Another iTunes problem

[Willis]

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

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 When I play a album I want to here from 1 - 12.

 

[Willis]

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.

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 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.

 

[Willis]

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.

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.

Now my music folder on my external is all messed up and no longer shows album folder but artist folders

 

[Willis]

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

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]

The major problem we really need to address here is that you're listening to "a Cream Ibiza album"

I know look how stir crazy I've become , I've started listing to Cream albums.

 

[Willis]

I've taken a chill pill and going to take my time and sort things out one by one. another question is if I use Time machine does it back up my iTunes library also so I don't have to do this again.

 

[Willis]

You mean you've applied common sense?

No common sense would have been not buying a £1400 flash MP3 player.

 

[Willis]

Wait until you start doing movies, then you'll have something to complain about.

Oh Christ

 

[Willis]

As far as I know, yes. Time Machine does include your music directory which is the default location for the itunes library.

I've changed the default to my external HD

Will it still work.