What is iTunes doing to my imported songs?

I have an issue with iTunes. I import song as mp3s from my CDs. When I then copy those mp3s to a flash memory drive from my MacBook, they won't play in an external application [like my PS3]. I can do the identical thing with my PC, i.e. copy mp3s from the CD, then to a flash memory drive which will play on the PS3. So, I assume that iTunes is doing something to my songs to make them unplayable in another application. I'd appreciate any insight into how to get iTunes to create usable and playable mp3s. Thanks!

Sorry for the brief response. They are imported from the original audio CDs into iTunes as mp3s. I then copy them onto the flash drive. Just to check, I transferred mp3s to the flash drive from my PC, and those seem to work. Using the PC, I did briefly "look" at the nonfunctional mp3s that were transferred onto the flash drive via Macbook/iTunes. All of the nonfunctional mp3s had a "._-" prefix before the track number and name. For example "._-01 China Grove.mp3." Again, I appreciate the help. I'd love to be able to use my Macbook to transfer songs to the flash drive.

Similar Messages

TS2972 I just updated all of our computers to itunes 11 and now when we try to use our home sharing, we can't import songs. What happened to the easily located "import song" feature? I wish now that I wouldn't have updated to the new itunes 11.

I recently updated all of the computers in the house to itunes 11. Now when we try to import songs from homesharing, we are unable to. What happened to the conveniently located "import song" button on the old version of itunes. Please help an old mother out please!

diesel vdub, i use 11.1.1
solved the issue today. first sync with itunes, so all the stiff you bought on the mobile will be backuped.
1. uncheck sync music in itunes and sync. all the music will be erased from mobile device
2. check music player on the mobile device. just the unwanted songs will still be there
3. go on the iphone to settings, general, usage, music player. there is just a few mb from the remaining unwanted songs. swipeleft and erase the content. switch iphone off and on again
4. repeat step 2. there will be no data. otherwise repeat step 3
5. check sync music in itunes and sync. all the music will be back again but not the unwanted songs.

What Is iTunes Doing? 20 min. progress bar to write tags for 1 file?

What the heck is going on? I try to simply write info tags for one new movie conversion. I'm looking at at progress bar (??!!!) for twenty minutes now. What is itunes doing? This is beyond spooky.

ok, the writing tags to the video files thing I have seen before. I think in the end I switched to using a different program to convert videos, and it pretty much stopped happening. It puzzled me for a while, but after monkeying around with it I pretty much found it was a problem with the video file. If I had a problem with a certain file, then re-encoded it with different program, then the slow write to tags thing didn't happen. As for the hiccup playing video, that'll probably always happen to some extent. Is the usb drive idle before you are trying to play video off of it? Once itunes requests the video file from the drive it has to spin up the hard drive before it can play video from it. You could set your external drive to never spin down. Also check the firmware for the external drive, they often have updated firmware available for externals that no one ever checks on.

Had to reinstall OS and Itunes..Will not import songs from library folder

I reinstalled my Windows 7 OS and Installed Itunes 10.6 but when I add my ipodmusic folder to the library it does not import the songs into the library. I tries dragging and dropping a few songs but it deletes them from the folder.
Any ideas?

I think I'm having the same problem. This is what I get when I try to import songs:
The iPod “Ian” is linked to another iTunes music library. Do you want to change the link to this iTunes music library and replace all existing songs and playlists on this I Pod with those from this library?
Yes No
What is this about? My buddy accidentally hit yes, and lost all of the songs on his iPod. I simply want to update my iPod with new material. This new material was obtained while using a different computer than what I originally used when I first got my iPod. Does anyone know how I can get music from a new computer on my iPod

New Ipod Nano on Itunes but won't import songs

I just plugged my son's brand new Ipod Nano into Itunes and it appeared on the left side as David's Ipod but when I went to import songs from my library it won't allow me to do it. It has a circle with a line through it anytime I attempt to drag a song on to it. I have two other Ipods (nano and mini) and never had this happen. I installed the software that came with it before this happened. It also says something like Ipod can't be upgraded because playlists no longer exist...When I first plugged it in the Itunes said that the library was too large for the nano and that it could select the songs for me. When I said yes it started downloading all these songs from the library (songs my son didn't want). I managed to stop it by having everything deleted off the nano but now I can't import anything. Help!!! Thanks

I actually have the windows XP and not ME if that makes a difference

ITunes freezing -- can't import songs

This morning I upgraded the new iTunes, hoping that the bugs from the last version were gone. I'm an idiot.
I went to sync my iPod, and for over 10 minutes, iTunes has been stuck on "Verifying Owner's iPod". Last night, iTunes froze up on me for the first time, while trying to get the 2.5 GB of new music I had imported transferred onto my iPod.
I love my iPod, but the problems with iTunes are making my purchase very frustrating.

It appears that one of the reasons I could not import songs is because iTunes 11 only seems to recognise .mp3 or .aac
I had been trying to import .caf and .aif
The old version used to recognise most audio file types and would also convert mot types to another ........... so long as they were .mp3, .aif or .caf

Itunes/Nano will not import songs from windows

Please help me! I can't get all of my songs from the media player onto the Itunes/nano.

a bit more explanation is needed i think...
what exactley is your problem? Getting songs into iTunes or putting them on your iPod?

What is itunes doing with my files?

I am importing severalfiles from an agudiobook, the file plays but does not aapear in the browser, I have not modified th tags, but can't locate the original file, this used to be a piece of cake, now it's plain annoyong
thanks

Sorry for the brief response. They are imported from the original audio CDs into iTunes as mp3s. I then copy them onto the flash drive. Just to check, I transferred mp3s to the flash drive from my PC, and those seem to work. Using the PC, I did briefly "look" at the nonfunctional mp3s that were transferred onto the flash drive via Macbook/iTunes. All of the nonfunctional mp3s had a "._-" prefix before the track number and name. For example "._-01 China Grove.mp3." Again, I appreciate the help. I'd love to be able to use my Macbook to transfer songs to the flash drive.

ITunes does not sync all songs to iPod

Hi, I have the older iPod with the first color screen, 30gb. Now, for some reason upon syncing (multiple attempts), I'm only able to sync 3921 of 4,185 songs in my library on an external hard drive. All of my songs were imported from my CDs while some were bought at the iTunes store. I'm not sure why 264 songs won't import nor which songs they are.
Is there a way to figure out why they won't import and which songs are "stuck" in iTunes?
Thanks,
Mike

so i restore my ipod (30gb) to its original settings due to the fact that i had a lock code on there and couldnt remember what it was to unlock volume...so restored it and now all my songs arent syncing on it..

HT1766 what is iTunes doing when it's "optimizing" the photos on my iPhone?

I'm syncing my iPhone and the status bar at the top of the iTunes window says it's "optimizing" ... What does that mean? What's happening to my pictures? are they being "saved" or "copied to a folder" or any other normal description of what's happening to my photos?
Seriously.

Device reached the limit of three free icloud accounts that Apple allows to be created on one device. Need to use another Apple device to create new account. Still can use icloud accounts but can't create new one.

Itunes 8 will not import songs from audio CD

I have windows Vista and a brand new Dell computer. I installed the latest version of Itunes 8. Itunes recognizes the CD, gets the gracenotes and track names but as soon as I hit the import CD button ITunes freezes and stops responding. Diagnostics show no problem. Windows Media center has no problem "ripping" songs from the CD so there is no permission problem. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and get the same problem. HELP

depending on personal preference it's best to rip through windows media player. itunes searches the my music folder (where all riped windows media goes)and updates from there anyway. and that way if i tunes crashes for any reason you still have a back up of the songs. you can also update from windows media by clicking "add folder to library" and selecting the folder out of the my music sectoion. your only other bet is to backup any music currently on itunes, uninstall then re-install.

HT1473 If you transfer a song from a cd to itunes, does it erase the songs on the cd?

Hello. I'm was going to transfer my songs from my cd that i purchased but when i was doing that, my cd started scratching so i was wondering if i transfer it onto itunes, will the cd that i purchased become blank?
please answer.

Ripping tracks from a CD does not affect the CD in any way.
If you are hearing a scratching sound, first try playing the CD in the same CD-ROM drive on your computer and see if it plays normally.

HT4527 How can I get me songs from my iTouch to my new iPhone? iTunes does not recognize the songs that I got from my own CD collection. My laptop is not a Mac so senuti does not work.

I have an iTouch with songs that are on there from my CDs as well as purchased songs from iTunes. Currently my iTouch plays all of my music. When I went to sync my new iPhone4S using my PC (Windows with latest upgrade), it only will sync songs I purchases from iTunes. It appears all of the music on iTunes that I put there from my CDs have an ! next to them, and they will not sync to my new phone. How can I get my iTunes account to recognize my CDs as legal muisc that I can put on my iPhone? I do not want to reload all 1,600 songs from my CD collection.

Songs with an exclamation mark against them are songs that iTunes can't find. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the files, or that the drive the live on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
tt2

ITunes does not open some songs

I bought some songs off an online store and when I double click them the iTunes icon bounces in the dock once and brings the window to the front but nothing happens. When I drag, them to the iTunes window, it recognizes me attempting to add songs (with a blue border around the library) but then nothing happens. This is not the first set of music to have done this, and this is not iTunes 10 specific.
I have checked all of the ID3 tags and even tried renaming the files, but to no avail.
Any reason why this is happening?

if those songs are in mp3 format, try running them by _*MP3 Validator*_.
JGG

ITunes does only play some songs...?!

Hey,
I have the following problem:
My iTunes 8 just changed "over night". Yesterday I could play and listen to every Song in my library. But these days I can only play a few songs out of my library!
The most songs are just not playing. To be sure I tried the VLC player to play the songs, iTunes coulndt play. And VLC coulnd play them too.
So why can I only play just these few songs?
And interesting fact I discovered: The songs iTunes cant play have no information about wether its "stereo" or not also if it has an "ID3 Tag" or wether its Layer 3 or some other.
I thank you very much for help!
greeting,
Richard

delete the song from the library and redownload the song again
if you are unsure how to redownload the song, follow these steps
download previosly purchase content
hope this helps:)

What is iTunes doing to my imported songs?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for