Unable to sort music in albums
Recently I had a computer crash and I'm having to rebuild my Itunes library on a new PC running Windows 7 64 bit.
When I re-detected all my music it's absolutely all over the place and half of it won't allow me to sort it.
I know how to rename the album and artist fields in order to combine songs into one album, but some songs have the fields grayed out and won't allow changes, and other songs seem to allow me to make the changes but then don't keep those settings after I click ok. This is really driving me insane. I hate Itunes. Why can't they just do drag and drop like everyone else? Or better yet, reverse sync my phone to rebuild itunes instead of erasing my phone. HATE. ITUNES.
I'm running 11.1.5.5. I'm afraid to run the latest update.. never know what else will be screwed up.
Does anyone have any solutions to this?
Thanks in advance,
Samantha
Do you still have the greyed out fields issue? The permissions tip should be a complete fix for that.
Changes that revert themselves with mp3 files might be down to multiple tags.
Multiple tags
The ID3 specification allow files to have multiple tags in different versions and languages, but iTunes only works properly with single tags. When multiple tags are present it can sometimes fail to apply updates to the tag that it reads back (presumably updating one of the others in the file) and it is also possible that iPod & iTunes may have different rules for which tag they give priority to. This could lead to situations in which everything is properly organised in iTunes but then inexplicably falls apart on an iPod. There are 3rd party tag editors that can manipulate multiple tags but I don't have a recommendation offhand. A workaround in iTunes is to use right-click context menu Convert ID3 Tags... > None a few times to remove all existing tags and then Convert ID3 Tags... > v2.3 to build a fresh tag with the information still held in the iTunes database. I've read in the past that iTunes isn't fully compliant with the v2.4 spec. although this may no longer be the case, however support for v2.3 is widespread so I would suggest using v2.3 over v2.4.
iTunes Store metadata
If you notice that changes you've made to purchased tracks revert to the original iTunes Store metadata then...
In iTunes go to Edit > Preferences > Store and turn off
Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases
Share details about your library with Apple
On any iOS device go to Settings > Music and turn off
Show All Music
Close and reopen iTunes and/or reset the device and you should see your version of the metadata for each track rather than the original store data.
See also Getting iTunes & Windows Media Player to play nicely just in case WMP is involved, though that is usually a one time problem.
And see Grouping tracks into albums for advice on the organizing the library once your changes will stick.
tt2
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