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Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem

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On 2/8/15, 19:50, David Empson wrote:
> Robert Peirce<bob@peirce-family.com>  wrote:
>
>> I discover I have a CD where the tracks play in the order shown on the
>> cover but when loaded into iTunes the names of the 5ty-9th track move up
>> one.  That is if the tracks actually played A, B, C, D, E, they would
>> appear in iTunes as B, C, D, E, A. I had to manually rename them so the
>> names would match the tunes.
>
> The most likely explanation is that the online Gracenote database of CDs
> (or whichever online database iTunes is using these days) has the
> details wrong for that CD, so iTunes ended up with the wrong track
> names. It might also be that there are two variants of the CD which have
> the tracks in a different order, and Gracenote happens to have the track
> names in the order of the other variant.
>
>> I first tried renaming the files on HD but it turns out the track names
>> are stored in the music file itself.  The HD names were ignored.
>
> That's standard for iTunes. It doesn't care what the files are called.
> All textual information about tracks comes from ID3 tags stored inside
> the file. Edit the track name in iTunes, e.g. via Get Info or by
> clicking on the track name.
>
>> I don't know how common this is.  I have hundreds of CDs in iTunes and
>> this is the first time I noticed it, but I haven't played everything and
>> I usually don't check what is playing against what iTunes says is playing.
>>
>> Has anybody seen this before or might it be a one off?
>
> Probably a one-off for that particular CD.
>
> I may have encountered this once or twice in the process of importing
> 500+ CDs into iTunes over the years. If so, it was so long ago I can't
> recall the specifics.
>


I think my experience differs from yours. I keep my music collection for 
export from iTunes to my iPod Classic, and I have a lot of classical 
music. The GraceNote-downloaded track titles often have misspellings in 
foreign languages, which I am qualified to correct for my own use. I 
find that corrected track names and other corrections are reflected not 
only in iTunes but on the track names and files in my iTunes Media 
Folder kept on the peripheral disk I designate for it.


This might make it impossible to access those tracks in the cloud, but I 
prefer to have the info I have specified to access on my iPod rather 
than take what the cloud would decide to give me. I also keep an 
optional alternative iTunes for travel with mostly videos. I have never 
noticed a problem with misordered tracks, but occasionally a track 
dropped in the course of upgrades has to be re-imported.


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In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2015-02-08 18:52 -0500
  Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-09 00:19 +0000
  Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-02-08 19:32 -0500
    Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-09 02:45 +0000
      Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-02-09 09:08 -0500
  Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-02-09 13:50 +1300
    Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem AV3 <arvimide@earthlink.net> - 2015-02-08 22:00 -0500
      Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-02-09 16:23 +1300
        Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2015-02-09 08:04 -0500
          Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-02-09 13:01 -0500
        Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-02-09 10:51 -0700
          Re: In iTunes but not really an iTunes problem dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-02-10 09:40 +1300

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