Can't Fix Song Titles With Four Letter Names

Hi,
I've searched for answers for my problem and tried a few things, but I still can't seem to resolve the issue. I'm using iTunes version 9.2.1.4 with my iPhone 4 and many of my songs look like GHTR, XTRW, HJKQ, etc. They play correctly in iTunes but the titles are nonsense. The options to "keep itunes media folder organized" and "copy files to itunes media folder when adding to library" are checked.

So far I've tried the following with no luck:
1. Copied my whole music folder in explorer to another folder and deleted my library in iTunes. Then assigned the new folder in iTunes by clicking "add folder to libary".
2. Right clicked the song and selected "get track names".
3. Downloaded and tried Magic MP3 Tagger from MusicBrainz. It scanned the folder where these songs are located, but didn't rename them or fix them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dell Inspiron 1720, Windows Vista

Posted on Sep 30, 2010 10:34 AM

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Sep 30, 2010 11:17 AM in response to kris kundra

These are likely to be .wav or .mpg files imported from an iPod. Such files don't carry a tag and when they are placed on a iPod they are given the seemingly random and meaningless names to prevent casual file sharing. Assuming this is your library that you've attempted to restore from your iPod/iPhone then, in the absence of anything useful from MusicBrainz there is nothing for it but for you to listen to each track and retag it by hand.

tt2

Sep 30, 2010 2:12 PM in response to Katrina S.

I'm not sure to be honest. I'm not even sure when the problem started as I've been living with them for awhile. Obviously I don't play them because I don't know what they are. When I click on "get track names", itunes says "itunes cannot get cd track names for songs that were not imported using itunes. To allow itunes to look for cd track names for this song, import the song again using itunes."

They might not have come from cds.

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