iTunes won't let me edit songs

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iTunes won't let me edit songs

when i try to edit a song in itunes, everything is greyed out and won't let me change anything. When i run the program as administrator i can (BTW i am an administrator on this computer) but its a hassle having to do this everytime i open itunes + it doesn't show what i'm listening to in MSN. This obviusly wasn't a problem when i had XP. How do i fix this?

Custom Built, Windows 7

Posted on Nov 29, 2009 12:22 PM

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achan21 Author

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Dec 1, 2009 8:27 PM in response to achan21

anybody?

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Katrina S.

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Dec 1, 2009 9:34 PM in response to achan21

It's the operating system permissions on your music files/folders.
Take full control & ownership of the entire music/itunes folder, and all its subfolders.

http://www.blogsdna.com/2159/how-to-take-ownership-grant-permissions-to-access-f iles-folder-in-windows-7.htm

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achan21 Author

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Dec 2, 2009 4:50 PM in response to Katrina S.

I've already tried that to no avail. And the weird thing is, some i can edit and some i cannot.

I was looking at another folder, where I have other music and the permissions for the folder for "Users (AdelynMAIN\Users) doesn't have modify or write check marked but i can edit music in that folder. The one in the main music folder everything is checked for "Users (AdelynMAIN\Users)" and it doesn't work...
Now if i move a .mp3 from the main to the other folder, everything is still greyed out.

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Katrina S.

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Dec 2, 2009 11:34 PM in response to achan21

Then maybe it is an upper-level folder that needs to be owned and have full control over. Such as C:Music (or whatever is on your PC).
Or another idea, maybe change it so everyone has full control.

And if THAT doesn't work, start looking at UAC for Windows 7. I know in Vista, many users here on apple discussions couldn't just take full control & ownership of the music folder & subfolders...they had to temporarily turn off Vista UAC before they could edit files.

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achan21 Author

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Dec 3, 2009 5:04 PM in response to Katrina S.

Actualy, thats almost exactly where my folder is. Except it's on my D:\Music
D:\ is basically the other partition i made of my 500gb. C: only has the system/program files and all that jazz. How do i get full control + own it?

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