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adjusting volume on a single track ghosted.

I go to "Get Info"and try to adjust the volume on a single song but it is ghosted and i cant adjust it?

Inspiron 15-OTHER, Windows 8

Posted on Feb 28, 2015 6:43 PM

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Posted on Feb 28, 2015 7:08 PM

Your media files are probably read-only (the "ghosting" of volume adjust definitely happens when a media file has that setting in Windows). To fix this:


  • In Windows Explorer, right-click on the folder that contains the songs that you can't adjust the volume on and select Properties
  • You'll see an editor like this:
    User uploaded file
  • Click on the Read-only box so that its clear, then click Apply.
  • When you get this prompt:
    User uploaded file
    leave the "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files" choice enabled, and click OK.


You should then be able to go back into iTunes and adjust the volume as normal.


Note that you can apply this globally to everything in your library if all your media is in a common "parent" folder - just go to that folder and apply the procedure above.


There is one other possibility which could result in the same symptoms, which is that Windows permissions settings are preventing changes being made to the file(s). If the method described above, follow the procedure described in turingtest2's notes on Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.

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Feb 28, 2015 7:08 PM in response to Grendel756

Your media files are probably read-only (the "ghosting" of volume adjust definitely happens when a media file has that setting in Windows). To fix this:


  • In Windows Explorer, right-click on the folder that contains the songs that you can't adjust the volume on and select Properties
  • You'll see an editor like this:
    User uploaded file
  • Click on the Read-only box so that its clear, then click Apply.
  • When you get this prompt:
    User uploaded file
    leave the "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files" choice enabled, and click OK.


You should then be able to go back into iTunes and adjust the volume as normal.


Note that you can apply this globally to everything in your library if all your media is in a common "parent" folder - just go to that folder and apply the procedure above.


There is one other possibility which could result in the same symptoms, which is that Windows permissions settings are preventing changes being made to the file(s). If the method described above, follow the procedure described in turingtest2's notes on Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows.

adjusting volume on a single track ghosted.

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