Meta Data corrupted.

I was cleaning up my meta tags and adding artwork to my music collection. After changing two albums, I noticed that about 30 of the albums all had a different name. The artwork , the artist and song titles stayed the same, but the album names were all different. The name they now had was not one that I was changing and to the best of my knowledge, I have never had al album with that name in my collection.


I have been going through trying to manually fix it but it seems an impossible task. I looked at some of the tools that claim to fix mislabeled songs but none really addressed incorrect album names,


Any advice?


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Posted on Apr 24, 2020 10:10 PM

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May 1, 2020 7:58 AM in response to altonfromewa beach

Music on iPhone:

Files being mislabeled and messed up on iPhone after syncing is a well discussed issue here. Take a look at those discussions for any suggestions. If the problem occurs only on iPhone, clear the entire library from iPhone, restart the device to clear its cache, then try syncing afresh.


iTunes on Mac:

If this is a result of iTunes Match mislabeling, then please search for this term and post with a title that makes this clear. I’ve seen other similar posts. I don’t use “matching” services exactly because the matching algorithms could never deal properly with my collection, so I can’t help.


Before doing anything drastic, make a backup of your current library.

If you made a backup before this occurred, try afresh with that backup.

If the files are in iCloud, create a new, empty iTunes Library and let it populate from iCloud. To create a new Library, or open a different Library, launch iTunes while holding down the Option key.


iTunes has an option to download missing artwork, but not to check, or complete other tags. Purchased music can be deleted, then redownload Ed. Take a look at MPFreaker from LairWare if you think it might help. The developer is very responsive, so you could actually ask him if he thinks it would do anything in your specific case.

https://www.lairware.com/mpfreaker/


Apr 26, 2020 7:29 PM in response to altonfromewa beach

None of the utilities or Apple Scripts that I’m aware of can overwrite the Album tag on their own. Something like MPFreaker can certainly find what album a song comes from, but for best results you would need to clear that tag first. As is, you might as well change the album name manually. Sorry.


[I’m assuming you know enough to only modify metadata from within the app, not directly on the files in the Library files.]

May 1, 2020 12:08 AM in response to Rysz

Thanks Rysz,

I am afraid im going to have to just scrub my entire music collection. It got weirder today. I was Playing music on my iPhone, i had it filtered to a specific genre. and while the music and the song were correct, the genre listed was wrong, the album was wrong and the album name was 50 shades of Grey, the sound track. I have never even searched for that.


Do you know how to identify music i purchased from Apple versus music that they are matching? I think the easier solution is delete all the CDs I have burned and start over.


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