Unknown artists and album

Hello, I transferred an iTunes library from an external drive and most of the songs ended up in the new laptops iTunes okay but over 9000 files were placed in an Unknown Artists folder although if I go to the files themselves they have the artist and album listed like such. On the external hard drive, these albums were under the correct artist folders.


I noticed most or all of these tracks have the track number and/or disk number in front of the file (and that's what it's titled in iTunes) Are there any types of solutions besides grouping them together and editing the data in iTunes? Thanks.

Posted on Dec 20, 2018 10:05 AM

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Posted on Dec 21, 2018 2:50 AM

The File > Convert... menu I'm referring to is in iTunes, not Windows Explorer, but it needs to be done when iTunes holds the correct meta data. Are the tracks still in sensible artist and album folders on the external drive? If so use Edit > Preferences > Advanced to turn off the Copy files... option, add to iTunes, use the script TagFromFilename to correct details, then File > Library > Consolidate Files to make fresh copies in the main media folder, then go through the tag cleaning steps.


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Dec 21, 2018 2:50 AM in response to sd6636

The File > Convert... menu I'm referring to is in iTunes, not Windows Explorer, but it needs to be done when iTunes holds the correct meta data. Are the tracks still in sensible artist and album folders on the external drive? If so use Edit > Preferences > Advanced to turn off the Copy files... option, add to iTunes, use the script TagFromFilename to correct details, then File > Library > Consolidate Files to make fresh copies in the main media folder, then go through the tag cleaning steps.


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Dec 20, 2018 6:40 PM in response to turingtest2

I didn't see File > Convert > Convert ID3 Tags... > None from the 2nd one under the file tab. Where is it? (though I'll look again) Converting it in iTunes to the apple lossless did work for the track I did it for.


It's 9000 tracks (like 45 gb) out of a 190 GB library so I don't want to have to convert the whole library for those tracks. The tracks are isolated in the Unknown artist folder in the ITunes library but if they are put in an iTunes they show up unknown so converting them there won't have the data.


I'll look for a online converter but which format should I convert them to?

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