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Having trouble with iTunes

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Snoopy5

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Mar 27, 2008
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I've been loading my music into iTunes but when it asks me if i would like to upload my music and i say yes it ends up being displayed as "Track 1..Track 2.. etc" instead of having the name of the song, artist and title.

Can anybody help me out because it is taking me forever to upload my music???

Thanks :D
 
Where are you trying to upload your music to? iTunes won't upload music anywhere. Are you talking about getting track names from CDDB? A little more clarity may help.
 
If you're talking about ripping CDs, then go to preferences -> General -> Automatically retrieve CD track names... should be checked.

If you're talking about importing songs that are already in MP3 or M4A format from somewhere else, then iTunes uses the ID3 tag data -- if there's no legible metadata in the song, it gets imported without any metadata.
 
and I believe you must be connected to the internet in order to retrieve info from CDs when you rip them.
 
I'm uploading my music into iTunes.

i don't understand what CDDB means



Sky Blue said:
Where are you trying to upload your music to? iTunes won't upload music anywhere. Are you talking about getting track names from CDDB? A little more clarity may help.
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All of the settings are correct

I am taking all of my cd's and uploading them into iTunes..

mkrishnan said:
If you're talking about ripping CDs, then go to preferences -> General -> Automatically retrieve CD track names... should be checked.

If you're talking about importing songs that are already in MP3 or M4A format from somewhere else, then iTunes uses the ID3 tag data -- if there's no legible metadata in the song, it gets imported without any metadata.
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Snoop, are your CDs normal, commercial CDs, or "mix" CDs? A typical commercial CD will rip into iTunes and show the individual track names before you confirm you want to import the CD.

On the other hand, if the CD is a mix or homebrew CD, the CDDB database cannot identify the songs, leading to the Track 1, Track 2 dilemma. Also, if the CDs are REALLY obscure, like popular "Polynesian War Chants" or something along those lines, the CDDB database will not recognize the CD and default to the numbered track identifiers.

Good Luck. Filling all of that stuff manually in is a pain.
 
Snoopy5 said:
i don't understand what CDDB means
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Along the lines of what TJBlue said... CDDB is a database that is used to fill in track information. What it uses is data is the exact length (in samples, not seconds, I think) of each track on the CD. This acts more or less as a thumbprint -- very few commercial CDs have the same set of track lengths. Even if you copy an album, it has the same track lengths and it still gets recognized. But it's only the collection of lengths across the whole album that works -- so when you try to rip something other than the commercial albums, like a mix CD, the set of track lengths doesn't match anything in the database and you don't get names.

But that's the last detailed post I'm making here. Everyone here is giving you lots of help and you give one line, nonsensical responses. If you want any more help, provide some actual details about what you're doing.
 
They are regular cd's from different stores. Non of them are ripped cd's

TJRiver said:
Snoop, are your CDs normal, commercial CDs, or "mix" CDs? A typical commercial CD will rip into iTunes and show the individual track names before you confirm you want to import the CD.

On the other hand, if the CD is a mix or homebrew CD, the CDDB database cannot identify the songs, leading to the Track 1, Track 2 dilemma. Also, if the CDs are REALLY obscure, like popular "Polynesian War Chants" or something along those lines, the CDDB database will not recognize the CD and default to the numbered track identifiers.

Good Luck. Filling all of that stuff manually in is a pain.
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