it happens randomly and not straight after ive re-named it. everytime i open itunes i find random albums have gone back to their old names, (this is imported music from Cds and mp3s) like if an album is 'unknown album' and i re-name it and go ok, it will have the new name for a while but then ill open itunes later and it will be back to unkown album?
Windows 8
If these are ripped mp3s then a possibility is multiple embedded tags. iTunes works best with a single ID3v2.3 tag. With multiple tags it is not certain which it reads or which it updates, and any iOS device may choose differently. Sometimes iTunes will appear to accept an update and then read back original data at a later point. Once songs have the correct info. in iTunes you can use Convert ID3 Tags... None several times, then Convert ID3 Tags... v2.3. The process removes any embedded art but otherwise preserves the data that iTunes knows. You could use my script CreateFolderArt before and after to save and then restore the artwork.
tt2
thankyou ill try that, but these arnt jsut ripped mps it happens to all my music its just those it happens to most, and this is the same music ive always had but it only started changing them back after i updated to itunes 11 or whatever is the most recent one
For iTunes store purchases if you have iTunes in the Cloud enabled then sometimes iTunes will display the original store version of a track's tag rather than any changes you may have made to it.
Another potential issue is Windows Media Player. By default this will attempt to "correct" tag information and can in some cases be launched as a background process by a website. See Getting iTunes & Windows Media Player to play nicely for tips.
tt2
my music keeps re-setting to old info, eg: ive named an album and it randomly goes back to the old name it had, how do i stop this??
