I Tunes Question

[brewerjamie15]

Most of you know that I'm not too good with computers. As a matter of fact, I think a tree is better than I am.

 

I'm trying to load a whole boat load of CD's onto my Itunes because I can't get the 8-tracks to fit into that slot.

I put in the Beatles 'Abby Road', and I tunes and my computer did not identify it. It just listed as "artist" or something and lists the songs as tracks.

 

I'm not sure how to correct this.

 

Also-

 

I'm up to around 350 songs or more which is using approximately 1.25 GB of memory. Is this a lot for music? I'm going to about double that if I get everything on there I want.

[NeedMoreFans]

I'm not sure about the second question, but for the first one...

 

Are you connected to the internet? ITunes uses an online database to determine what CD you have put in your computer (I think).

[Roscoe Chill]

You'll just have to right click on "Song 1" and so on and hit Get Info and manually type in the information.

[ccbrew]

Another iTunes question: Anyone know of a program that will 'fix' song/album information? I'm borderline OCD when it comes to getting the appropriate letters capitalized, album covers, correct track numbers..etc. But doing it manually is quite the painstaking process..

[jlau20]

Same here cc, I always try to fix it as I import CD's though, so it doesn't seem like as much of a hassle doing it as I go along.

[ttsather]

Yeah, iTunes uses an online database to automatically label tracks that you upload, but it does so based on some sort of encoding on the CD and not by the tracks themselves, so if you have a particular CD that isn't in their database (especially one that may have been produced several years ago) there's a good chance you'll have to manually enter information.

 

A tip to make it quicker if you're doing a whole album is to highlight all the tracks and then right-click to Get Info and it will allow you to change all the tracks to the album and artist name that you need in one shot. Though, specific track names will need to be entered manually.

 

As for the second question, at least among the college crowd that I hang around with, that amount of music is not large at all. I have some friends with 10,000+ tracks that take up huge portions of their hard drives. I'd say the average among my friends and those people that I've tapped into in coffee houses and such is maybe 1200-2500 songs.

[gypcasino]

Yeah, iTunes uses an online database to automatically label tracks that you upload, but it does so based on some sort of encoding on the CD and not by the tracks themselves, so if you have a particular CD that isn't in their database (especially one that may have been produced several years ago) there's a good chance you'll have to manually enter information.

I've ripped somewhere around 1,000 CDs and I could probably count on one hand the number that weren't in the database. Gracenote is the name of the company with the database that iTunes uses. I'm not sure how the application exactly works as far as recognition goes but I believe if you rip some obscure CD that's not in the database and then manually input the artist, album title, and song title, the database will then be updated going forward for anyone else who rips the same CD.

[Katuluu]

Have you tried asking a squirrel Jamie?