Hi Will,
On Oct 24, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Will Lomas wrote:
so how do i join tracks on a cd after doing one already?
as the join option is unjoin so it is missleading when you put a new
disk in
For each new CD that you want to import with joined tracks, select all
(Command-A) tracks in the songs table for the CD after interacting,
then use the Advanced menu option to join tracks (VO-m to navigate to
the menu bar; press "A" to go to the "Advanced menu"; arrow down;
press "J" to go to the "Join CD Tracks" option). After you selected
the join option you'll be back in the songs table. Stop interacting
and VO-down (you'll get a summary of the number of songs, time, and
size on the audio CD), then VO-right to the "Import CD" button and
press it (VO-space).
After you've finished importing you can go back to the Advanced menu
and unjoin the tracks. I'm confused as to why you see the "Unjoin"
option on a new CD, since "Unjoin CD tracks" should appear as an
option in the Advanced menu only if you have inserted a CD for which
you previously selected "Join CD tracks". New CDs that have never
been inserted into your computer should not have an "Unjoin CD tracks"
option.
As described in more detail yesterday, if you have selected and played
other tracks in iTunes while the joined CD was importing, you may have
to click back into the Songs table for the CD and Select all again
(Command-A) before going to the Advanced menu and using the "Unjoin CD
tracks". I don't have to do this (select all again) if I simply want
to unjoin tracks after importing, and I haven't been working and
selecting in other apps or playing and selecting tracks in iTunes
while the importing of joined tracks was proceeding.
Cheers,
Esther
On 24 Oct 2008, at 18:09, Esther wrote:
Hi Will and others,
The "Join CD tracks" setting is only remembered for a particular
CD. It does not apply to new CDs that you insert. You do need to
unjoin the tracks if you want to access the tracks individually
again for importing. You can still navigate to and play individual
tracks in the Songs table for the CD -- the joining only applies to
the way the CD is ripped.
As I posted yesterday, iTunes keeps track of status information
like whether tracks are joined and what the current tagging
information is for your CDs in a local file named "CD Info.cidb"
that is located in the Library/Preferences folder of your user
account. (See that post for more information and a link to the
Apple knowledge base article on "How iTunes remembers audio CDs".)
Unless you are using some other setting for iTunes 8.01 that I
don't know about, I don't find any way to always join tracks on
every new CD that is inserted. I just tried inserting a CD,
joining tracks, ejecting, and inserting a new CD to check this.
Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:10 AM, Will Lomas wrote:
Hello to the person who wanted to know, if joining tracks always
occured each new cd?
yes it does unless you select, unjoin cd tracks from the i tunes
advanced menu so that all tracks of a disk become one file each
again
regards WIll
