iTunes on windows - is it pony?

[Mad Cyril]

I purchased an iPod classic for xMas and have been ripping Mrs. MC CD collection so she can listen to her music around the house.

iTunes seems to get confused with compilation albums and these often corrupt the track listings for previously ripped albums.

Also, some tracks which are by multiple artists (e.g. Peter Andre featuring Bubbler Ranks, Soup dragons featuring Junior Reid etc.) appear as standalone albums with a single track instead of as a track within the correct album

Should I manually organize my files rather than let iTunes do it or is there something I am missing? I should point out that being male I refuse to read the instructions.

Cheers.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I purchased an iPod classic for xMas and have been ripping Mrs. MC CD collection so she can listen to her music around the house.

iTunes seems to get confused with compilation albums and these often corrupt the track listings for previously ripped albums.

Also, some tracks which are by multiple artists (e.g. Peter Andre featuring Bubbler Ranks, Soup dragons featuring Junior Reid etc.) appear as standalone albums with a single track instead of as a track within the correct album

Should I manually organize my files rather than let iTunes do it or is there something I am missing? I should point out that being male I refuse to read the instructions.

Cheers.

Mackintosh and Microsoft........not good bed fellows

 

[Leeboy]

Manually organize it is my advice - that way you can edit the names of the albums & songs.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Let it do the auto naming, then if you know it's wrong, manually edit the ones you want to change!

 

[Napster]

Let it do the auto naming, then if you know it's wrong, manually edit the ones you want to change!

that's the best bet.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

that's the best bet.

I know, I speak from experience (plus getting stuff down from places like Limewire doesn't guarantee the quality of track info!)

 

[Cricko]

I know, I speak from experience (plus getting Girls Aloud and my favourite Doris Day tracks down from places like Limewire doesn't guarantee the quality of track info!)

Hmmmm:rolleyes:

 

[MK Shrimper]

Que Cera Cera

 

[Napster]

I know, I speak from experience (plus getting stuff down from places like Limewire doesn't guarantee the quality of track info!)

It's the old compilation CDs I have which need rejigging. And being a music geek I've reclassified the genres as well into Mod, 70s Funk, 80s Funk, Brit hip-hop, and so on.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Hmmmm:rolleyes:

I don't like to listen to Girls Aloud, just ogle a certain member of their party! :p

Don't try & get my musical snob tendencies angered.......... :D

 

[sufcintheprem]

Let it do the auto naming, then if you know it's wrong, manually edit the ones you want to change!

Yep, this is what I do too. The folder thing really screws with my MP3 player but you cna't have everything when you're using multi-company products. Well, yous hould be able to but most of the big players in the music industry are obstinate ****ers.

One other thing I would strongly recommend is changing your file types from Apple's "we're the only music company in the universe" AAC version or whatever they call it. I've never noticed any difference between this encoding and MP3 but as soon as you try and use AAC on anything else, you'll seee the problem.

You can always tell a dirty secret in software when they hide a fairly simple but sometimes important feature under Advanced and a separate tab under that in your preferences. In this case, it's Preferences, Advanced, Importing. MP3 Encoder at 192Kb should be enough I imagine.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

*Luddite alert*

I have iTunes on my computer, having bought an iPod (the battery of which has now given up on me). All my music which I've uploaded onto my computer is therefore stored on iTunes.

I'm quite taken with the idea of getting one of these phones that also acts as an mp3 player.

Can I load music from iTunes onto such a phone - or are the two formats completely incompatible?

:confused:

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Can I load music from iTunes onto such a phone - or are the two formats completely incompatible?

:confused:

Think you would need to convert the format of the saved tracks from AAC to MP3 (see previous comment above)!

Does the phone come with music software for your PC?

 

[Bluesmanager]

One thing I don't get - I have a music video playlist in my itunes (one of the automated ones). I tried to add a few music videos to itunes. Couldn't find them. Stupid thing.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Think you would need to convert the format of the saved tracks from AAC to MP3 (see previous comment above)!

Does the phone come with music software for your PC?

The music files on my computer seem to suggest they are "MP4" files...? How easy is it to convert?

I haven't got the phone yet, so the answer to that is... I'm not sure!

Matt

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

The music files on my computer seem to suggest they are "MP4" files...? How easy is it to convert?

I haven't got the phone yet, so the answer to that is... I'm not sure!

Matt

If they're MP4 I'd think you should be OK.
MP4 is the next generation after MP3.

 

[SUFC_Al]

The music files on my computer seem to suggest they are "MP4" files...? How easy is it to convert?

I haven't got the phone yet, so the answer to that is... I'm not sure!

Matt

I don't know if this will be any help but i recently got a Nokia 6300 with music playing capabilities and I had a CDROM with it which installed the music player for the phone and, although i don't use iTunes, the phone music player converts the file in to its own format making file movements easy.

So if your new phones comes with a CDROM you should be able to move files from any music file or player.

 

[Vange Shrimper]

I don't know if this will be any help but i recently got a Nokia 6300 with music playing capabilities and I had a CDROM with it which installed the music player for the phone and, although i don't use iTunes, the phone music player converts the file in to its own format making file movements easy.

So if your new phones comes with a CDROM you should be able to move files from any music file or player.

Sorry to go a bit off topic, but is that the same CD which enables you to transfer pictures etc to and from the phone to the computer?

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Sorry to go a bit off topic......

You're not qualified to divert threads, so stop it!

 

[SUFC_Al]

Sorry to go a bit off topic, but is that the same CD which enables you to transfer pictures etc to and from the phone to the computer?

it is indeed, the CDROM comes with quite a of handy stuff on it :)