finding mp3 imports in iTunes
How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- 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: finding mp3 imports in iTunes
Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album CB On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote: How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- 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. -- Ż\_(?)_/Ż -- 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: finding mp3 imports in iTunes
Speaking of this, I am having trouble editing information for imports. I try to modify the fields in info, and I receive an error sound. Christine On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album CB On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote: How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- 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. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- 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: finding mp3 imports in iTunes
Chris, turns out the files I was importing were corrupted. Even though, I thought I'd find the corrupted files in iTunes. I'm assuming it was the corruption factor that did something to make the files invisible - maybe they were'nt actually imported. - Original Message - From: Chris Blouch To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 4:50 PM Subject: Re: finding mp3 imports in iTunes Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album CB On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote: How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- 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. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- 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: finding mp3 imports in iTunes
christine, it's really not nice to hyjack a topic, ya know. It's simple enough to just start a new thread. It's not just for me, people searching the archives will get the hyjacked thread to. hyjacking is when you change the direction of a message thread to something other than the origional topic. . - Original Message - From: Christine Grassman To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 4:58 PM Subject: Re: finding mp3 imports in iTunes Speaking of this, I am having trouble editing information for imports. I try to modify the fields in info, and I receive an error sound. Christine On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album CB On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote: How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- 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. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- 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: finding mp3 imports in iTunes
Hi Phil and Others, You can always find items that you add to iTunes, even with no tag information, by selecting the Recenly Added smart playlist in the sources list. Then use VO-J or else navigate with your arrow keys to the list of tracks, which will appear in the chronological order they were added to iTunes. Use VO-J again to jump back to the smart playlist in the sources list. The Recently Added smart playlist contains all tracks added to iTunes in the last two weeks that are not flagged as podcasts. You can modify the criteria in the rules section to change this (e.g. to make this tracks added in the last day, or over a specific date range) by using the context menu (VO-Shift-M) when focused on this smart playlist to choose the option to edit the smart playlist. Alternatively, you can create your own smart playlist based on date added and any tag information you may have. You can also identify the untagged tracks by pressing space bar to play/pause tracks in your smart playlist, then arrow down to the next and use space bar to play/pause the next track. Then you can select a bunch of these tracks by holding down your shift key while you arrow down through the group you want, and do a Command-I (get info) to edit the tag fields for album and artist. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album CB On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote: How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- 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: finding mp3 imports in iTunes
As usual, Esther, your clear, concise, exceedingly helpful, and professional response is deeply appreciated. :) Christine On Nov 26, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote: Hi Phil and Others, You can always find items that you add to iTunes, even with no tag information, by selecting the Recenly Added smart playlist in the sources list. Then use VO-J or else navigate with your arrow keys to the list of tracks, which will appear in the chronological order they were added to iTunes. Use VO-J again to jump back to the smart playlist in the sources list. The Recently Added smart playlist contains all tracks added to iTunes in the last two weeks that are not flagged as podcasts. You can modify the criteria in the rules section to change this (e.g. to make this tracks added in the last day, or over a specific date range) by using the context menu (VO-Shift-M) when focused on this smart playlist to choose the option to edit the smart playlist. Alternatively, you can create your own smart playlist based on date added and any tag information you may have. You can also identify the untagged tracks by pressing space bar to play/pause tracks in your smart playlist, then arrow down to the next and use space bar to play/pause the next track. Then you can select a bunch of these tracks by holding down your shift key while you arrow down through the group you want, and do a Command-I (get info) to edit the tag fields for album and artist. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album CB On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote: How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- 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: finding mp3 imports in iTunes
If they were imported they would be harder to find without an artist and album. If you arrange your library according to the date added the most recently added files will be either at the bottom or the top in your music library. You do this by getting on the date added column and doing vokeys-c to make sure you are on the right column and then doing vo-shift-backslash if you want to order by that column. You may just be able to look down the column to find the right date without rearranging anything. If you don't have a date added in the music browser, do cmd-j for the viewing options and check the date added box and then press ok or just press return. If you aren't in the music browser view, you change this by doing vokeys-m and going over to the view column and changing to this; there might be a quicker way to change to that view but I can't think of it right now. Before I figured this out, I had quite a few entries in my library I didn't know about since the album and artist were blank. 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 26, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: Chris, turns out the files I was importing were corrupted. Even though, I thought I'd find the corrupted files in iTunes. I'm assuming it was the corruption factor that did something to make the files invisible - maybe they were'nt actually imported. - Original Message - From: Chris Blouch To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 4:50 PM Subject: Re: finding mp3 imports in iTunes Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album CB On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote: How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- 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. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- 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: finding mp3 imports in iTunes
Oh yeah, that's true. I had forgotten this because sometimes when i did this the items were not recently added. Sorry for making it complicated! -- 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 26, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote: Hi Phil and Others, You can always find items that you add to iTunes, even with no tag information, by selecting the Recenly Added smart playlist in the sources list. Then use VO-J or else navigate with your arrow keys to the list of tracks, which will appear in the chronological order they were added to iTunes. Use VO-J again to jump back to the smart playlist in the sources list. The Recently Added smart playlist contains all tracks added to iTunes in the last two weeks that are not flagged as podcasts. You can modify the criteria in the rules section to change this (e.g. to make this tracks added in the last day, or over a specific date range) by using the context menu (VO-Shift-M) when focused on this smart playlist to choose the option to edit the smart playlist. Alternatively, you can create your own smart playlist based on date added and any tag information you may have. You can also identify the untagged tracks by pressing space bar to play/pause tracks in your smart playlist, then arrow down to the next and use space bar to play/pause the next track. Then you can select a bunch of these tracks by holding down your shift key while you arrow down through the group you want, and do a Command-I (get info) to edit the tag fields for album and artist. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album CB On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote: How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- 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: finding mp3 imports in iTunes
Hi Cheryl, Been there, done that grin. Sometimes I want to find imported items in iTunes that were not recently added, but which may have problematic tagging, and I find it easiest to use the Recently Added smart playlist but just edit it to temporarily change the date added in the rules section from 2 weeks to 4 weeks, or 2 months, etc. That's why I added the comments about moving to the Recently Added smart playlist in the sources list, bringing up the context menu with VO-Shift-M, and selecting Edit smart playlist in the menu. You only need to arrow over to the rules section and interact, then navigate to the first rule that is Date added in the last 2 weeks. You can just type a different number in the text box to make this 4 weeks, or you can VO-space on the pop up button for weeks and change this to months or days. Or you can do any combination of the above and then press the OK button (or just press the return key) to have your new rules take effect. There's another way to make finding untagged tracks easier, and that's to use the column browser in combination with your Recently Added smart playlist to find entries that you need to tag. While focused on the Recently Added smart playlist in the sources list, navigate to the iTunes menu bar to the View menu (VO-M or Control-F2 to the menu bar, then press v), arrow down, press c to move to the Column browser then right arrow to the submenu and arrow down to any entries you want displayed in the column browser, such as Artists or Albums. (You'll have to navigate to this sub-menu each time you want to check or uncheck any of the selections.) I have the options for Artists, Albums, and Genres checked, along with view mode on top, which used to be the default setup in iTunes before version 8, but this is entirely optional. Now, when I select the Recently Added smart playlist I can also toggle the column browser between show and hide modes with Command-B. The column browser adds a set of columns for my checked selections of Artists and Albums that appears before the tracks in the songs table. If I navigate to Albums and select Unknown Album, then only the tracks in my Recently Added smart playlist that don't have album tags will show up in the songs table, and I can select any of them for tagging. If I only added one album, I can select all (with Command-A) and then do a Command-I (get info) to edit their tag fields. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 26, 2012, at 15:07, Cheryl Homiak wrote: Oh yeah, that's true. I had forgotten this because sometimes when i did this the items were not recently added. Sorry for making it complicated! -- 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 26, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote: Hi Phil and Others, You can always find items that you add to iTunes, even with no tag information, by selecting the Recenly Added smart playlist in the sources list. Then use VO-J or else navigate with your arrow keys to the list of tracks, which will appear in the chronological order they were added to iTunes. Use VO-J again to jump back to the smart playlist in the sources list. The Recently Added smart playlist contains all tracks added to iTunes in the last two weeks that are not flagged as podcasts. You can modify the criteria in the rules section to change this (e.g. to make this tracks added in the last day, or over a specific date range) by using the context menu (VO-Shift-M) when focused on this smart playlist to choose the option to edit the smart playlist. Alternatively, you can create your own smart playlist based on date added and any tag information you may have. You can also identify the untagged tracks by pressing space bar to play/pause tracks in your smart playlist, then arrow down to the next and use space bar to play/pause the next track. Then you can select a bunch of these tracks by holding down your shift key while you arrow down through the group you want, and do a Command-I (get info) to edit the tag fields for album and artist. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album CB On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote: How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them anywhere in my iTunes library. This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To
