itunes mixing up file structure

FrankJH

FrankJH

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I have about 20GB of tunes burnt from original cd's via media player and the structure given automatically seems to be a reasonable one to use even on a small screen ( ie not too much scrolling required)

When I import all these mp3's to itunes it mucks the list up completely ie all the Phil Collins variations (Serious Band, solo, various duets) are all listed seperately under Artist name - rahter than collectively under Phil Collins and then whichever album

So instead of 100 artists/ items or whatever being listed on the initial Artist list on My ipod this is mulitplied by magnitudes ( soundtrack albums can take upto ten lines rather than just Various / whatever album)

Surely the tags have to be correct otherwise media player wouldnt have listed them correctly to start with

Anyway I can force Itunes /Ipod to list them "properly" without changing the tags (or is there an auto tag updater or whatever that can do this easily)

20 GB (or 4000 tracks) will take some editing if I have to do this manualy
 
hold on but tags have worked for MP so why not itunes

all my tags have Phil Collins (as the example) so no matter what software it should be listed there, not on a seperate List saying Phil Collins & Eric Clapton or some such


Its not being listed as track one from mystery artist or whatever

All the info is actually there, so it shouldnt need re-tagging

I could understand if the info wasnt there - but its just itunes not reading it correctly. Just because one track off an album is a duet shouldnt mean its listed seperately , should be filed under artist and then under the album surely?

james.miller said:
me, i dont like tagging. i just use software that doesnt sort by tag - problem solved.










yes im lazy lol
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Is there ipod software that doesnt sort by tags - maybe thats my solution? (Even though as far as I can tell as above the tags are there , just not being read)



I am not trying to be difficult or arguementative but I have seen devices which pick up this correctly - so why doesnt itunes?
 
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dmpoole said:
I've just de-tagged an album and played it in Media Player. It was still telling me what the Artist, Album and Name Of Song are because it must be reading the directory and song title and not TAG's.

Download and install ID3-tagit and see what the TAG's say in that. I'm betting that they're not right.
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ok thank you
 
Got really frustrated with Anapod last night - free version would only transfer one track at a time , and you had to accept about three different screens for each one - major grrrrrrrr

ended up buying the product for £20 - which has actually cost me £40 due to the VAT causing me to go over my cc limit - and anapod kept on crashing and not updating all the tracks (after supposedly being set to add tags automatically even if its just track No in present folder) it still puts them all over

So I am pretty annoyed as I have to go for four days with about 1Gb out of 20 of my music
 
thank you everyone especially dmpoole

One question ( well sort of two but hopefully the same technique will work)

I have loads of original cd's that are various artists ( general compilations and music soundtracks etc) that I want to file all in one place lets say under Artist list and call it Compilation , however I want the original information ie actual track name and artist to be there also. Is this possible?

Ie so between Clapton and Dire Straits there will be one entry saying Compilations and then within that "folder" there should be ;Flashdance, Footloose, Top Gun folders etc etc etc with all the tracks listed in the right order with correct track/artist name?

Along the same lines I also want to burn all my cd singles and put them under a "singles" folder entry
 
That doesnt actually work for example I have a track thats listed as

Rod Stewart & Bryan Adams & Sting

This is a track from a Bryan Adams album and as such I want it listed under his albums however with the other two's info there

Even though the album tag is correct the track even edited is listed under a seperate artist as....

Bryan Adams & RS and Sting

rather than being included in the album as it should from the original Artist selection

Sorry its hard to explain I hope this is making sense

....edit

I have figured out how to do it if anyone is interested ........

What I had to do is basically only have Bryan Adams as the Artist and in the song title have featuring RS and Sting

A bit of a work around

Also with Soundtracks I found this

Call the Artist "Various", the Album name for eg "Top Gun" and then have all the track names saying "featuring ...."

Takes a lot of manual editing otherwise all the ten tracks on the cd are dotted around under different artist name rather than as one collection
 
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did you mean Album / Artist sort name?

I had to hunt through id3-TagIT to even see the option as it wasnt seemingly coming up anywhere else
 
thanks - I cant edit that anywhere else, so I am wondering how it will affect it.

Will play around , thank you for letting Me know
 
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