Another iTunes problem

Willis

Willis

Willis

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I really cannot understand how apple can make such good hardware and great OS and then come up with iTunes. It has got to be the worse music software ever. I know people are going to say it works fine for me but I have to say I have found it nothing but one big headache. So much for a nice easy transfer from my PC :rolleyes:

Now I've had my moan here is now whats wrong, all my albums are not in track listed order and they go like 11,6,5,1 etc why cant it just sort it by track numbers :confused: When I play a album I want to here from 1 - 12.
 
I get that occasionally but not that often these days, you can sort it by manually editing each track and setting a number, ie 1 of 12, 2 of 12 etc but it's a bit of a pain to do it.

I've grown to quite like iTunes, it just seems better on OS X than it does on Windows and I've slowly moved my entire library onto it, letting it manage everything itself.
 
It's definitely worth while taking a bit of time to get all the info sorted out for albums that are a bit disorganised like that. I've found one of the best ways to sort them is 'Album by Artist' so that the full album sticks together.
 
Part of the problem I found with sorting in iTunes was when songs had info like album artist and composer in them. If they varied even slightly, they will mess the track order up.
I just highlighted the albums that were causing the problems, right clicked and selected Get Info and then simply ticked Album Artist or whichever was causing the problem and clicked ok.
Sorting in iTunes is hard to get your head round at first, but once you do, it's great.
 
You've been able to sort by track number ever since...at least iTunes 4!

Right click on the top bar (where is says Artist, Time etc.) and the scroll down to select Track Number :)
 
hendrix said:
It's definitely worth while taking a bit of time to get all the info sorted out for albums that are a bit disorganised like that. I've found one of the best ways to sort them is 'Album by Artist' so that the full album sticks together.
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You do need to put the time in to fill in all the details on all your songs.

Once you've taken the time to do this iTunes is great to use.
 
TheMagicPirate said:
You do need to put the time in to fill in all the details on all your songs.

Once you've taken the time to do this iTunes is great to use.
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Thats the thing why do I have to spend time doing it, window media player was so much easier, see a album, click play all and if by magic it plays the hole album from 1-12.

What has got me angry is when the guy in the apple shop says its easy and iTunes dose all the hard work for you and sorts everything out when to be honest my music is all over the place now.

another example of stupid itunes

Have a Cream Ibiza album which is mixed and on 2 disc's so needs to be order, now when I go into the folder it shows



Track 1
Track 1
Track 2
Track 2
Track 3
Track 3

and so on...

Now it just plays it in that order which is stupid :mad: I've spent so much time trying with itunes that I ready to give up all together but guess what I've got no other option but to use the ****** app. :mad:
 
iTunes does sort it for you. But only after you spent ages giving your music all the correct track info...

I can see why you would be miffed. Try adding 4 or 5 albums and filling in the track info and see how it works and looks. I pretty much guarantee you'll want to spend the time getting the rest of your music in order.
 
TheMagicPirate said:
iTunes does sort it for you. But only after you spent ages giving your music all the correct track info...

I can see why you would be miffed. Try adding 4 or 5 albums and filling in the track info and see how it works and looks. I pretty much guarantee you'll want to spend the time getting the rest of your music in order.
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Thanks for the info but I don't want to spend ages filling out this and that, they don't tell you this when your about to spend £1400 on a new iMac. I said its going to be used for photo's and music, photo side has been great but the music side has been far worse than anything I've experienced on my old PC. It feels I'm being forced to do this as i have no other option apart from go back to a windows PC. :confused:

Now my music folder on my external is all messed up and no longer shows album folder but artist folders :mad:
 
To be honest, it doesn't take much effort to sort it out.

iTunes for the vast majority will sort everything out. I've had loads of albums on there untouched (apart from getting Album Artwork) and just turned Track ID on there now to see if everything was fine - it was.
 
Right, here's a tip if you have multi CD compilations, or even just multi CD albums in general.

Stick the first disk in and rip it.

Once that's done, select all the tracks, right click and select info. Make sure that you use the 'disk number x of x' bit and tell it that this is disk 1 of 2 or disk 1 of 3 or whatever it is.

If it's a compilation, make sure that compilation is checked.

Then repeat with the rest of the disks. You should find the grouping is correct.

I used to hate iTunes but I've really grown to like it, I like the way it handles my music and it's forced me to do what I've been putting off for years, and that's to finally sort my music collection out :)
 
Willis said:
another example of stupid itunes

Have a Cream Ibiza album which is mixed and on 2 disc's so needs to be order, now when I go into the folder it shows



Track 1
Track 1
Track 2
Track 2
Track 3
Track 3

and so on...

Now it just plays it in that order which is stupid :mad: I've spent so much time trying with itunes that I ready to give up all together but guess what I've got no other option but to use the ****** app. :mad:
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All you need to do is select the files as a compilation and put cd 1 as 1 of 2 and cd 2 as 2 of 2 and it will play fine. The problem is that the cds have not been tagged correctly. Are these one you are ripping yourself in itunes? If they are from another source which has not tagged them correctly you will get problems.
 
Feek said:
Right, here's a tip if you have multi CD compilations, or even just multi CD albums in general.

Stick the first disk in and rip it.

Once that's done, select all the tracks, right click and select info. Make sure that you use the 'disk number x of x' bit and tell it that this is disk 1 of 2 or disk 1 of 3 or whatever it is.

If it's a compilation, make sure that compilation is checked.

Then repeat with the rest of the disks. You should find the grouping is correct.

I used to hate iTunes but I've really grown to like it, I like the way it handles my music and it's forced me to do what I've been putting off for years, and that's to finally sort my music collection out :)
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I dont have the disks its just music I have in folders from my PC, the thing is my music collection was just fine before iTunes came along. All in folders with Artist & Album name.
 
Willis said:
I dont have the disks its just music I have in folders from my PC, the thing is my music collection was just fine before iTunes came along. All in folders with Artist & Album name.
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Sorry, but the problem is not just iTunes, it's the existing tagging that is the large part of the issue. It's doing what it can with what it's given which doesn't appear to be very good. The disk x of x field is part of the tag for a reason and it sounds like it's missing from your existing files. It's not just you, mine were the same.

Do what I said, but only drag one CD worth in at a time instead of ripping one at a time.
 
Willis said:
No common sense would have been not buying a £1400 flash MP3 player. :D
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Wait until you start doing movies, then you'll have something to complain about. ;)

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