Importing CDs in to iTunes
Hello all, I am importing hundreds of CDs in to iTunes. I am finding that some CDs are imported track by track and not as a complete album. I have selected the tracks to an album and gone in to the info section but could not find any to check to be part of a compilation or similar. Can anybody help here? Thanks as always. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Importing CDs in to iTunes
First of all, you should check each cd before you let it be imported. It's possible for iTunes to identify a cd incorrectly and also, the database may come up with several possibilitiies from which you have to choose. If you know that your cd is being misidentified, you can use cmd-i on all the tracks together and enter the correct information for the album manually before importing and also can do each of the tracks individually for a cd. Or you could wait until you have imported the cd and then select all the tracks to put the album information in. But if you wait until all the hundreds of cds have been imported, it will be a much more difficult job. I understand the problem somewhat as I have a slightly different but related one. I unfortunately didn't have the foresight to know that someday iTunes would come along. So several years before iTunes became accessible, before I even owned a Mac, I ripped all my cds and then gave the cds away to friends. That was okay except that iTunes, when I began using it, was not able to identify a lot of my ripped material correctly; apparently the id tag information was done differently. So to this day I don't have a lot of my music in iTunes because it would be too scrambled up and I don't have the time to spend straightening it out. Since you have original cds, as long as you proceed with your importing systematically, I would think you shouldn't have such a drastic problem. This is as much as i know and probably others on list will have more detailed advice. I would just say: Proceed with caution as you import each cd. Hth. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, I am importing hundreds of CDs in to iTunes. I am finding that some CDs are imported track by track and not as a complete album. I have selected the tracks to an album and gone in to the info section but could not find any to check to be part of a compilation or similar. Can anybody help here? Thanks as always. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Importing CDs in to iTunes
Thanks, I don't have any problems identifying the CDs it is iTunes not importing all CDs as one album but separate tracks. This only happens with a few albums. Max. On 24/11/2012, at 8:45 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, you should check each cd before you let it be imported. It's possible for iTunes to identify a cd incorrectly and also, the database may come up with several possibilitiies from which you have to choose. If you know that your cd is being misidentified, you can use cmd-i on all the tracks together and enter the correct information for the album manually before importing and also can do each of the tracks individually for a cd. Or you could wait until you have imported the cd and then select all the tracks to put the album information in. But if you wait until all the hundreds of cds have been imported, it will be a much more difficult job. I understand the problem somewhat as I have a slightly different but related one. I unfortunately didn't have the foresight to know that someday iTunes would come along. So several years before iTunes became accessible, before I even owned a Mac, I ripped all my cds and then gave the cds away to friends. That was okay except that iTunes, when I began using it, was not able to identify a lot of my ripped material correctly; apparently the id tag information was done differently. So to this day I don't have a lot of my music in iTunes because it would be too scrambled up and I don't have the time to spend straightening it out. Since you have original cds, as long as you proceed with your importing systematically, I would think you shouldn't have such a drastic problem. This is as much as i know and probably others on list will have more detailed advice. I would just say: Proceed with caution as you import each cd. Hth. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, I am importing hundreds of CDs in to iTunes. I am finding that some CDs are imported track by track and not as a complete album. I have selected the tracks to an album and gone in to the info section but could not find any to check to be part of a compilation or similar. Can anybody help here? Thanks as always. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Importing CDs in to iTunes
Well, doesn't this mean iTunes is not identifying the tracks in the cd as an album but only as the tracks? -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Thanks, I don't have any problems identifying the CDs it is iTunes not importing all CDs as one album but separate tracks. This only happens with a few albums. Max. On 24/11/2012, at 8:45 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, you should check each cd before you let it be imported. It's possible for iTunes to identify a cd incorrectly and also, the database may come up with several possibilitiies from which you have to choose. If you know that your cd is being misidentified, you can use cmd-i on all the tracks together and enter the correct information for the album manually before importing and also can do each of the tracks individually for a cd. Or you could wait until you have imported the cd and then select all the tracks to put the album information in. But if you wait until all the hundreds of cds have been imported, it will be a much more difficult job. I understand the problem somewhat as I have a slightly different but related one. I unfortunately didn't have the foresight to know that someday iTunes would come along. So several years before iTunes became accessible, before I even owned a Mac, I ripped all my cds and then gave the cds away to friends. That was okay except that iTunes, when I began using it, was not able to identify a lot of my ripped material correctly; apparently the id tag information was done differently. So to this day I don't have a lot of my music in iTunes because it would be too scrambled up and I don't have the time to spend straightening it out. Since you have original cds, as long as you proceed with your importing systematically, I would think you shouldn't have such a drastic problem. This is as much as i know and probably others on list will have more detailed advice. I would just say: Proceed with caution as you import each cd. Hth. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, I am importing hundreds of CDs in to iTunes. I am finding that some CDs are imported track by track and not as a complete album. I have selected the tracks to an album and gone in to the info section but could not find any to check to be part of a compilation or similar. Can anybody help here? Thanks as always. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Importing CDs in to iTunes
Yes, what I was trying to say was the correct name comes up for the CD before I import it. But although it shows the album it imports it as separate tracks. Max. On 24/11/2012, at 8:54 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: Well, doesn't this mean iTunes is not identifying the tracks in the cd as an album but only as the tracks? -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Thanks, I don't have any problems identifying the CDs it is iTunes not importing all CDs as one album but separate tracks. This only happens with a few albums. Max. On 24/11/2012, at 8:45 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, you should check each cd before you let it be imported. It's possible for iTunes to identify a cd incorrectly and also, the database may come up with several possibilitiies from which you have to choose. If you know that your cd is being misidentified, you can use cmd-i on all the tracks together and enter the correct information for the album manually before importing and also can do each of the tracks individually for a cd. Or you could wait until you have imported the cd and then select all the tracks to put the album information in. But if you wait until all the hundreds of cds have been imported, it will be a much more difficult job. I understand the problem somewhat as I have a slightly different but related one. I unfortunately didn't have the foresight to know that someday iTunes would come along. So several years before iTunes became accessible, before I even owned a Mac, I ripped all my cds and then gave the cds away to friends. That was okay except that iTunes, when I began using it, was not able to identify a lot of my ripped material correctly; apparently the id tag information was done differently. So to this day I don't have a lot of my music in iTunes because it would be too scrambled up and I don't have the time to spend straightening it out. Since you have original cds, as long as you proceed with your importing systematically, I would think you shouldn't have such a drastic problem. This is as much as i know and probably others on list will have more detailed advice. I would just say: Proceed with caution as you import each cd. Hth. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, I am importing hundreds of CDs in to iTunes. I am finding that some CDs are imported track by track and not as a complete album. I have selected the tracks to an album and gone in to the info section but could not find any to check to be part of a compilation or similar. Can anybody help here? Thanks as always. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Importing CDs in to iTunes
Hi there! If you are selecting all of the tracks of one album then select the options tab and in that window you will find part of a compilation and like part of a gabbles album! And if you only pick one track the option to do that is in the Info tab just after genre! Hth Colin On 23 Nov 2012, at 23:15, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Yes, what I was trying to say was the correct name comes up for the CD before I import it. But although it shows the album it imports it as separate tracks. Max. On 24/11/2012, at 8:54 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: Well, doesn't this mean iTunes is not identifying the tracks in the cd as an album but only as the tracks? -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Thanks, I don't have any problems identifying the CDs it is iTunes not importing all CDs as one album but separate tracks. This only happens with a few albums. Max. On 24/11/2012, at 8:45 AM, Cheryl Homiak cahom...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, you should check each cd before you let it be imported. It's possible for iTunes to identify a cd incorrectly and also, the database may come up with several possibilities from which you have to choose. If you know that your cd is being misidentified, you can use cmd-i on all the tracks together and enter the correct information for the album manually before importing and also can do each of the tracks individually for a cd. Or you could wait until you have imported the cd and then select all the tracks to put the album information in. But if you wait until all the hundreds of cds have been imported, it will be a much more difficult job. I understand the problem somewhat as I have a slightly different but related one. I unfortunately didn't have the foresight to know that someday iTunes would come along. So several years before iTunes became accessible, before I even owned a Mac, I ripped all my cds and then gave the cds away to friends. That was okay except that iTunes, when I began using it, was not able to identify a lot of my ripped material correctly; apparently the id tag information was done differently. So to this day I don't have a lot of my music in iTunes because it would be too scrambled up and I don't have the time to spend straightening it out. Since you have original cds, as long as you proceed with your importing systematically, I would think you shouldn't have such a drastic problem. This is as much as i know and probably others on list will have more detailed advice. I would just say: Proceed with caution as you import each cd. Hth. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello all, I am importing hundreds of CDs in to iTunes. I am finding that some CDs are imported track by track and not as a complete album. I have selected the tracks to an album and gone in to the info section but could not find any to check to be part of a compilation or similar. Can anybody help here? Thanks as always. Max. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email
