Can you disable info autofill in iTunes?

[snerkler]

When I'm editing the track/album details in iTunes it autofills, quite often wrongly, and it can sometimes be a bit of a hassle to get it to fill in with what you want. Is there a way to turn off this feature?

Cheers

[GGJstudios]

Originally Posted by snerkler

When I'm editing the track/album details in iTunes it autofills, quite often wrongly, and it can sometimes be a bit of a hassle to get it to fill in with what you want. Is there a way to turn off this feature?

I don't know of any way to turn off autofill, but that's a good thing. It helps avoid multiple variations of the same artist, album artist, album name, etc. Autofill suggestions come from existing data in your library, so if you're getting a suggestion you feel shouldn't be there, it's because at least one track in your library has that information. I've used it to identify and correct spelling and capitalization errors on some tracks.

[snerkler]

Originally Posted by GGJstudios

I don't know of any way to turn off autofill, but that's a good thing. It helps avoid multiple variations of the same artist, album artist, album name, etc. Autofill suggestions come from existing data in your library, so if you're getting a suggestion you feel shouldn't be there, it's because at least one track in your library has that information. I've used it to identify and correct spelling and capitalization errors on some tracks.

Whilst I agree with most of this, quite often you're typing one thing and it fills it in with another correct name, but not the name you want. Every time you retype it it puts in the name you don't want. I either have to copy and paste from somewhere, or put in a hyphen or something and then go back and delete it when I've finished

[GGJstudios]

Originally Posted by snerkler

Whilst I agree with most of this, quite often you're typing one thing and it fills it in with another correct name, but not the name you want. Every time you retype it it puts in the name you don't want. I either have to copy and paste from somewhere, or put in a hyphen or something and then go back and delete it when I've finished

Yes, it can be a pain sometimes. Copy/paste is the best workaround I've found. Of course, I've used scripts for a lot of that clean-up and renaming process, which helps in many cases.

[snerkler]

Originally Posted by GGJstudios

Yes, it can be a pain sometimes. Copy/paste is the best workaround I've found. Of course, I've used scripts for a lot of that clean-up and renaming process, which helps in many cases.

Ok thanks

[GGJstudios]

Originally Posted by snerkler

Ok thanks

In case you aren't already aware of it, Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes is a great resource for managing your iTunes tags and files.

Here are a few scripts that I've found particularly useful:

Append To Selected Tag v1.1
Artist to Album Artist v2.0
Clipboard to Lyrics Scripts v1.0.1
Clipboard to Multi-Tracks Lyrics v1.0
File Renamer
Filenames to Song Names
Gather Up the One-Hits v2.3
List MIAs v1.2
Move Files To Folder... v1.0
No Lyrics to Playlist v2.0
Proper English Title Capitalization
Remove n Characters From Front or Back v3.0
Replay Last Bit v2.0
Search/Replace Tag Text
This Tag, That Tag Scripts v2.0
Track Parser v1.3.1
Tracks Without Artwork to Playlist v3.3

[snerkler]

Originally Posted by GGJstudios

In case you aren't already aware of it, Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes is a great resource for managing your iTunes tags and files.

Here are a few scripts that I've found particularly useful:

Append To Selected Tag v1.1
Artist to Album Artist v2.0
Clipboard to Lyrics Scripts v1.0.1
Clipboard to Multi-Tracks Lyrics v1.0
File Renamer
Filenames to Song Names
Gather Up the One-Hits v2.3
List MIAs v1.2
Move Files To Folder... v1.0
No Lyrics to Playlist v2.0
Proper English Title Capitalization
Remove n Characters From Front or Back v3.0
Replay Last Bit v2.0
Search/Replace Tag Text
This Tag, That Tag Scripts v2.0
Track Parser v1.3.1
Tracks Without Artwork to Playlist v3.3

Thanks for these, much appreciated. I don't know a lot about scripts though so need to do some research on this first before I start using those and mess everything up