problem with song names

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problem with song names

Hey, I'm having this problem with song names. For example, instead of the song title being "Song Title" it will be like "Artist Name - Song Title". It's like this for half my files. I'm trying to organize my music files and every time I fix it, it keeps going back.

This has happened to me before and usually if I double click it, it will automatically change. This time, nothing seems to work except doing it manually ("Get Info)" and that would take too long since I have 7,000 files like this. I posted this on another board and somebody said to right click the songs and click Update ID3 v2.4 which originally worked, but now nothing but manually doing it works.

This is like this when I open it for other programs, but I know iTunes caused. I think it has something to do with the "Keep my iTunes Folder Organized" check because iTunes renames the file. I also tried reinstalling itunes and readding my files.

Thanks for any help!

Windows Vista

Posted on Nov 23, 2007 12:01 AM

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Answer 1

polydorus

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Nov 23, 2007 1:46 AM in response to fiver

I don't completely understand what you are trying to say, but iTunes doesn't automatically change your tag information.

iTunes stores a copy of the tag information in the library database. When you play a track, iTunes re-reads the tag information from the song file and updates the library data. This produces the efferct that iTunes appears to change tag information but it isn't, it is meerly reflecting a change that already happend.

Do you have any other software on your PC that can automatically change tag information? For example Windows Media player can do it if you select an option to retrieve data from the internet and overwrite existing info. But other software may do it too.

If you want to force iTunes to re-read all tags, go to your Music view and go to Edit>>Select All. Then right click in the selection and choose Get Info. Don't change anything, just exit by clicking OK. iTunes will update the library with the tag information from the song files.

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fiver Author

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Nov 23, 2007 10:08 AM in response to polydorus

I did that and that originally fixed the problem. The problem is now all the names of my music files have wrong names and nothing I've done changes it. An example of the wrong names would be "Keely Aimee" by the Good Life would be named "The Good Life - Keely Aimee", but it's like this for half my songs.

It's a confusing problem to me too because nothing like this has happened before. Usually, I was able to fix the incorrect names, but now it seems permanent. Thanks for any help.

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polydorus

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Nov 23, 2007 10:22 AM in response to fiver

It sounds as though you have some other software modifying your tags. I seem to remember someone having a problem with a Roxio product that had been configured to do this.

Do you have any other software on your PC that deals with music files?

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fiver Author

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Nov 30, 2007 12:29 PM in response to polydorus

Thanks, I think that's it! I had Roxio installed with my comp., so I just uninstalled it because I've never used it. Do you know if there's any other programs that do this? I think this solved the problem, but I'm not sure because I think a few of the files I recently added had their name changed. The reason I need to know is because I'm re-naming all my music files and I want to be sure iTunes won't change them back if I re-add my files.

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Answer 5

Katrina S.

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Nov 30, 2007 12:39 PM in response to fiver

fiver, polydorus is correct. iTunes doesn't have a feature to automatically change track info once it has been imported into the iTunes library.

Also check your Windows Media Player settings
Tools > Options > Privacy tab
uncheck the box for "Update music files by retrieving media info from the Internet"

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