name each track one by one.
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regards

Itunes renaming songs and tracks to the incorrect ones, e.g. renaming all Various Artists to be Gym Class Heroes when played on my ipod, and incorrectly renaming tracks at random.

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Right click on the track you want to edit, and select "get info." It will bring up a window. At the top of the window click the "Info" tab, and then you will see all the song info, and you can edit it by selecting and typing the desired information in the fields provided.

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