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Only HALF of the name gets imported

I love classical, however the names of songs are typically long and have a lot of similar words "15 [Orgel Bรผchlein] Helft mir Gotts Gรผte preisen, BWV 613."


When I drag the songs into my itunes library only part of the song name is there! "[Orgel-Bchlein]-=Helft mir Go" This is is the name I got from the above song.

Here are some examples of what I mean: User uploaded file, as you can see the name gets cut off.

At this point I'm completly stumped. I have been typing the names in by hand but no one wants to do that!


Any sugesstions?

Thanks ๐Ÿ™‚


-Tyler

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 1.8 GHz Intel Core i7

Posted on Nov 28, 2012 7:20 PM

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Nov 29, 2012 3:32 AM in response to tylerlovesapples

I notice all the titles are exactly the same length in your picture, which leads to me to ask if you are sure this isn't simply the end of the column as it goes into the next column? Do you see three full stops at the end of each title?

Like so:

User uploaded file


The ... indicates that the title extends beyond the column's end. Notice the area I have ringed. If you put the mouse over that dividing line, you should be able to click-and-drag the column to the width you want, thus showing more (or all) of the title.


If it isn't that, have you looked at the File/Get Info/Info/Name box to see what is actually typed in there? Again, if it's a really long title, you may have to put the cursor into the field and move the cursor to the end so that the title scrolls.


If the tilte in the Name box is truncated, that suggests that the Gracenote dadatbase that iTunes uses has only what you see. In the unlikely event that this is the case, there probably isn't much you can do about it other than type in the mssing information yourself.

Nov 29, 2012 3:55 AM in response to tylerlovesapples

I think you'll find your tracks have ID3v1 tags, or they could have both ID3v1 and ID3v2.x tags but iTunes has only read the data in the ID3v1 version. ID3v1 tags are limited to 30 characters for the song name, artist & album which would seem to correspond to your screenshot. Check the tracks out in MediaMonkey or a dedicated tag editor such as mp3tag to see if ID3v2.x tags are also present and populated. If so clear the ID3v1 tag so each file has a single ID3v2.x tag (preferably ID3v2.3) and then play in iTunes to reveal the additional information.


tt2

Nov 30, 2012 3:49 PM in response to the fiend

Haha ๐Ÿ™‚ I wish you were right, but I'm quite certain that's not it. I should've taken a snap shot with the column little wider. It seems to me that Gacenote's database is small when it comes to classical music...


The amount of songs I'm dealing with is a little over 1300 so typing the names in by hand would take a lot of time, so unless that's my only option I'm going to try and find an easier route.


Thankyou for your quick response by the way ๐Ÿ˜€

Only HALF of the name gets imported

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