Bulk Edit in iTunes

I had this same problem, then when I scrolled through my music collection, I noted that my voice memos had been included in my music collection. I deleted the voice memos, then selected all songs for a bulk edit and had no issues. Might be worth double-checking your music list to see whether this has happened for you also?

Same problem. In my case, I'm getting it in a smart playlist that's DEFINED as Media Kind = Podcast. (And which I'd like to define as Audiobook, but perhaps that's not even an option anymore!)

As an added bonus, when I Get Info for one podcast, and then click the next button, iTunes hangs and I have to Force Quit it. (Well, maybe it'll resolve itself after 15 minutes, but that's the longest I've waited so far.)

The fun I had yesterday playing with iOS 7 has quickly become a distant memory as everything involving podcasts - the main thing I even use my iPhone for! - has fallen apart.

I may have figured this out, on my system at least: everything in my playlist is "Media Kind: Podcast". BUT some of them have that in black, and I can change the Media Kind. Others have that option grayed out, so I cannot change the Media Kind (I think these are podcasts that were initially downloaded on my iOS device rather than the computer, and then copied from the iPhone to iTunes). It's when I include one of the "Grayed out Media Kind" podcast episodes that I can't bulk edit.

The way I managed to find the file that was causing the trouble: "Get Info" for two items. It works. "OK", "Shift + down arrow", "Cmd + I", repeat until you get the error message, with a selection that's one item larger every time. Of course my playlist was only 30 items long - if you're dealing with a whole library, I wouldn't recommend this approach!

Hmm. This is really weird - the greyed-out issue describes and perhaps explains one mismatch, but I've got another pair that makes no sense at all:

• Both files are "Media Kind: Music", both with black, and easily changeable.
• Both in iTunes Media/Music folder.
• Both AAC audio files.
• Both with file suffixes m4a (and yes, that capitalization).

Yet I'm unable to bulk edit the two of them. Even if I change both of them, separately, to Audiobooks, they still can't be editted together. The only difference I can see in the Summary file is "Encoded with" (iTunes v6.0.1 versus v6.0.2).

As a side issue: when you Get Info for one track in iTunes, are you able to use the Previous or Next buttons? My system hangs when I try do that, and eventually I have to Force Quit iTunes.

I have a same problem, hopefully it will get fixed again.

In some very old version of iTunes (when iPod Video was out) there was no chance to batch edit videos to get them all set for TV Show or something, this is almost the same thing.

Actually the whole iTunes 11 is not that good anymore under Windows 😟 - if I exit the program when minimized, the next time I open it, it starts in a small window...

This seems to indicatethey need to do subaccounts like Netflix.

I have just changed all my podcasts from media kind "podcast" to media kind "music" as I want them to be on a playlist on my iPod.

Now when I try to batch alter them all, it kicks up the same message.

I have scrolled through every single file and they are in the same folder, and have media kind all the same as "music"

Really confusing!!

The blog Kirkville has posted information about a new script from Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes: apparently it can address this problem.

I haven't tried it out yet.

It does sound like Apple needs to fix 11.1 in several areas. Podcast sync,Multiple Item Editing and stability. I sure wish they would hurry, I haven't got all day!! LOL. But I will keep digging for a fix.

We need to at least email Apple, but I'm sure they know about the problem. I just wish they would fix it.