Does Apple even know about this? It's always been there.

One of my most hated things about iTunes is how it will hack up song names.

If you happen to have "Create filenames with track number" selected, it keeps re-writing filenames in an infinite loop.
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I've lost so many hours of organization (years ago) that I've just kind of given up by now, but I see that still... years after introducing iTunes on Windows, the same bug keeps happening.

If you have a song name longer than around 36 characters, it will show up in iTunes, until you play it or do a get info... once you've selected the song, it truncates all characters after 36. This is really frustrating, especially when you have the issue of the infinite track #s being added, as you see above.

So mainly, my question is: Does Apple even know about this?

If so or not, how do I make them aware?

Posted on Jan 15, 2007 3:53 PM

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Jan 16, 2007 3:40 PM in response to Mister Beefy

So this will keep it from occurring again?
On the songs you fix, it won't occur.
If you convert other songs to MP3 with a different program and it uses v1, those songs will be may be messed up and you 'll have to convert them to ID3v2.

My old IDv1 info is totally gone though, right?
It shouldn't be gone. iTunes will not delete the info. It will simply put it into the correct format.

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Does Apple even know about this? It's always been there.

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